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Mobility and healthy ageing in the city: Exploring opportunities and challenges of autonomous vehicles for older adults’ outdoor mobility

Older adults face outdoor mobility challenges due to age-related changes and problems linked to the transportation system. The advent of…

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Driving Assessment for Persons with Dementia: How and when?

Dementia is a progressive neurodegenerative disease leading to deterioration in cognitive and physical skills. Driving is an important instrumental activity…

rbh_admin_2318 December 2024

The pursuit of satisfaction: Variation in satisfaction with bus transit service among riders with encumbrances and riders with disabilities using a large-scale survey from London, UK

To retain and grow ridership, transit agencies continuously survey riders to learn how to improve services and understand what leads…

rbh_admin_2318 December 2024

Rural old-age social exclusion: A conceptual framework on mediators of exclusion across the lifecourse

Social exclusion amongst rural-dwelling older adults and the role of the diversity of people and places in mediating the construction…

rbh_admin_2318 December 2024

Taking part in activities, an exploration of the role of discretionary travel in older people’s wellbeing

Introduction: Activity theory, a construct from social gerontology, provides a framework to bridge the themes of ageing and transport, and…

rbh_admin_2318 December 2024

Future mobility in an ageing society – Where are we heading?

The demographic profile of UK society is changing as people live longer. Maintaining the wellbeing and quality of life of…

rbh_admin_2318 December 2024

Road traffic noise, noise sensitivity, noise annoyance, psychological and physical health and mortality

Background: Both physical and psychological health outcomes have been associated with exposure to environmental noise. Noise sensitivity could have the…

rbh_admin_2318 December 2024

Access to urban transportation system for individuals with disabilities

Urbanization and aging population has become a significant issue in many global cities. It is necessary that the design of…

rbh_admin_2318 December 2024

Designing autonomy in cars: A survey and two focus groups on driving habits of an inclusive user group, and group attitudes towards autonomous cars

Autonomous driving is a topic of extensive research; however user views on this new technology are largely unexplored, especially for…

rbh_admin_2318 December 2024

User-centred Information Design for the Traveller

In any consideration of design for transport from the point of view of the user it is self-evident that public…

rbh_admin_2318 December 2024