The ease of getting in and out of a vehicle (or ingress/egress) is one of the most important ergonomic issues for automotive manufacturers. It represents the first physical contact of a customer with a vehicle. Urban transport is quintessential to the usability of urbanites; enabling the carrying out of activities in their daily lives. Due to its public nature, it should be inclusive enough to cater to all the members in society of diverse ages, abilities and sizes. With special concerns on embarkation and disembarkation of bus, this research paper attempts to identify physical attributes of settings and devices that would not merely make provisions for access by the older persons who need facilitations but for other passengers as well. Entrances …show more content…
(Caiaffaet al, 2001).Drivers will manipulate the bus more steadily if their skills are improved, which is beneficial to people with ambulant disablements such as the older persons. Moreover, relative study conducted by Caiaffa & Tyler (2000) in England indicated that, in local environment, passengers with physical limitations had more comfortable embarkation and disembarkation when the bus was embarked from or disembarked to the street kerb edge. In particular, to bring buses close to the kerb edge helped assure persons with fears or worries about falls of feeling able to use it. Figure 1: Bus Manipulated Towards the Kerb Edge of the Bus Shelter, And the Horizontal and Vertical Gaps II. LITERATURE BACKGROUND Many researchers have focused on solving the design issues related to the ergonomic issues related to vehicle. One of such issues is the “Ergonomics of Ingress/Egress design”, which is the key area of …show more content…
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE I. To study the Ingress/Egress motion of passengers with respect to the existing design of CTU buses with collecting data through Questionnaires, video recording etc. II. To identifying the difficulties people may encounter when they are using public bus service in Chandigarh in particular issues related to ingress and egress. IV. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Phase I- Collection of Data: Questionnaires has been used to collect the following information from user population (i) Basic information (ii) Travelling mode and frequency (iii) Bus shelter design (iv) Ingress and egress issues (v) Handrail size and placement. Appropriate usability rating scale would be used to record the
These granny trams are built to be a safe and easy way for the elderly to navigate. Taking the scary out of the efficient sky trams. Without taking them out of their comfort zones. On the opposite side of the spectrum we have a system for those more mobile. Sky buses, buses that ride in the sky.
He shared the stories of a wide variety of people while he embarked on a journey across the country in a short bus. By revealing the common issues and judgment within society, Jonathon’s book advocated for the people who have any sort of disability, and he brought to light the beauty of each difference. For those who would want to learn about the thoughts and feelings of people who have experienced rejection because of a label, Jonathon Mooney’s book would be an excellent selection because of the real accounts and stories. The book offered an emotional connection that other texts could not provide. Therefore, The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal should be a common read for everyone in order to learn about the real accounts of people labeled as having learning
Upon getting to the bus stop she is wheezing and gasping for breath. Allison is also visibly fatigued by the time she gets there; she is pale and dripping sweat. The pain in her right foot often prevents her from making it without stopping to take the weight off it. Allison is unable to sit in the same position for more than
The three usability specifications that I will propose as being appropriate to assess the usability of my proposed are the time to locate a club, number of times the back button is used, meaning that they cannot find the information and appearance. First the time to locate a club on the website and the number of times the back button is used is important. The current website is not satisfying students because the website has too many links that take you to a different part on the website. In programming, they have many links to prevent too much information being stored on one section of the website to make it run faster. But the problem is people do not want to have to go fishing through links to find something that should take 10 or 15 seconds.
Today in society there a lot of elders on the roads. For my bill I would like to mandate the restest of drivers over the age of 70. They will be required to take the road and written test so they can renew their licences over the age of 70. I wrote this bill because there are a lot of elders in society today where they have illnesses that can cause them to forget things. The goal of my legislation is to mandate the restest of drivers over the age of 70 so they are safe on our roads.
Individuals with disabilities are victims of bullying and abuse. Bauer uses the statistic from University of Massachusetts, which found that “Almost half of the young people surveyed wouldn’t want to sit next to a student like Margaret on a school bus” (Bauer 445). That statistic is appalling. Students wouldn’t even want to sit next to their classmate who has Down Syndrome or a different intellectual disability. Another shocking fact that Bauer uses is, “More than half of parent’s didn’t want such
At one point the van in front of us got stuck in a pile of mud, so we had to sit on this hill with our emergency brake on while the driver of our van helped the other one. Have you ever got stuck on a rollarcoaster in the middle of the most anxious part? The part where you're almost at the top of the upclimb but then boom, you come to a total stop. Think about this situation just like that. Under pressure, I came up with the genius idea of all leaning forward so our body weight wasn't going backward toward the bottom of the hill thinking this might help.
Murphy lacks mobility and sensation in his lower body other than the feeling of occasional muscle spasms, and has limited movement in his upper body below the neck including his arms. Murphy writes the story as it recounts events throughout his entire life, from childhood onwards. He was sixty-two when he wrote the novel. The story provides Murphy’s anthropological commentary on the life of a person with a disability and how society views and treats people with disabilities (Murphy, 1990). Murphy’s performance patterns both support and inhibit his occupational engagement.
Safety perception was influenced by directness features, safety related infrastructure and social-demographic variables such as gender and transit use. To improve safety perception, safety related infrastructure as well as directness features that limit safety hazards can be implemented. In addition safety perception was significantly correlated with directness, continuity and aesthetics perceptions. 3.
The social model of disability, on the other hand, focuses on the environmental factors and the availability of support structures
The concept of accessibility extends to a wide range of facilities that are a part of our everyday usage such as elevators, Braille signage and sound-enabled signals at pedestrian crossings. The overall aim of this concept is to enable people with special requirements to gain access to aspects of everyday life that include transportation, education, employment, housing, entertainment and so on.
Disability is defined by World Health Organisation as “an umbrella term, covering impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. Impairment is a problem in body function or structure; an activity limitation is a difficulty encountered by an individual in executing a task or action; while a participation restriction is a problem experienced by an individual in involvement in life situations”. Disability remains a major challenge throughout the world with disabled people facing hostile socioeconomic outcomes than people without disabilities, such as less education, worse health outcomes, less employment, and higher poverty rates (1). Physical disability is defined as: “an acquired or congenital physical and/or motor impairment
Disabled people are people who have mental or physical limitation so they depend on someone to support them in doing their daily life needs and jobs. Although disabled people are a minority and they are normally ignored, they are still a part of the society. The statistics show that the proportion of disabled people in the world rose from 10 percent in the seventies of the last century to 15 percent so far. The number of handicapped exceeds a billion people all over the world, occupied about 15 percent of the world's population, as a result of an aging population and the increase in chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, blood and psychological diseases that are related with disabilities and impairments. Every five seconds someone