Accessible Transportation and the Built Environment on College Campuses

Abstract

University transportation facilities might still not be accessible for people with impairments even 20 years after enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), although everyone benefits, regardless of abilities, from a safe and equitable learning environment. This paper examines modern conceptions of disabilities and transportation provisions to accommodate them. To test the accessibility of transportation facilities as defined by ADA guidelines, the bus stops situated around the campus of Clemson University in South Carolina were evaluated in the context of ADA and the more modern concept of universal design. The results showed accessible accommodation of transit riders is still a concept that falls short of implementation.

Selecting Occupational Safety Equipment by MCDM Approach Considering Universal Design Principles

“…When the extant literature on the UD principles is analyzed, it can be seen that they are mostly used in studies related to home or living place design (Gao, Ebert, Chen, & Ding, ; Hwangbo, Kim, Kim, & Ji, ; Kitano & Adachi, ; Rousek & Hallbeck, ), education and learning issues (Brizee, Sousa, & Driscoll, ; Fox, ; Larkins, Dunning, & Ridout, ), special design (Bendixen & Benktzon, ; C. C. H. Chan, Wong, Lee, & Chi, ; Endo & Kawamura, ; Imai et al., 2009; Kose, ; Moon & McAdams, ; Mustaquim, ; Newell, Gregor, Morgan, Pullin, & Macaulay, ; Pieper & Hermsdorf, ; Watanabe, Okano, Asano, & Ogawa, ), or health subjects (Afacan & Demirkan, ; Huang, Tao, Pu, Ren, & Qu, ; Plos, Buisine, Aoussat, Mantelet, & Dumas, ; Sadamoto, Hikota, & Saeki, ; Sangelkar & McAdams, ) for elderly or/and disabled people. Although UD is a concept that is defined for all kinds of design in all kinds of subjects, this literature review shows that it is commonly employed for special design cases for a specific part of the population.…”