Study on Elderly Pedestrian Environment With a View Point of Their Eye Movement.
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04452235
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
交通工学・国土計画
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| Research Institution | Akita University |
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Principal Investigator |
SHIMIZU Koshiro Akita University, Mining College, Professor, 鉱山学部, 教授 (30006655)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KIMURA Kazuhiro Akita University, Mining College, Research Associate, 鉱山学部, 助手 (60177912)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1992 – 1994
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1994)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥6,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,100,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 1993: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 1992: ¥4,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,800,000)
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| Keywords | Elderly / Pedestrian / Eye Movement / Traffic Safety Facilities / Road Structure / Mobility / 車いす利用者 / 走行環境 |
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| Research Abstract |
The Purpose of this study is to cordinate comfortable pedestrian circumstance for elderly people with a view point of their eye movement. For the purpose, two analysies were conducted. The one is a analys on mobility problem of rhe elderly people in a pedestrian circumstance. The other is analysis on behavior of pedestrian and wheel chair user and their eyemovement of the circumstance of their mixed traffic.
There are not a few elderly people who don't have clearly disability but difficulty, for example in ascendig stairs, in riding bicycle, on in walking long distance. Also importance of trip purpose of the elderly and location of there habvitatations might have effects on the trip generation. Compared with the non-elderly, transportation gap which could not cover those elderly people because their transportation difficulty, are relatively large. Therefore, people whom actual traffic facilities can not serve normally might be increasing. In this study, problems of elderly transport according to trip purposes and their mobility handicap
The analysys of behavior of pedestrian and wheel chair user in their mixed flow, conflicts such as speed down, following and avoidance were revieled. Also their eye movement, watching time and kinds of vision objects were analyzed in the view point of visual lord of pedestrian environment.
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