Tag: Wheelchair Navigation
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Two open thesis topics related to the improvement of OpenStreetMap data
As has been announced earlier in our blog, there are open thesis topics within the EU-project CAP4ACCESS. Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group is a project partner of CAP4ACCESS. Other project partners include UCL, Fraunhofer and sozialhelden.de with their wheelmap.org project. The goal of CAP4ACCESS is to improve the accessibility of mobility-restricted people, in particular those…
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Field experiment: deriving pedestrian sidewalk information using LIDAR technology
On 11th of September, the second experiment for the CAP4Access project for Heidelberg pilot city was performed by Smart Simulation group (led by Mohamed Bakillah) with collaboration of LIDAR research group of Heidelberg University. Bernhard Höfle, Amin Mobasheri and Evelyn Schmitz participated in this fieldwork, using RIEGL VZ-400 laser scanning device in order to collect…
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Field experiment: a low-cost approach for deriving pedestrian sidewalk network data
As a task for CAP4Access project, on Monday 11th of August, members of the Smart Simulation group (Mohamed Bakillah, Amin Mobasheri and Sarah Labusga) of GIScience at Heidelberg University performed a field experiment together with people with limited mobilities. Several GPS trackers (with different characteristics and predefined parameters for data collection) were installed on three wheelchairs and for a selected…