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Modern agglomerations are interested in the development of public transport and the use of advanced technical and organizational solutions in this area. One of the elements is passenger information. Good passenger information reduces travel time and increases the competitiveness of public transport. It is therefore an element that encourages the use of public transport, improves the comfort of travel and improves the image of the city and the carrier. The question rises, how is the efficiency of the presented information in terms of passenger readability. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to identify the information system components which gives important information to the passenger, and which are threatened by misreading. Afterwards, the main goal of this work is to give answer about correctness of gathered information. There is lack of regulation on the visibility distance of displayed text in boards is not in line with the current disability friendly policy. An attempt has been made to determine the minimum visibility limits depending on the type of board and the type of text. The manufacturer of display boards also does not declare the visibility distance of the displayed text on the boards. It was found that boards of smaller size, commonly used in new vehicles, adversely affect the visibility of text. The worst results of visibility distance measurements were recorded on small LEDs boards with a contrasting line number installed in new trams in Wroclaw. The best readable are the messages on large LEDs boards with a contrasting line number commonly used in many cities.
Keywords: Public transport, display board, passenger information systems© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.