In the TRIPS project, people with reduced mobility are actively involved in shaping inclusive mobility.
In 2018, almost 18 per cent of EU citizens reported living with partial long-term impairments and 7 per cent even with severe long-term impairments, i.e. having a disability ("Eurostat, 2018"). The aim of the Horizon2020 project TRIPS is to empower these people to play a central role in the design of inclusive digital mobility solutions through participatory processes. This is because transport systems that are inaccessible to people with disabilities make it more difficult for them to have equal access to important services, employment opportunities, social participation and the opportunity to lead a self-determined life.
It is currently easier to think about inclusion in new mobility concepts, as transport is currently undergoing dynamic change and new mobility models and transport-related digital solutions, such as navigation apps or augmented reality, are being used worldwide. The TRIPS project aims to create opportunities for those affected to have a greater say and greater scope for shaping the realisation of inclusive mobility from the outset. The project pursues a participatory approach with the aim of actively involving mobility-impaired users in the research as experts on their own mobility and access needs. Users and transport experts are conducting research together, in line with the motto of the European Disability Forum "nothing about us without us".
Over the next three years, TRIPS will analyse the needs and attitudes towards promising mobility concepts and, in particular, describe potential barriers and obstacles to use. In addition, the state of the art in terms of accessibility, supporting technologies and assistance systems will be reflected on the basis of the user requirements of people with disabilities. Together with working groups of users with different mobility impairments, ideas and concepts are developed on how to meet today's challenges and barriers. The jointly developed concepts will be implemented and trialled in seven European pilot cities - Bologna, Brussels, Cagliari, Lisbon, Sofia, Stockholm and Zagreb. As a result, the project aims to present an innovation roadmap and research priorities as well as derive recommendations for political practice.
The DLR Institute of Transportation Systems is leading work package 3 "Mobility, Digital and Accessibility trends and state of the art review", in which current and future mobility systems and technologies are analysed from the perspective of accessibility. The Institute is also involved in qualitative and quantitative user research in work package 2 (User research and needs identification), in which the requirements of users with different access barriers due to disabilities are researched and described in detail.
The aim of the European TRIPS research project is to make public transport more accessible for people with disabilities. To this end, Social Media Content Analysis (SMCA) was developed together with users from seven cities involved in the project. In the following video, Dr. Alexandra König explains the advantages of SMCA for participatory research and describes a step-by-step approach to conducting an SMCA.
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The aim of the European TRIPS research project is to make public transport more accessible for people with disabilities. To this end, Social Media Content Analysis (SMCA) was developed together with users from seven cities involved in the project. In the following video, Dr. Alexandra König explains the advantages of SMCA for participatory research and describes a step-by-step approach to conducting an SMCA.
