New Safety Standards for Motorised Mobility Devices in Australia

A motorised mobility device (MMD) is primarily intended as assistive technology for people with limited mobility. MMDs include powered wheelchairs and mobility scooters. In recent years concerns have been raised about the number of fatal and serious incidents with these devices in Australia. These incidents are not reliably recorded in crash reporting systems but special studies indicated that several hundred Australians are hospitalised each year due to incidents involving MMDs. A review using the safe-systems approach resulted in recommended minimum safety requirements for the design of MMDs intended to be used on footpaths/sidewalks and other public infrastructure. In 2018 Standards Australia published a new Technical Specification settings out these requirements. This paper provides background on the development of these requirements.

• Record URL:
  • https://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/esv/26th/
• Record URL:
  • https://www-esv.nhtsa.dot.gov/Proceedings/26/26ESV-000205.pdf
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/19-0051
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Paper Number: 19-0205-W
• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Paine, Michael
  • Paine, David
• Conference:
  • 26th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV): Technology: Enabling a Safer Tomorrow
  • Location: Eindhoven , Netherlands
  • Date: 2019-6-10 to 2019-6-13
• Publication Date: 2019

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: 4p
• Monograph Title: 26th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV): Enabling a Safer Tomorrow

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Assistive technology; Fatalities; Scooters; Traffic crashes; Wheelchairs
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01762210
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 19-0205
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 11 2021 5:37PM