Accessible Design and Fabrication of Wheelchair Ramp for Public Bus Transportation and Design Study Based on SolidWorks Simulation

Abstract

There are an estimated 5.6% people in Bangladesh who have a disability of one kind or another and about 28% of disabled people have physical disabilities. Movement accessibility is an important enabler of strategies to fight poverty through enhancing access to education, employment, and social services. However there is no special facilities for the disabled people in Bangladesh in the transportation sector. People using wheelchair find hard to embark and disembark into a public transport. This paper represents the design parameter and fabrication of wheelchair ramp for persons with physical disabilities for public bus transportation. The design of the ramp is based upon the guidelines of ADA. Design Study was conducted for different material on SolidWorks Simulation However regarding the present situation in Dhaka city there is some limitation regarding the dimensions of the ramp in the practical application. Some solution was suggested to eliminate the limitation.