Apostle Mobile screenshot
Researchers at the Valencian Biomechanics Academy are collaborating on an app fashioned to assist the antique and reduced mobility congregation in their migration around the megalopolis. A first variant of the app is already at one’s disposal for download from GooglePlay.
Apostle Mobile is a semanship, route contriver and parking app fashioned specifically for citizens with low mobility. It take together all style of information and raison d’€tre useful to the ancient or wheelchair-limit wishing to measure around the metropolis. For instance, the domicile of reserved parking room, as well as rhytidectomy- and ramp-fascinate to underground site. It can also be hand-me-down to plan direction, whether on fundament or wheelchair, or by car or general transport. Collection is currently to hand for Madrid, Lisboa, Parma and Version.
The development of the app is moreover tied to the new-and-built European Parking Scorecard currently continuance piloted in metropolis across Collection. The card now embodys ID authentification application in a bid to reduce humbug in the use of reserved parking expanse. Holders of one of these new playing-card can use SIMON Wandering to identify themselves at parking place and gain route access to circumscribed areas of the conurbation, as well as consult with confer with their menu history. Non-rock-bottom mobility buyer will gem the app useful for directing and information intention.
The app can be downloaded from the Apostle project site (simon-propose.eu). European Parking Scorecard holders in Madrid, Lisboa, Parma and Recital can also requisition participation in the flyer scheme to trial the ID authentification servicing.
The goal of the Apostle project, co-funded by the Continent Commission, is to contribute independent experience and remove any of the barriers to common participation featured by persons with rock-bottom mobility. Specifically, removing the catch that anticipate habitual use of national transport and parking. The layout addresses two decisive issues: combatting the falsified use of the European Parking Cardboard, in the form of agile cards and wandering devices, and directing aids fashioned specifically for the ancient and other rock-bottom mobility number.
