The Evaluation and Strategy Analysis of Urban Transportation Systems for Elderly People: A Case Study of Resident in Taipei Municipal Haoran Senior Citizens Home / 高齡者之都市運輸系統評估與策略分析-以台北市浩然敬老院院民為例

碩士 / 國立臺北大學 / 都市計劃研究所 / 95 / Because of the progress of medical science and living environment in the twentieth-one century, people’s life is continuously extending. Change of child birth habit decreases birthrate and ages population structure. The tendency of aging population influences everyone in the world and causes worldwide problems. Most of the previous studies in Taiwan focused on eldercare, and ignored elder’s demand in transportation. Therefore, it is very important to explore the transportation demand of elders and develop strategies of urban transportation systems according to their demand.
The objective of this study was to figure elder’s demand on urban transportation systems and develop transportation strategies for elders. The study began with developing evaluation criteria via literature review. Then questionnaire surveys on an elder, who lives in Taipei Municipal Haoran Senior Citizens Home, where processed. Analytic network process and forward-backward approach were employed to explore elder’s demand on urban transportation systems and to develop necessary strategies.
This study achieve the following contributions: first, a clear and comprehensive evaluation system for assessing that elder’s transportation demand is recommended. Second, the relative importance or weight for each criterion is investigated, and can be applied to evaluate transportation projects. Third, the opinion distinctions of urban transportation systems between expert and elder are identified. Finally, this study recommends the government to the following two strategies: (1) popularizing transportation safety education and training, and (2)improving the existed transportation facilities. The strategies will satisfy elder’s demand and establish a nice moving environment for elders.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/095NTPU0347018
Date January 2007
CreatorsMING-SHAN SIE, 謝明珊
ContributorsJEN-JIA LIN, 林楨家
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format128

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