Guidance

Inclusive mobility: using tactile paving surfaces

How to install and use tactile paving surfaces to help visually impaired and other pedestrians recognise potential hazards and other features in roads, rail and other locations.

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 10 January 2022

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Guidance on the use of tactile paving surfaces

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Details

This document gives the latest guidance on installing and using different tactile paving surfaces, which help to give visually impaired pedestrians important information about potential hazards and other features in their environment.

This guidance has been informed by research that the Department for Transport (DfT) published in February 2020.

We expect to review this document frequently in the future, responding to evolving research, people’s needs and best practice.

We will consider feedback, evolving evidence and research to inform future updates. We will do this through our work to deliver our commitments in the Inclusive Transport Strategy.

Suggestions can be sent to DfT at [email protected].

The next update will be considered within 5 years.

Published 10 January 2022