Recently, the realization of "barrier-free" environment for public transport is increasing drawing concerns of the society. At a number of railway stations, elevators and escalators have been newly installed to help passengers in moving. However, it is indispensable to remove barriers in obtaining information necessary for utilizing railways. For visually disabled passengers, it is difficult to know accurately where they are now. Moreover, they cannot use electronic information boards. In this paper, we introduce a new personalized information system for visually disabled passengers and report the results of field tests carried out at our institute and an actual station in the Tokyo area.

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