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| General Principles
of Universal Design Policy |
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| III. Specific measures |
| 10. |
Comprehensive
spread of pioneering efforts (leading projects and leading areas) |
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The entire Ministry of Land, Infrastructure
and Transport will develop more advanced measures based on the concept
of universal design and introduce the successful results nationwide
by effectively supporting efficient and pioneering efforts by project
and by region based on the characteristics of problems encountered
according to conditions in each region in order to encourage such
pioneering efforts that contribute to the widespread introduction
of universal design. |
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(Specific
cases)
[Redevelopment of new towns]
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In residential districts such as Tama
New Town or Senri New Town that were developed between 30 and 40 years
ago, facilities have deteriorated and declined, the population has
aged, and the period of overall redevelopment is approaching. Therefore,
this situation is taken as the opportunity to redevelop multi-function
cities based on the concept of universal design as places where diverse
people can live, work, and relax. |
[Realization of airports that anyone can use easily]
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Taking the Sendai Airport that will be
accessible by rail beginning in 2007 as a model, the Universal Design
Promotion Committee was established to undertake comprehensive measures
including gathering opinions from a wide range of people including
airport users, taking steps to achieve continuous barrier free state
between the railway station and the airport terminal, completing information
provision systems, and establishing a personnel training system. Efforts
will be made to introduce the results at other airports nationwide. |
[Smoothing transfers at large scale terminals]
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By forming consultative committees of
railway and bus service operators and facility managers (regional
governments etc.) and at the same time by providing concentrated support
in cooperation with related business such as contractors that perform
station improvement work or that construct bus terminals or pedestrian
decks in front of railway stations at large-scale terminals where
passengers transfer between many busses and trains, measures such
as providing integrated easily understood transfer guidance and improving
transfer routes are undertaken to smooth the use of public transportation
systems at transfer points (beginning this year, at Sannomiya (City
of Kobe), studies will begin to form a concrete consensus). |
[Tourist regions]
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Several locations in Japan have been selected
for a study of the needs of tourist regions based on the concept of
universal design-the construction of a basic concept, the provision
of uniform guide signs, standardized equipping of toilets for handicapped
people, deploying volunteers, and so on-in order to create tourist
regions that elderly and handicapped people can tour safety and comfortably. |
[Roads]
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The establishment of Daily Life Street
Zones (in Matsuyama City in Ehime Prefecture for example) is promoted
to create high quality living environments by prioritizing the safe
and convenient use by pedestrians over use by automobiles by preventing
through traffic and at the same time, planting trees along roads linked
to the road side vegetation, removing power poles etc. |
[Parks]
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At the Showa Kinen Park and similar parks,
physical measures such as providing pathways and playgrounds and removing
barriers from toilets are accompanied by non-physical measures such
as training volunteers to assist handicapped people and preparing
barrier free maps to create urban parks that anyone can enjoy without
anxiety. |
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