高齢者・身障者交通

[IV-105] Initiatives aimed at parking lots that are easy for senior drivers to use(Chuo Expressway outbound Yatsugatake parking area)

〇Hisanaga Sato¹, Wataru Yamamoto¹, Mitsuaki Sakurai², Masatsugu Sahara² (1.Central Nippon Expressway Company, 2.Central Nippon Highway Engineering Tokyo Company)

Keywords:expressway, rest area, senior drivers, parking lots, traffic accident

In order to solve the problems associated with the increase of senior drivers on expressway, as one of the supports for them, we tried a measure of improving parking lots layout to reduce traffic accidents in rest areas. Senior drivers face a problem in that they cannot park and depart smoothly and there is also a risk of contact accidents when walking in parking lots. Therefore, we set up one row of parking lots as "caring parking lots" which enables them to park preferentially. As a result of a survey, parking and departure time was reduced by 10% by using one row of parking lots. However, 25% of senior drivers over 70 replied that they do not use the caring parking lots.