ABSTRACT
This chapter describes two points: First, advancement of age and development of handicap, how these items are correlated. Secondly, with advancement in age and development of handicap in aged people’s trips what change in their preference of traffic means. It is the already known fact that aged people’s declining physical function is a cause of difficulty in movement on traffic means, resulting in the fall of trip frequency. For possible correlation of age advancement with the handicap rate under the index “difficulty in going upstairs and downstairs”, such difficulty to make it again and over difficult for the handicapped to move by railway or bus through the exertion of vertical movement, there was calculated coefficient of 0.687, such value being large enough to confirm the presence of such correlation. The more serious the handicap developed under whichever of said handicap indexes, the further declining the two items.
