Schuler Patrik T, D'Souza Clive
Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Proc Hum Factors Ergon Soc Annu Meet. 2021 Feb;64(1):1171-1175.
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) is a universal framework used to classify human functioning in clinical and rehabilitative domains. The objective of this study was to examine the utility of the ICF as a framework to categorize and measure barriers to public transportation reported by older adults. ICF coding techniques were applied to sixty paratransit applications for analyzing user-reported barriers to public transportation. Paratransit users were divided into groups based on age (young old vs. oldest old) and ambulatory level (non- vs. ambulatory). Analysis identified 119 instances of user-reported environmental barriers ranging from technology requirements to system/service-based factors, though the prevalence of different barriers differed across groups. Overall, the methodology appears promising. Understanding the complex relationships between functioning and different transportation barriers experienced by specific sub-populations could help identify unmet transportation needs, generate precise research questions, and support the development of inclusive transportation technologies and systems.
《国际功能、残疾和健康分类》（ICF）是一个通用框架，用于在临床和康复领域对人类功能进行分类。本研究的目的是检验ICF作为一个框架，对老年人报告的公共交通障碍进行分类和测量的效用。ICF编码技术应用于60份辅助公交申请，以分析用户报告的公共交通障碍。辅助公交用户根据年龄（年轻老人与最年长老人）和行动能力水平（非行动能力者与行动能力者）进行分组。分析确定了119例用户报告的环境障碍，范围从技术要求到基于系统/服务的因素，尽管不同障碍的发生率在不同组之间有所不同。总体而言，该方法似乎很有前景。了解特定亚人群的功能与所经历的不同交通障碍之间的复杂关系，有助于识别未满足的交通需求，提出精确的研究问题，并支持包容性交通技术和系统的开发。
