ABSTRACT
Transportation planners and designers are looking to ergonomics more and more to ensure the efficiency, utility, acceptability, and even safety of newly developing systems. A factor, leading to Transportation Development Centre’s adoption of this perspective is undoubtedly their experience in their Elderly and Disabled Program which, with early insight, has used ergonomics in its research and development R&D projects for over a decade. The inclusion in building codes of sections on the disabled reflects the seriousness of governments in attempting to facilitate access of disabled citizens to mainstream societal activities and services. A fundamental ergonomics principle states in effect that, if configurations and coding for any system are consistent both within and across situations, people will perform, better in those situations. All manner of vehicles and other technical devices have been developed over the past ten years or so with a view to increasing transportation opportunities for those with motor or communication disablements.
