Journal article
Evaluation of age-friendly guidelines for public buses
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Vol.53, pp.68-80
2013
Abstract
Background: Older people commonly experience difficulty using public transport, and identify a range of barriers and facilitators to bus use. Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of implementing age-friendly guidelines for public buses on bus use, useability and social participation for older people. Methodology: Age-friendly changes were implemented in Hervey Bay, Queensland, over a 3 year period. Changes included more lower floor buses, age-awareness training for bus drivers, more frequent scheduling, improved pedestrian infrastructure, a bus buddy program and trial of a flexible route bus. Brisbane, Queensland, served as a control site. This study adopted two complementary methodologies for evaluating the impact of age-friendly changes. The first study incorporated on-board satisfaction surveys with 335 bus users. The second involved a repeated measures cohort study (n = 100) with bus users and non-users. Results: Implementation of age-friendly changes in Hervey Bay, Queensland, resulted in improved satisfaction with, and perceived useability of, the bus system. Participants in Hervey Bay maintained their bus use and social activity participation, while participants in Brisbane experienced a decline in ease of bus use and social activity participation over the intervention period. Conclusion: The implementation of age-friendly guidelines for public buses may improve the useability of bus systems for older people and result in maintenance of participation in social activities.
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- Title
- Evaluation of age-friendly guidelines for public buses
- Authors
- Kieran Broome (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and EngineeringL E Worrall (Author) - University of QueenslandJ M Fleming (Author) - University of QueenslandD P Boldy (Author) - Curtin University of Technology
- Publication details
- Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Vol.53, pp.68-80
- Publisher
- Pergamon
- Date published
- 2013
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.tra.2013.05.003
- ISSN
- 0965-8564
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Health and Sport Sciences - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449051702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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