Design for Transport

A User-Centred Approach to Vehicle Design and Travel

Mike Tovey, Mike Tovey

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Année: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781317152316
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Politica e relazioni internazionali
• Sous-sujet: Politica pubblica di pianificazione locale e regionale

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.

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...