Braille Signs for Public Transport from Hillmont Braille Signs

All Australian providers of public transport services must comply with the sign component of the Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport Act.

The Transport Standards are designed to help people with disabilities such as:

the mobility impaired
people with a vision or hearing impairment
parents with prams
the frail elderly

Other transport facilities available throughout Australia:

Braille timetables and large format timetables are available on request.

Tactile ground surface indicators are installed at all new infrastructures. These include tactile hazard indicators and tactile guide paths or directional indicators.

Tactile hazard indicators at the edge of most train platforms to ensure your safety.
Modification to obstructions such as rubbish bins, pay phones and passenger information displays to make them easily detectable for cane users.
Bright yellow hand rails are provided on buses and trains to make them easier to see.
Audio announcements via the longline public address system at train stations provides timely arrival and departure information.
TIC Boxes have been installed at many train stations and provide audio information about train arrivals and departures.

Hillmont Braille Signs can provide you with signs to suit your requirements and work with you to develop a solution that complies.

Well designed and installed signage will mean that anyone with a visual impairment can access your services more effectively.

Hillmont Braille Signs is one of the most successful and innovative manufacturers of Braille in Australia and has been manufacturing and supplying Braille/tactile and general signage solutions throughout Australia for over 15 years from our Northwest Sydney location(now based at Castle Hill).

High profile projects include the award-winning wayfinding system at the University of Sydney, many of the facilities for the Sydney 2000 Olympics as well as the Epping to Chatswood railway and Braille signs inside the new Oscar railway carriages.

View our latest video http://www.spec-net.com.au/press/0412/arc_250412.htm and visit www.hillmontbraillesigns.com.au. Samples can also be provided.

Our other signage services which are provided by our parent company, Architectural Signs include: