Abstract
Pedestrian route planning presents unique challenges compared to relatively well established car routing applications. The challenges are even more pronounced when also considering a diverse user group, which includes people with disabilities. Existing research has identified environmental features that are important to pedestrians with disabilities, but there are still a number of outstanding problems that have hindered the development of a widespread, usable solution. We developed the EUG Access web application (http://geog.uoregon.edu/geocog/eugaccess) to implement an approach to pedestrian routing that incorporates environmental accessibility and responds to the needs and preferences of a diverse user population. This paper reviews related literature and reports our experience through three phases of development: personalization , route calculation, and interface design. It concludes by drawing attention to issues that we propose are critical to successfully incorporating environmental accessibility into future pedestrian routing applications.
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This work undertaken as part of the graduate student seminar Accessible Maps, and we acknowledge and are grateful for the contribution of work by our peers and colleagues who designed and collected survey data as part of a Research Methods course. We would like to also thank Jacob Bartruff for his assistance and guidance through the design and implementation of the network.
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Brittell, M., Grummon, C., Lobben, A., Omri, M., Perdue, N. (2017). Accessibility in Pedestrian Routing. In: Peterson, M. (eds) Advances in Cartography and GIScience. ICACI 2017. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57336-6_33
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