Design for Transport
eBook - ePub

Design for Transport

A User-Centred Approach to Vehicle Design and Travel

  1. 406 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Design for Transport

A User-Centred Approach to Vehicle Design and Travel

About this book

The central premise of Design for Transport is that the designer's role is to approach design for transport from the point of view of the user. People have a collection of wants and needs and a significant proportion of them are to do with their requirements for mobility. The authors show how creative designers can take a user-focused approach for a wide range of types of transport products and systems. In so doing their starting point is one of creative dissatisfaction with what is currently available, and their specialist capability is in imagining and developing new solutions which respond to that opportunity. How this is tackled varies depending on the context, and the variety of solutions produced reflects the different aspirations and needs of the people they are designing for. The chapters cover user needs and transport, design and the transport system, transport design case studies, and the case for the automobile. A conclusion briefly signals what the future for transport design might be. Lavishly illustrated throughout in four-colour, Design for Transport, is an imaginative and rigorous guide to how designers can take a user-centred and socially responsible approach to tackling a range of types of transport, from systems to products and from bicycles to automobiles, demonstrating a rich array of solutions through case studies.

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Index

All index entries shown here correspond to the page numbers within the printed edition only. Within this digital format these page numbers allow for cross referencing only.
AA 75, 77–8
AA Web-delivered strip map 78
ABS bodywork 236, 296
abuse 53–4, 155
due to the volume of people using public transport facilities 155
from football supporters and school children 148
instances of 53
verbal 53
Access to Air Travel for Disabled People – Code of Practice 144, 151
accessibility 25, 35, 55, 137, 140, 142–5, 150, 160, 162, 206, 245
of controls and storage areas 41
of public transport for excluded groups 56
of services and availability of information 47
Accessibility Specification for Small Buses Designed to Carry 9 to 22 Passengers 143
accessible toilets 151
accidents 24, 45, 48, 54, 150, 245
Acela Express (Amtrak) 141, 161
Acts and Regulations
Air Carrier Access Act (1986) 144
Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) 141–2, 144, 162
California Zero Emissions Legislation 210
Corporate Average Fuel Economy Regulations 210
The Disability Discrimination Act (1995) 140, 142, 144, 153
Equality Act (2010) 140
Public Service Vehicles (Accessibility) Regulations (2000) 142
Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Non-Interoperable Rail System) Regulations (2010) 143
Transport Act (2008) 133
Travel Air Carrier Access Act (1986) 144
Adams, Douglas 45, 102
Advantage West Midlands, see AWM
AEC 140
aerodynamic fairings 170–1
aesthetics 7, 11, 157, 318, 320, 331...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. About the Editor
  10. About the Contributors
  11. Reviews for Design for Transport: A User-Centred Approach to Vehicle Design and Travel
  12. Introduction
  13. Section One User Needs and Transport
  14. Section Two Design and the Transport System
  15. Section Three Transport Design Case Studies
  16. Section Four Transport Design The Case for the Automobile
  17. Index