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Proposal for Welfare Town Planning Method and Experimental Development of Support System for Persons with Disabilities

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: In this study, we proposed a method of a welfare town planning, and experimentally developed a support system for disabled persons. Our proposed method of welfare town planning is to make a town-maintenance plan to reflect wheelchair users’ opinions by preparing opportunities for them to directly take part in the town planning and actively express their opinions. Furthermore, in the field of town planning we used a function of support system for disabled persons to calculate quantitatively reduction of physical load for the wheelchair users. This support system has another function: to navigate the wheelchair users from one place to another. The suggested route is found by calculating the most comfortable path for the wheelchair user.

Source: Procedia Environmental Sciences

DOI: 10.1016/j.proenv.2014.11.007

Authors: Motoya Koga, Shinobu Izumi, Shigehito Matsubara, Yoshie Inada, Daria Gaidar

Institutions: Sojo University, Kumamoto Health Science University, Saarland University

Language: English

Topic: Urban Transport and Accessibility

Subfield: Transportation

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science