Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference, Vancouver, Canada, July 21-23, 1986

This proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons is presented in five broad categories: 1. Overviews including topics about specialized transportation, mobility in the global village, housing considerations and interface with transportation, and transportation problems of elderly and handicapped in developing countries; 2. Policy and Regulation presenting issues involving regulatory options and choices and providing availability and uses of resources such as dedicated funding, performance based auditing and an assessment of operators' needs; 3. Mass Transportation and Specialized Service including papers covering municipal specialized services, regional transportation, air travel, accessible fixed routes, and advocacy and public awareness issues; 4. Private Transportation discussing the assessment and rehabilitation of disabled drivers and current issues affecting elderly drivers, and 5. Ergonomics and Engineering covering computers in scheduling, maintenance and planning, elderly and handicapped pedestrian traffic, and ergonomics applied to transportation accessibility.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transport Canada

  1000 Sherbrooke Street, West, P.O. Box 549
  Montreal, Quebec  Canada  H3A 2R3
• Conference:
  • The Fourth International Conference on Mobility and Transport for the Elderly and Disabled Persons
  • Location: Vancouver British Columbia, Canada
  • Date: 1986-7-21 to 1986-7-23
• Publication Date: 1986

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 980p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged; Aged drivers; Blind persons; Conferences; Decision making; Ergonomics; Financing; Hearing impaired persons; High risk drivers; Human factors engineering; Mobility; Multimodal transportation; Paratransit vehicles; Pedestrian traffic; Persons with disabilities; Policy; Public transit; Transportation disadvantaged persons; Visually impaired persons
• Identifier Terms: Transed
• Uncontrolled Terms: Disabled passengers
• Geographic Terms: Canada; United Kingdom; United States
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Policy; Safety and Human Factors; Society; Terminals and Facilities; Transportation (General); Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01042147
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 16 2007 10:11AM