Good practices and universal accessibility to urban buses of children prams

Passive Safety of Children Carriages on Busses

“…The recommendations developed in this section have been inspired and grouped based on the Code of Good Practice developed as a result of the ASUCAR and ASUCAR-2 projects [13,20,22], so that it can be used by the different agents involved in public transportation services: operators and public transport companies, manufacturers, user and consumer associations, as well as public administrations. The Code of Good Practice has been structured in three categories:…”

“…Finally, in the study conducted by [9,13,14], the maximum and minimum dimensional gauges corresponding to more than 150 types of ChC were determined, both in the folded and unfolded configurations. The values obtained allowed to define the most extreme gauges from the dimensions measured on the up-to-date market ChC.…”

“…During the development of the ASUCAR project, up to 77 models of continuous low-floor busses interiors were analyzed, representing the majority of large capacity urban accessible vehicles to transport ChC [13]. The objective of this analysis was based on determining which configurations of accessible vehicles to WhCh minimum and maximum dimensions of the front and rear bus aisles, the number of access doors and the length of space reserved for WhCh of the vehicle, and the number of referenced WhCh which fit in it were established-1200 mm length, 700 mm width, and 1350 mm height [11,15].…”

“…Also, the maximum number of ChC that could be located in the area reserved for the ChC was determined. The results of the comparative study are shown in [13] and can be summarized as follows:…”