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What Is The Meaning Of Wheelchair Accessible Bus

Definition of Wheelchair Accessible Bus

Accessible Vehicle Bus is a wheelchair-accessible bus, which breaks the physical barriers brought by the traditional vehicles for wheelchair users by changing the structure of the vehicle and innovative engineering technology. By changing the vehicle structure and innovative engineering technology, it breaks the physical barriers of traditional vehicles for wheelchair users, and is an excellent public transportation for wheelchair users and people with limited mobility to travel outdoors. According to the statistics of the World Health Organization, there are more than 1 billion people with mobility problems in the world. Accessible Vehicle Bus has a special wheelchair space inside, which can fix the wheelchair and ensure the smooth passage of the wheelchair users, and it is an important carrier to help the wheelchair users, the elderly, the disabled and other groups to realize independent travel.

1、Space and Function

• Stepless Entrance

The external entrance of the vehicle adopts a motorized ramp with an inclination angle of ≤7°, or directly adopts a vertical lifting platform, which, together with the non-slip texture and safety guardrail, greatly improves the efficiency of the wheelchair entry and exit, which is realized as a shortening of 5 minutes to 30 seconds.

• Wheelchair parking area

Accessible Vehicle Buses are equipped with a 1.5 x 1.5 meter wheelchair parking area, with four-point seatbelt fasteners and adjacent seats that can be folded down to make room. The floor height is lowered by 30 centimeters in some models, creating a "low-floor" structure.

• Convenient operating system

door buttons, armrests are height-adapted to seated users (80-120 cm from the ground), and a voice announcement system assists visually impaired passengers in identifying stations.

2、Intelligence and safety

• Intelligent dispatch system

A cab company in London has realized the reservation of accessible vehicles through APP, and the response speed has been increased by 40%, and the waiting time has been controlled within 8 minutes.

• Health guardian technology

Toyota Welcab series can be equipped with ECG monitoring seats for vehicles, and factual detection of heart rate for wheelchair users; Accessible Vehicle Bus's in-vehicle first-aid equipment storage is with voice guidance function.

• Autonomous Driving Convergence

The Waymo driverless test vehicle has incorporated an automatic wheelchair parking function, which accurately recognizes obstacles through LiDAR and has a parking error of less than 2 cm.

3、Social Value

• The U.S. Transportation Research Board says that when a city's accessible transportation network is gradually improved, it can increase the employment rate of people with disabilities by 27%.

• The introduction of Accessible Vehicle Bus in Fukuoka City, Japan has increased the attendance rate of Fukuoka's elderly outpatient clinic by 19%, and enabled the disabled to go out on their own.

• The disabled can go out independently, have interviews, and go to parties by taking the Accessible Vehicle Bus.

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