交通弱者の視点で見た路面電車の国内外事情

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In the near future the Japanese society will be dominant of elderly persons with about 25% of the Japanese people more than 65 years old. From this point of view it is necessary that the self-governing bodies and public transportation companies provide sufficient care and facilities to these elderly persons. Recently, many kinds of adjustments are being gradually advanced especially in busses, subways and trains. In Japan, such kind of adjustments are not yet applied for streetcars which is considered one of the most convenient transportaion facilities. These streetcars are reconsidered again Europe and U. S. A. and furthermore had been developed to meet the needs of both the elderly and physically handicapped. As a result these streetcars have successfully provided convenient traffic facilities to these persons and are convenient in energy saving and in reducing heavy traffic problems. The main purpose of this paper is to describe the foreign and domestic states of the streetcars from the point of view of elderly and physically handicapped persons.