User-Specific Route Planning for People with Motor Disabilities: A Fuzzy Approach

Autor: Amin Gharebaghi, Mir-Abolfazl Mostafavi, Geoffrey Edwards, Patrick Fougeyrollas
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Vol 10, Iss 2, p 65 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2220-9964
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi10020065
Popis: Mobility is fundamental for social participation. Everyone benefits from pedestrian networks for their mobility and daily activities. People without disabilities may have little difficulty walking on narrow sidewalks, over potholes, and so on. However, people with motor disabilities (PWMD) may find it more difficult to deal with such conditions. For PWMD, even routine trips are often fraught with problems, with many different obstacles restricting their mobility and consequently rendering their participation in social and recreational activities difficult. The potential problems and risks associated with mobility for PWMD could be significantly reduced if navigation systems provided them with appropriate accessible routes. These routes should consider PWMD’s personal capabilities as well as sidewalk-network conditions. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for computing a user-specific route for PWMD. Such a route is personalized based on the user’s confidence to deal with obstacles such as slopes, uneven pavement, etc. We show how user reported confidence levels could be used to aggregate sidewalk conditions in a routing model to offer user-specific routes. The proposed methodology was developed using a fuzzy approach and is evaluated by manual wheelchair users in Quebec City.
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