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Elderly Sustainable Mobility: Scientific Paper Review
- Source :
- Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 7319, p 7319 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2020.
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Abstract
- The number of elderly people as a proportion of the world’s population is growing significantly. Special attention to the accessibility and mobility requirements of this group is needed. The contribution of this paper is a review of travel patterns, mode preferences, infrastructure solutions, accessibility indices, mode choice models and datasets as they relate to elderly mobility. Key findings highlight the role of residential location characteristics in shaping elderly travel patterns, helping to explain why research on elderly travel has largely relied on case studies to date. The review also summarizes a range of indices that have been developed to measure public transport and walking accessibility among the elderly, including distance and time-based methods. Future research should consider the dominance of private transport in facilitating elderly mobility and its implications for cities experiencing an aging population.
- Subjects :
- Residential location
Population ageing
Geography, Planning and Development
Population
0211 other engineering and technologies
TJ807-830
02 engineering and technology
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
TD194-195
elderly
Renewable energy sources
elderly accessibility index
ComputerApplications_MISCELLANEOUS
0502 economics and business
Elderly people
GE1-350
Mode choice
education
Private transport
050210 logistics & transportation
education.field_of_study
Public economics
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
05 social sciences
021107 urban & regional planning
elderly transport accessibility
social sciences
humanities
mobility
Environmental sciences
elderly active transport
Dominance (economics)
Public transport
elderly sustainable transport
Business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 7319
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9017385e209f93eac523c8c7ad6128e8