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In this paper, based on advanced information &amp; communication technologies (ICT) and green technologies (GT) concepts, a dedicated public urban transportation service access system named Mobi+ has been introduced, which facilitates the mobility of DWB passengers. The Mobi+ project consists of three subsystems: a wireless communication subsystem, which provides the data exchange and network connection services between buses and stations in the complex urban environments; the bus subsystem, which provides the DWB class detection &amp; bus arrival notification services; and the station subsystem, which implements the urban environmental surveillance &amp; bus auxiliary access services. The Mobi+ card that supports multi-microcontroller multi-transceiver adopts the fault-tolerant component-based hardware architecture, in which the dedicated embedded system software, i.e., operating system micro-kernel and wireless protocol, has been integrated. The dedicated Mobi+ embedded system provides the fault-tolerant resource awareness communication and scheduling mechanism to ensure the reliability in data exchange and service provision. At present, the Mobi+ system has been implemented on the buses and stations of line \u20182\u2019 in the city of Clermont-Ferrand (France). The experiential results show that, on one hand the Mobi+ prototype system reaches the design expectations and provides an effective urban bus access service for people with disabilities; on the other hand the Mobi+ system is easily to deploy in the buses and at bus stations thanks to its low energy consumption and small form factor.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s120810678","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,8,6]],"date-time":"2012-08-06T11:01:08Z","timestamp":1344250868000},"page":"10678-10692","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":46,"title":["Intelligent Urban Public Transportation for Accessibility Dedicated to People with Disabilities"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Haiying","family":"Zhou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kun-Mean","family":"Hou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"LIMOS Laboratory, University of Clermont-Ferrand II, Clermont-Ferrand 63000, France"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Decheng","family":"Zuo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jian","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,8,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Roberts, P., and Babinard, J. 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