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Title: SAT-Hub: Smart and Accessible Transportation Hub for Assistive Navigation and Facility Management.
The goal of the proposed project is to transform a large transportation hub into a smart and accessible hub (SAT-Hub), with minimal infrastructure change. The societal need is significant, especially impactful for people in great need, such as those who are blind and visually impaired (BVI) or with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), as well as those unfamiliar with metropolitan areas. With our inter-disciplinary background in urban systems, sensing, AI and data analytics, accessibility, and paratransit and assistive services, our solution is a hu-man-centric system approach that integrates facility modeling, mobile navigation, and user interface designs. We leverage several transportation facili-ties in the heart of New York City and throughout the State of New Jersey as testbeds for ensuring the relevance of the research and a smooth transition to real world applications.
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1827505 1737533
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10185779
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Harvard CRCS Workshop on AI for Social Good
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National Science Foundation
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