PASSAge: Personalized Mobility, Assistance and Service Systems in an Ageing Society
The demographic change in modern societies has a significant impact on the future planning of self-determined mobility and mobility means. An optimized accessibility of the means of transportation is required, as well as their connection towards buildings
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chert and H. Klausing (eds.), Ambient Assisted Living, Advanced Technologies and Societal Change, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37988-8_8, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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modular and compatible to the mobility means of the users. Barrier-free accessibility according to the existing norms can address these problems only partially. Broader and holistic concepts are needed here. The project PASSAge aims at the implementation of seamless mobility chains that smoothly connect private and public space. Mobility shall be ensured by the extension of existing mobility means with user-oriented components. The project follows the approach to complement the barrier-free access and usage of public transportation with mostly electrically powered compact vehicles and micro vehicles. These have to be adapted by physical means and information technology means to residences and building structures. Core of the project is to develop a flexible socio-technical infrastructure with a multitude of mobility means and modular buildings, thus creating synergy effects. An important goal of the approach is the development of business models, which allow for and ensure the allocation and coordination of mobility services. Interfaces will be created for all compact vehicles and micro vehicles that extend their functionality both digitally and physically and thereby enable their ubiquitous connection to the envisioned services.
D. Kurz metaio GmbH, Munich, Germany e-mail: [email protected] A. Winkler A. König N. Holzer SOPHIA mit P.S. Südbayern gGmbH, Holzkirchen, Germany e-mail: [email protected] A. König e-mail: [email protected] N. Holzer e-mail: [email protected] M. Siegrist A. Pressler Technische Universität München, Department for Prevention, Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, Munich, Germany e-mail: [email protected] A. Pressler e-mail: [email protected] M. Heuberger K. Wessig Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Generation Research Program, Bad Tölz, Germany e-mail: [email protected] K. Wessig e-mail: [email protected] M. Kranz Department of Informatics and Mathematics, Universität Passau, Passau, Germany e-mail: [email protected]
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1 Motivation and Background ‘‘Everyone wants to grow old, but nobody wants to be old.’’ This saying can be heard quite often. In most cases, it refers to the ailments accompanying the process of growing old. Especially the physical handicaps have a serious negative effect on the mobility of the elderly people. Distances young and healthy people can do in minutes on foot can get an insuperable barrier for the elderly. In rural and smalltown contexts, larger distances have often to be traveled to reach, for example, the next clothing shop or specialist. At the same time, public transportation is often underdeveloped in these contexts. That means, for example, the nearest station is too far away for reaching it on fo
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