A performance-based approach to wheelchair accessible route analysis

This paper presents a method to determine if a usable wheelchair accessible route in a facility exists using motion-planning techniques. We use a `performance-based' approach to predict the performance of a facility design against requirements of a building code. This approach has advantages over the traditional `prescriptive' code-based approach for assessing acceptability of designs, which is normal practice today for assessing wheelchair accessibility. The prescriptive method can be ambiguous, contradictory, complex, and unduly restrictive in practice, and it can be ad hoc and dif

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: AEI
• Authors: Charles S. Han, Kincho H. Law, Jean-Claude Latombe, John C. Kunz
• Keywords: Actual Possible Behaviors, AEI 2002, Building Code, Prescriptive