Target audience
Who is intended to use Mobidat?
So far the information given by the database primarily responded to the needs of wheelchair users. In the future Mobidat will also consider the special needs of people with aural, visual and learning disabilities and it will be an orientation for elderly people, parents with baby carriages and tourists with heavy luggage.
The main objective of Mobidat is to create a new informational system that gives user groups the opportunity of linking up to providers of services in the fields of public transport, tourism and media as well as to information technology systems, eg PDA, laptop or mobile phones. The input of data shall be possible for all: mobility-impaired people, citizens, organisations and bodies.
Barrier freedom - only for “fringe groups”?
Barrier freedom does not only concern wheelchair users, hearing-impaired one, visually handicapped and learning disabled people. Ever more people are permanently or occasionally reduced in their mobility and thus dependent on barrier freedom in our society.
Barrier freedom is compellingly necessary for approximately 10% of people living in Berlin.
In addition the increasing number of the retirees, households with infants, traveler with heavy luggage, strongly overweight and frail people, temporarily or permanently gotten sick one and partially also special occupational groups. Therefor the development is important and helpful for the barrier-free infrastructure of the city for approximately a third of the population.
For all other subpopulations barrier freedom is comfortable. For Berlin barrier freedom is also an expression of modernity, world openness and hospitality and represents in the comparison with other metropolises a valuable image gain.