Study on Application of the Socioeconomic Evaluation Technique to Traffic Barrier-Free Improvement/Development Projects

Since Japan currently has been one of the most aging societies in the world, urban environment to support the elderly and disabled people for independence and social participation has to be urgently established. For promoting the improvement and development of the barrier-free facilities such as public transportation facilities, it is considered that socioeconomic effectiveness and efficiency will become more important in the era when the public investment capacity has been reducing accompanied by the progressing aging society. In this study, the authors applied the socioeconomic evaluation technique to the traffic barrier-free evaluation to examine its effectiveness and application to the government policies.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • The title of this paper is listed as "Study on Application of the Socioeconomic Evaluation Technique to Traffic Barrier-Free Improvement" on the TRANSED 2007 Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transport Canada

  1000 Sherbrooke Street, West, P.O. Box 549
  Montreal, Quebec  Canada  H3A 2R3
• Authors:
  • Suzuki, Yoshiyasu
  • Kodama, Ken
  • Takahashi, Fumi
  • Nitta, Yasutsugu
• Conference:
  • 11th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons (TRANSED)
  • Location: Montreal , Canada
  • Date: 2007-6-18 to 2007-6-22
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 5p
• Monograph Title: Transed 2007. Benchmarking, Evaluation and Vision for the Future

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged; Barrier free design; Barriers (Roads); Persons with disabilities; Public transit; Socioeconomic factors; Sustainable development; Transit operating agencies
• Identifier Terms: Transed
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01130303
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 19 2009 9:28AM