Under funding from the National Easter Seals Foundation and the US Federal Transportation Agency (Project Action), Baruch College CCVIP and Touch Graphics are creating software to be marketed to transit properties around the United States who wish to create their own accessible maps for their visually impaired ridership. The system acts as an overlay to AutoCAD; it includes custom menus and macros, libraries of standardized tactile symbol blocks, and complete documentation and guidelines for map design. Finished computer files will be sent back to Touchgraphics in New York City for engraving, moldmaking and mass production thermoforming. The system is being piloted by transit groups in Tacoma, Washington; Newark, New Jersey; and Nassau County, New York.   An article has appeared in Thresholds 19 from 1999 describing this project in more detail.  Please click here to read the article.