Silver Road Design: Elderly Friendly Highway Design

Silver Road Design: Elderly Friendly Highway Design

Ying, H.

Van Egmond, R. (mentor)
Molenbroek, J. (mentor)
Van Doorn, E. (mentor)
Van Konijnenburg, P. (mentor)

Industrial Design Engineering

Industrial Design

Master of Science Design for Interaction

2010-12-17

Elderly Friendly Highway Design (EFHD) is done for Rijkswaterstaat. The EFHD project explores elderly drivers’ problems in the driving on highways and makes suggestions to RWS designers so as that they could take into account elderly drivers when designing and rebuilding Dutch highway in the future. Through the literature research, observational research and creative session discussion of EFHD research, it is found that the main influences of elderly drivers on the highway interchange are their restricted vision, uncertainty, tiredness, worse judgement of distance, slow merging speed, and overload information on the road. Elderly drivers need confidence and small quantity of workload. And the road should offer a peaceful and safe driving atmosphere, convey required information efficiently and guide elderly drivers in behaving correctly. Four road design concepts are created to build elderly driv­ers' confidence when they merge into main traffic stream on the highway by helping them to judge a perfect timing to merge with sufficient speed and gap acceptance, and by stimulating them on main traffic stream to cooperate with merging drivers.

elderly drivers
highway interchange
road design

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Campus only

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2010 Ying, H.