MOVIH - Mobility barriers of visualize and auditive impaired people using the public transport system
Abstract
The two groups of people with visual or hearing impairments are – compared to other groups confronted to mobility barriers – rather large and it seems that neither the media nor the general public are aware of this fact. Although these groups have completely different needs and requirements concerning mobility quite often the two groups are not even distinguished from the blind or deaf. People with visual or acoustic impairments rely on these senses though; sometimes they need special attention or support in order to be able to hear or read relevant information. People who are blind or deaf, however, have to replace these senses by others. Consequently many measures in public transport taken for the blind or deaf as a reasonable and convenient help will not foster the mobility of sight or hearing impaired people. It should thereby be taken into consideration that all measures for these two groups would at the same time be beneficial for the total of all travellers and significantly raise people’s comfort and safety and thus public transport’s overall attractiveness. Besides many of these measures could be implemented inexpensively or even no costs at all but yield substantially positive effects. The proposed project focuses on these two specific groups and their needs and barriers concerning mobility. The distinct separation between those and other impaired groups represents another new approach towards addressing problems of seeing and hearing impaired persons. After the description of the state-of- the-art a quantitative as well as a qualitative survey shall lead to a comprehensive understanding of the current situation and characteristics of sight or hearing impaired people’s mobility, supporting and hindering factors and their point of view on applicable solutions to overcome barriers. Parallel to this the approaches, solutions and services of technology and mobility suppliers are analysed. The results are then compared in a gap-analysis. Using especially adapted evaluation techniques all parties involved (people directly concerned by the relevant impairments, technology and mobility suppliers (public transport companies) shall evaluate the individual proposals and solutions and eventually compile a rating/ranking of useful measures. The consolidated findings shall be depicted in recommendations as well as in standards helping public transport companies respecting the requirements of the sight and hearing impaired.
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Project staff
Regine Gerike
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.Ing. Regine Gerike
regine.gerike@boku.ac.at
BOKU Project Leader
01.04.2010 - 31.12.2012
Oliver Roider
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Oliver Roider
oliver.roider@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85617
Project Staff
01.04.2010 - 31.12.2012
Sandra Wegener
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Sandra Wegener
sandra.wegener@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85613
Project Staff
01.04.2010 - 31.12.2012
BOKU partners
External partners
Linz Linien GmbH für öffentlichen Personennahverkehr
none
partner
Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Management Science
none
partner
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Transport and Logistics Management
none
partner