This report proposes cost-effective design guidelines to increase ride comfort, safety, and transit bus utility levels by specifying the visual cue requirements that will allow elderly riders to maintain a maximum sense of balance and spatial orientation. Human subjects were used to obtain both objective and subjective data. The results suggest that the use of vertical geometric patterns is a viable intervention strategy to optimize visual orientation and postural stability of subjects (i.e., reduce the incidence of falling) on a moving transit bus.
User Friendly Bus Interior Design: Reducing Falls through Improved Visual Environment. 1. Executive Summary
1994
14 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Road Transportation , Transportation Safety , Transportation , Transportation & Traffic Planning , Public Health & Industrial Medicine , Transit industries , Bus transportation , Accidental falls , Safety , Accident prevention , Human factors engineering , Cues , Visual perception , Elderly persons , Posture , Stability , Visual fields