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.


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    Title :

    User Friendly Bus Interior Design: Reducing Falls through Improved Visual Environment. 1. Executive Summary


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1994


    Size :

    14 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English






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