Towards a Multi-modal Transportation Scenario: An Analysis About Elderly Needs

For the elderly the use of public transportation services represents a central need, not only from an economic point of view, especially for the most disadvantages social classes, but also from a social perspective, since it creates social relations. However the elderly have several needs in their travel experience, deriving mainly from their psychophysical problems. In this scenario, to improve the travel experience of the elderly it is necessary to adopt an inclusive design approach, in which the different categories of people are considered as a resource for a more accommodating design.

[1]  Gudmundur F. Ulfarsson,et al.  Travel Mode Choice of the Elderly: Effects of Personal, Household, Neighborhood, and Trip Characteristics , 2004 .

[2]  Heiko Gebauer,et al.  Value co-creation as a determinant of success in public transport services : A study of the Swiss Federal Railway operator (SBB) , 2010 .

[3]  Helena Strömberg,et al.  Implementing Mobility as a Service , 2015 .

[4]  Halime Demirkan,et al.  Universal product design involving elderly users: a participatory design model. , 2004, Applied ergonomics.

[5]  Evangelos Bekiaris,et al.  Elderly and Disabled Travelers Needs in Infomobility Services , 2007, HCI.

[6]  Roberta Grimaldi,et al.  Rethinking Public Transport Services for the Elderly Through a Transgenerational Design Approach , 2016, HCI.

[7]  H. Creighton,et al.  The future of transport in an aging society , 2015 .

[8]  R. Hjorthol.  Transport resources, mobility and unmet transport needs in old age , 2012, Ageing and Society.

[9]  R. Grotz,et al.  Everyday Mobility of Elderly People in Different Urban Settings: The Example of the City of Bonn, Germany , 2006 .

[10]  S. Haustein.  Mobility behavior of the elderly: an attitude-based segmentation approach for a heterogeneous target group , 2012 .

[11]  G. Lyons,et al.  What Affects Use of Pretrip Public Transport Information? , 2008 .

[12]  Kieran Broome,et al.  Bus use and older people: A literature review applying the Person–Environment–Occupation model in macro practice , 2009, Scandinavian journal of occupational therapy.

[13]  L Spazzafumo,et al.  Outdoor mobility and social relationships of elderly people. , 1997, Archives of gerontology and geriatrics.