Koga Motoya    Department   SOJO UNIVERSITY  Department of Architecture, FACULTY OF ENGINEERING      /Division of Construction Systems Technology, Graduate School of Engineering      /(DC)Division of Socio-Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering    Position
Date	2014/04
Country of Awarding	Japan
Authority to Grant	Chair of Kyushu Branch, CPIJ
Award Name	Highest Award of Poster Session of Kyushu Branch, City Planning Institute of Japan
Title	Proposal for Welfare Town Planning Method and Experimental Development of Support System for Persons with Disabilities
Award Winner(s)	Motoya KOGA, Shinobu IZUMI, Shigehito MATSUBARA
Award Type	Award at Domestic Conference, Meeting or Symposium
Details	In this study, we proposed the method of welfare town planning and experimentally developed the support system for wheelchair users. Our proposed method of welfare town planning is to make a town maintenance plan reflecting wheelchair users opinions by preparing the opportunities that they directly take part in the town planning and actively express their opinions. Furthermore, on the spots of town planning we used a function of our developed wheelchair users support system to quantitatively calculate reduction of physical load for the wheelchair users. The wheelchair users support system has another function. That is one to navigate the wheelchair users to the place which they want to go from the present place. This route is found by calculating the minimum physical load for the wheelchair user.