Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Advanced Driver Assistance Systems(also: ADAS)
- A family of in-vehicle technologies that partially automate driving tasks — adaptive cruise control, lane-keeping, automatic emergency braking, parking assistance, blind-spot monitoring — while a human driver retains overall control. ADAS are relevant to accessibility as steps…
- Automation Transparency(also: AI Transparency (Automation), Transparent Automation)
- The degree to which an automated or autonomous system communicates its current state, intent, and reasoning to the humans who depend on it. In autonomous transport, transparency includes cues such as "holding position for traffic," docking countdowns, or explanations of…
- Autonomous Ferry(also: Self-Driving Ferry, Autonomous Passenger Ferry)
- A waterborne passenger vessel that navigates, docks, and avoids obstacles without a human pilot, typically using a sensor suite (cameras, radar, LiDAR, ultrasonic, IMU, GNSS) and a shore-based supervisory operator. Autonomous ferries are being trialled as sustainable…
- Autonomous Public Transport(also: Autonomous Public Transit, Driverless Public Transport)
- Public-transport services — buses, shuttles, ferries, trams — operated wholly or partly by self-driving technology, typically supervised remotely rather than by an onboard driver. From an accessibility perspective, autonomous public transport simultaneously promises cheaper,…
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