Readable Prague and the year 2024
Naposledy aktualizováno: 30. 04. 2025 | Publikováno 30. 04. 2025
The project of the unified information and navigation system Readable Prague advanced to the next phase in 2024. We significantly expanded the number of digital information panels at important surface transport stops, we fine-tuned the appearance of maps on obelisks to fundamentally strengthen pedestrian navigation, which we are testing in various places in Prague in various sizes. Extensive user research was also carried out in the metro and at tram stops – for example, new traffic patterns in metro cars, the so-called dachshunds, took their final form. We are also piloting new navigation elements on the railway, which help to better integrate trains into urban public transport.
Together with the authors of the new unified design and individual project stakeholders, we are now finalizing a detailed navigation manual in the Prague metro or tuning the new form of the content of digital screens, information materials, traffic patterns, or stop timetables. We are also gradually fine-tuning the new final form of carriers for individual information, such as stop markers, directional signs in the metro, or information display cases.
What was achieved in 2024
- 30 separate departure panels at major tram and bus stops
- 45 departure panels in new stop shelters (implemented by THMP)
- new large-screen departure screens at Masaryk Station
- third metro test station: Chodov (new navigation sign graphics)
- further test prototypes of new markers at Staroměstská and Nádraží Libeň
- navigation signs within the new footbridge to the Prague-Rajská zahrada train stop (as part of the full operation of the footbridge)
- new totems to highlight metro and railway stations: Malostranská, Háje, Eden, Rajská zahrada, Dolní Počernice
- pilot project of railway navigation – Prague-Dolní Počernice stop
- user testing of a new form of information at surface transport stops at Palmovka, the so-called “lenses” and the content of new information display cases in stop shelters
- finalization of the final form and full-scale installation of new metro schemes in cars, the so-called “dachshunds”, user testing of navigation elements in metro stations
- new obelisks for pedestrian navigation on Wenceslas Square, Palmovka, Štvanice, Strossmayer Square or near the Veletržní Palace
- new prototypes of direction signs for pedestrian navigation in Eden or Štvanice
What we expect in 2025
In 2025, we expect the gradual implementation of totems, or elements highlighting individual metro or railway stations, at individual selected locations. Furthermore, the plan is to fine-tune and gradually replace static information at surface transport stops, so-called “lenses”, including the installation of information display cases in shelters. The installation of dozens more digital departure panels at public transport stops will also continue, either in the form of free-standing panels or screens in shelters. Regarding pedestrian navigation, the plan is to equip a comprehensive route connecting Prague 1 and 7 with new signposts and obelisks, so that we can set up an overall system for the deployment of these elements on the streets of Prague to make pedestrian movement more attractive and better distribute visitors to the metropolis from the main tourist routes to other parts of Prague. We would also like to fine-tune a new family of stop markers, new carriers of static information in the metro, or information display cases. This year’s plan also includes gradual modifications to the PID Lítačka mobile application, as the main electronic traffic navigation tool.
The mobile application in conjunction with navigation and information directly in the field is the key to a truly comprehensive and unified system.
User testing of new elements will continue in order to fine-tune their final form and to begin the nationwide exchange of individual types of elements or information materials. The project also aims to expand the new form of information about public transport to the territory of the Central Bohemian Region within the PID system.
We are cooperating on the project in particular with the Prague Public Transport Company, the Prague Planning and Development Institute, Prague Technologies, the Prague Technical Communications Administration, Prague City Tourism, but also with the Central Bohemian Region and the Railway Administration.