Mapping for Wheelchair Users: Route Navigation in Urban Spaces

Beale, Linda; Field, Kenneth; Briggs, David; Picton, Philip; Matthews, H. Scott

doi:10.1179/000870406x93517

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“…Indeed when compared to other spaces in the urban environment (see Beale et al 2006), railway stations might actually be better equipped to support differently-mobile passengers' movement through space. Larger railway stations are compliant with the requirements of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act, providing step-free access for mobility-impaired passengers from station to platforms.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Her movement knowledges therefore revolve around a heightened attunement to the surficial physicality of space, particularly the different feasibility of gradients and terrains of the station that other users would perhaps not consider (see also Beale et al 2006). As such, differentlymobile passengers become more experienced at moving with mobile objects such that movement becomes a skill; a set of learnt capabilities where knowledges of how to traverse particular stations can be transferred to move effectively through other, similar stations.…”

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Conceptualising differently-mobile passengers: geographies of everyday encumbrance in the railway station

Bissell

2009

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper develops ideas of differential mobility at the scale of the 'everyday' by investigating some of the complex relationships between mobility and immobility; facilitation and encumbrance when moving through railway stations. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research with rail passengers in Britain, the first section explores the entangled relationship between differently-mobile bodies and the station by considering some of the tensions that emerge between experiences of encumbrance and facilitation. Focus here is on how navigating through the station with different mobile objects, or 'prostheses', impacts on passengers in a variety of ways. Drawing on insights from science, technology and society studies, it demonstrates how moving with different objects gives rise to fluid apprehensions of both mobile objects and the built form of the station itself. However, and importantly, this section suggests that this fluidity also has the capacity to disrupt the intended affective dimensions of the built form. The second section explores how differently-mobile passengers move through the station with these mobile objects. Drawing on de Certeau's notion of 'tactics' and Ingold's idea of the 'taskscape', this section pulls out some of the practical knowledges that, through repetition, develop into skills and techniques for moving. In doing so, this paper seeks to illuminate some of the complex relationships between mobility, prosthetics, encumbrance and affectivity that emerge when moving through the railway station.

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Section: Prosthetic Knowledgesmentioning

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Conceptualising differently-mobile passengers: geographies of everyday encumbrance in the railway station

Bissell

2009

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…Traditionally, the most used methods for acquiring information on urban accessibility are based on evidence and street observation [20], surveys and questionnaires [21,22] and interviews [23,24] from disabled people and other interesting people. However, these methods cannot be performed very frequently due to the cost and time involved and, therefore, have rapidly become obsolete.…”

Section: Methods For Acquiring Urban Accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Interactive cloud system for the analysis of accessibility in smart cities

Mora¹,

Gilart-Iglesias²,

Pérez-delHoyo³

et al. 2016

Int. J. DNE

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Recent technological progress has enabled the spread of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to new applications possible with the aim to improve citizens' quality of life. This idea has been significantly increasing in political agendas as well as in the public services. The concepts of Smart-city or Sustainable-city are possible thanks to the application of technology. The focus of this work is on people with movement disabilities and the goal of the whole system is to meet their real needs and requirements. As a result, this article presents the possibilities offered by new ICTs to design a method for generating knowledge about accessibility issues in urban environments. In this sense, a comprehensive system aided by technology is proposed to analyse the transportation accessibility in a city. The research tries to make visible the most vulnerable groups of citizens, involving them as active participants and to serve as a way of social awareness. It aims to improve the knowledge of the current accessibility level and to improve the interaction and learning of all actors and groups involved -government, institutions, researchers, professionals, people with disabilities and other individuals of society in general. To perform and implement the system, the latest advances in technologies such as GPS positioning, geographic information systems, smart sensing and cloud computing have been used. The combination of all these technologies allows an interactive, dynamic and constantly updated approach.

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“…Traditionally, the most used method to obtain information on urban accessibility is made by means of evidence, street observation and audits [59], interviews [60,61], and surveys/questionnaires [55,[62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70] from authorities, disabled people, and other interested groups-friends and family. From the previous data, other proposals are based on mathematical and/or statistical approaches to analyze and evaluate the accessibility level of the city [70][71][72][73].…”

Section: Dynamic Analysis Of Urban Accessibilitymentioning

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A Computational Method based on Radio Frequency Technologies for the Analysis of Accessibility of Disabled People in Sustainable Cities

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Abstract:The sustainability strategy in urban spaces arises from reflecting on how to achieve a more habitable city and is materialized in a series of sustainable transformations aimed at humanizing different environments so that they can be used and enjoyed by everyone without exception and regardless of their ability. Modern communication technologies allow new opportunities to analyze efficiency in the use of urban spaces from several points of view: adequacy of facilities, usability, and social integration capabilities. The research presented in this paper proposes a method to perform an analysis of movement accessibility in sustainable cities based on radio frequency technologies and the ubiquitous computing possibilities of the new Internet of Things paradigm. The proposal can be deployed in both indoor and outdoor environments to check specific locations of a city. Finally, a case study in a controlled context has been simulated to validate the proposal as a pre-deployment step in urban environments.

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Mapping for Wheelchair Users: Route Navigation in Urban Spaces

Cited by 105 publications

References 9 publications

Conceptualising differently-mobile passengers: geographies of everyday encumbrance in the railway station

Conceptualising differently-mobile passengers: geographies of everyday encumbrance in the railway station

Interactive cloud system for the analysis of accessibility in smart cities

A Computational Method based on Radio Frequency Technologies for the Analysis of Accessibility of Disabled People in Sustainable Cities

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