Development of compact personal mobility for the compact city

-Proposal and verification experiment of suppression system-

Abstract

Japan have one problem that the decline of the public transportaion by the aging society, so that the government of Japan have recommended the introduction of personal mobility vehicles (short for PMV) that one of way to solve. However, there are few PMVs considered the elderly people on the market, such as these vehicles have the problem to trip over the step. In this study, we developed the compact personal mobility vehicle equipped with the suppression unit and quantitatively evaluate its fundamental performance through verification experiments.