Doboku Gakkai Ronbunshu
Online ISSN : 1882-7187
Print ISSN : 0289-7806
ISSN-L : 0289-7806
STRUCTURE OF WALKWAY FOR AGED USING WHEELCHAIR
Masuhiro NABESHIMAMasaru YAMADA
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2003 Volume 2003 Issue 725 Pages 157-169

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In aging society's progressing, in addition to thinking of the environment which can go out to outdoors with the aged people and the disabled person firstly, the improvement of the walkway environment must be attempted without delay. In this research, we measure the driving force which acts on the hand limb of the wheelchair when it runs by the aged people, and we examin the influence which “Cross fall of the walkway”, “Gradient of the walkway” and “Depth of the step between the roadway and the walkway” exert on the running by the wheel chair. And adding up those results and the evaluation result by the aged people who use a wheelchair, we considered about the structure of the walkway which fitted in with the walkway environment which is necessary for the aged people.
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