National Centre for the Elimination of Architectural and Transportation Barriers

National Centre for the Elimination of Architectural and Partially-Sighted persons is designed to fulfil the following services:

• Collecting and provision of both domestic and international informationon environment adaptations and access that would enable the blind to moveindependently;
• organizing a network of environment access advisers for designers, architects, investors and urban planning/building administration;
• promoting public awareness by means of various functions, events and presentations;
• localizing manufacturers and initiating the production of relevant materialsand equipment;
• formulating and enforcing relevant proposals for the legislature. Thisactivity is conducted in close co-ordination with the National Commissionfor the Disabled.

• Construction and related laws provide for mandatory blindness-related accessadaptations of specific types of  man-made constructions;
• Large-scale implementation of acoustic traffic lights all over the country;
• remotely controlled sound beacons installed at various locations (undergroundsystem entrances, escalators, railway station platforms, public buildings, banks, libraries for the blind, etc.;
• remotely controlled public transport identifiers that can tell a blinduser the number of an incoming tram or bus and its destination;
• guiding lines and strips in the paving of walkways (pavements, train andunderground platforms, etc.).