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Metro Station : Information Displays - FDArchitects - 07-31-2014

Information Displays

10.9.3.1 Signages shall be user-friendly and shall provide information essential to Users, engendering a sense of reassurance, security and orientation when entering, exiting or transferring. It shall Guide Users to various Station areas, provide information of the Station and its services and provide information on Train services.

10.9.3.2 Essential public information signages shall be of retro-reflective high intensity prismatic boards or equivalent.

10.9.3.3 User information shall cover the following as the minimum:

(i)Static signages such as Station name, destination of services, platform number, position of doors of Coaches, way finding signs, direction, entry, and exit;

(ii)variable signages such as real time travel information to customers;

(iii)maps and long term changeable information on scheduled services;

(iv)information on the use or operation of a place or system;

(v)intermodal connections;

(vi)emergency exits; and

(vii)rules of conduct to Users.

10.9.3.4 Major information to Users such as platform number, direction, entry, exit etc shall be in letters of size not less than 300mm. For other information, size and color code shall be decided in consultation with the IE.

10.9.3.5 All signages shall have alternate pictorial signages of same size as the letters.

10.9.3.6 The technical fabrication details for the fixed hardware system shall be in accordance with security requirements.

10.9.3.7 The following principles shall be followed for placement of signages:

(i)User information displays should be so located that Users seeking information have ready access without obstructing free flow of Users;

(ii)signs shall be placed at decision points, and perpendicular to the line of sight; and

(iii)signages shall be placed on the left side of passages including stairs, lifts and escalators.

10.9.3.8 Lighting levels shall be so designed that general lighting does not overpower the light emitted by signages.