Patent ID: 7271739

Claim:
A guiding system for a walking zone in public buildings, complexes of buildings and traffic zones, which have a plurality of destinations interconnected by traffic routes, wherein continuous visual orientation lines are arranged along the traffic routes, the orientation lines differ from each other by different, readily distinguishable visual features, in particular colors, the orientation lines are equipped with indicator features pointing towards the associated destination, the orientation lines end at the associated destination, the orientation lines are defined by display devices which can be selectively activated in sections; characterized in that orientation lines with different visual features are associated with different destinations, traffic routes leading to a plurality of destinations are accompanied by a plurality of continuous orientation lines each corresponding to one of the destinations, the destinations include distributor destinations and final destinations, and traffic routes branching out to final destinations end at a distributor destination, traffic routes provided with associated orientation lines and leading to other destinations passing through said distributor destination, arranged along the traffic routes are identification stations where users are identified and user data is retrieved; and an information system outputs user-specific information at selected places of the buildings, traffic routes and destinations.