| Title | Research and development of the pedestrian supporting and assisting system (1/3) - the application research of location and guidance technologies for the elderly and the visual disability |
| Dept | Transportation Energy and Environment Division |
| Year | 2008 |
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| Summary | In recent years, the development of a vulnerable individual support and protection system, which applies advanced technologies to reduce the barrier of the walking environment, to reinforce safety, and to protect the right-of-way of vulnerable individuals, has been introduced into both domestic and oversea ITS service development. Especially, due to physical degeneration and limitation, and psychological impact, the elderly and visually impaired cannot effectively sense the change of road traffic conditions, thus increasing the danger and difficulty of walking. As viewing these facts, this research extends the accomplishments of the Ministry Of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) and the Institute Of Transportation (IOT) projects, including ‘Vulnerable Individual Protection Services Model Deployment (2004~2005)’ and ‘Application of ITS Technology for the Aging Society (2002)’, to conduct a study regarding the application of location and guidance technologies to provide necessary protection and transportation services for the elderly and visually impaired. This research is the first year of a 3-year project. First, the research reviews related studies and cases, as well as analyzes the development trend of location and guidance technologies. Secondly, it not only conducts a questionnaire on the elderly and the visually impaired, but also interviews and does AHP analysis with various experts and scholars about their opinions towards the technologies. Then it analyzes the demand and supply issues of the applications to define the demands of location and guidance for the elderly and the visually impaired through four scenarios. These scenarios include: (1) before leaving for destination, (2) walking on the road, (3) waiting for transportation or transferring and (4) emergency service or missing orientation. Also, it proposes feasible solutions for dealing with each scenario. Finally, it selects Taipei city and Kaohsiung city as trial sites to propose the demonstration plan for the visually impaired and the elderly respectively. It plans to utilize GPS and approach-detecting location technologies to provide seamless location and guidance services. Next year, it will execute a demonstration plan to evaluate the system performance to provide a reference for future promotion. |
| Post date | 2008/10/23 |
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