Wheelmap: the wheelchair accessibility crowdsourcing platform

Mobasheri, Amin; Deister, Jonas; Dieterich, Holger

doi:10.1186/s40965-017-0040-5

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“…Target groups included people requiring enhanced accessibility; grassroots initiatives supporting people with disabilities; policy-makers, planners, and service providers with responsibility for the built environment; and the general public. Rather than setting up a new platform, the tools to be developed were pilot-tested on established platforms including Wheelmap (Mobasheri, Deister, and Dieterich 2017), OpenRouteService (The Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology 2018), and OpenStreetMap (OSM). Employing tools targeting local initiatives for supporting awareness raising and collective action was necessary.…”

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OpenStreetMap data quality enrichment through awareness raising and collective action tools—experiences from a European project

Mobasheri

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Francis³

2018

Geo-spatial Information Science

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Nowadays, several research projects show interest in employing volunteered geographic information (VGI) to improve their systems through using up-to-date and detailed data. The European project CAP4Access is one of the successful examples of such international-wide research projects that aims to improve the accessibility of people with restricted mobility using crowdsourced data. In this project, OpenStreetMap (OSM) is used to extend OpenRouteService, a well-known routing platform. However, a basic challenge that this project tackled was the incompleteness of OSM data with regards to certain information that is required for wheelchair accessibility (e.g. sidewalk information, kerb data, etc.). In this article, we present the results of initial assessment of sidewalk data in OSM at the beginning of the project as well as our approach in awareness raising and using tools for tagging accessibility data into OSM database for enriching the sidewalk data completeness. Several experiments have been carried out in different European cities, and discussion on the results of the experiments as well as the lessons learned are provided. The lessons learned provide recommendations that help in organizing better mapping party events in the future. We conclude by reporting on how and to what extent the OSM sidewalk data completeness in these study areas have benefited from the mapping parties by the end of the project. ARTICLE HISTORY

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OpenStreetMap data quality enrichment through awareness raising and collective action tools—experiences from a European project

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Francis³

2018

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“…does it have elevators to travel between floors?) and which is evaluated by a different set of tools (examples of which include Wheelmap [23] or Euan's Guide [47]). The aim is to broadly frame and capture the problem in question, so that we can fully justify our proposed approach towards the identification and measurement of barriers.…”

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Analyzing Accessibility Barriers Using Cost-Benefit Analysis to Design Reliable Navigation Services for Wheelchair Users

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Kirkham

Schöning

2019

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019

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This paper explores 'A to B' routing tools designed to chart accessible routes for wheelchair users. We develop and present a novel measurement framework based upon cost-benefit analysis in order to evaluate the real-world utility of routing systems for wheelchair users. Using this framework, we compare proposed routes generated by accessibility tools with the pedestrian routes generated by Google Maps by means of conducting expert assessments of the situation on the ground. Relative to tools aimed at pedestrians, we find that these tools are not significantly more likely to produce an accessible route, and more often than not, they present longer routes that arise from imaginary barriers that do not exist in the real world. This analysis indicates how future routing tools for wheelchair users should be designed to ensure that they genuinely ameliorate the effects of accessibility barriers in the built environment.

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“…An example is the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project [12], which provides open geospatial data for routing and navigation. OSM is used for planning of urban public transportation networks [13], assessing the completeness of bicycle trails and designated lane features [14], as the base for testing advanced journey planning visualization [15], as well as in research on the availability of transportation for people with mobility restrictions [16,17]. Despite complaints about the quality of OSM data, there are studies about methods for improvement of the quality of data in OSM, also used in the European transportation [18], which provides an opportunity for extensive use of OSM in the future.…”

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Transport Accessibility of Warsaw: A Case Study

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In this study, we detected which means of transportation is beneficial from a travel time perspective in specific districts of Warsaw, Poland. To achieve this goal, we proposed a framework to perform a spatial analysis to describe the as-is situation in the city (the state that the situation is in at the present time). The framework contains the following elements: attractiveness analysis, travel time and speed analysis, and potential accessibility analysis. The relationship between the averaged nominal travel speed and the number of residents was also investigated. We used data from a journey planner, as well as land use and population statistics, and employed descriptive analytics. The results are presented as maps of travel times, travel speed, and potential accessibility, as well as scatter plots of dependencies between travel speed and number of residents. Unfortunately, public transportation ranks behind car and bike transport in terms of travel time, speed, and potential accessibility. The largest positive influence on effectiveness of traveling by public transportation is the metro and railway system; also, bikes can perfectly complement the public transportation system. The obtained results can be used to indicate directions of changes in the transportation system of Warsaw.

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Wheelmap: the wheelchair accessibility crowdsourcing platform

Cited by 66 publications

References 27 publications

OpenStreetMap data quality enrichment through awareness raising and collective action tools—experiences from a European project

OpenStreetMap data quality enrichment through awareness raising and collective action tools—experiences from a European project

Analyzing Accessibility Barriers Using Cost-Benefit Analysis to Design Reliable Navigation Services for Wheelchair Users

Transport Accessibility of Warsaw: A Case Study

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