ADCOSSAge Friendly Cities Forum

Accessibility in age-friendly Auckland

27 August 2015

by

Vivian Naylor

Accessible (and safe) journeys

Dependent upon:

•The design of pavements & intersections•Personal mobility modes •Public transport modes •Designing to overcome topography •Getting into and through buildings and•Evacuating a building in an emergency

For ALL ages and stages in life

The design of

pavements & intersections

in a

vehicle-centric city

Undulating pavement Great South Road, Greenlane

NZTA RTS 14 Road and Traffic Standard Series

Roundabout at Onehunga

Personal mobility modes

Great range of personal mobility models being

developed catering for all ages and abilities

Shopmobility UK

• Manual and power wheelchairs

• Mobility scooters • Rollators (walking

aids with seats) • Portable hearing

loops

A service for both locals and tourists

Airwheels

Electric scooters

Public transport modes

Designing inclusively results in greater patronage

First universally accessible bus in Auckland

Now we need to train the bus drivers…...

Public transport – Electric trains

Designing to overcome topography

Linkage buildings

and

Universal design Universal design into and through buildings

Linkage Buildings

Linkage building – ‘Atrium on Elliott’

Evacuating a building in an emergency

All about Access - What about Egress?

Example of egress signage – in the UK

Visual Alarms

Evacuation chair

No safe place to wait in a non-sprinklered multi-storey building.

It’s not just wheelchair users who cannot manage stairs to self -evacuate

John Duncan, then President of the Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, and BRANZ Manager, Building Industry Research wrote an editorial in BIA News (June 2001).

He noted that “a building that precisely met the requirements of the collection of [requirements] in a performance-based code system should be regarded as the worstworst possible acceptable building under that code! ……. While we have increasingly developed a good understanding of the physical product, the ‘people’ elements are not as well understood”.