Disembarkation In Urban Transport

1226 Words5 Pages

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

Open Document