Survey on Cab Services for the Visually Impaired

Abstract

In today’s growing world where technology advancing into every aspect of our lives, it has changed the way we go about our life. With all this technology in hand, improvements can be made in various ways to help the society. Focusing on the transportation industry, it has seen an exponential technological growth with the introduction of Applications and services which provide the people with an easy option of travel by booking Cabs which will arrive at their doorstep. Some of the leading apps in this category are Ola, Uber and so many more. However, these apps cater only to the common demographic of people/users. India is a country with over 13 million visually impaired individuals out of which the state of Karnataka has 264,170 people according to the Karnataka Census of 2011. With all these apps and technologies being available to us, we can provide a means of easy and safe transport to these impaired individuals. E-Car Savegalu is an attempt at providing these transportation services to the visually impaired in the form of an application which is intuitive and easy use to book cabs. This concept has a significant role to play in the society by helping a good number of visually impaired people in terms of travel.