Tillgaenglig Kollektivtrafik foer Aeldre och Funktionshindrade. Betydelsen av Reskedjans Olika Delar (Accessible Public Transport for Elderly and Physically Disabled. Significance of the Various Links in the Transportation Chain).

摘要

The aim of the project was to evaluate the overall benefit (mobility, safety, quality of life etc) for the elderly population in two different residential areas in Boras. In both areas similar measures were undertaken in the physical environment. In the public transport system, a service route was introduced in one of the areas, and measures on the buses were undertaken in the other area. The elderly's attitudes towards and values of different measures were studied. Many studies were undertaken; a questionnaire (before-after-study) to all people over the age of 65 in both the residential areas, interviews with pedestrians and bus-passengers, counting of passengers on the buses and pedestrians in the areas, counting of passengers in the special transport system (STS), interviews with a group of vision impaired people and a special stated preference study. The summarized result of the project is that the number of passengers in the public transport system increases in both area but the increase is bigger where the service route traffic were introduced; more pedestrians is out in both neighborhoods; measures in both public transport system and the physical environment are appreciated by the elderly; there is a more positive attitude to the changes in the public transport system than in the physical environment; the residents in the area where the service route was introduced value however the measures in the physical environment higher than do the residents where changes on the buses in the mainstream service were made. Furthermore the effect and the attitudes were more positive among the oldest (75+) and the group of people reporting more severe impairments.