Tracking Movement Patterns of All People

The first step is to collect GPS history of a range of people with different ability levels. Data collected will be immediately anonymised. We have ongoing relationships with the Disabled Person’s Assembly and CCS/Disability Action to gain community feedback from the onset of the development of each project to ensure the approach can be generalised to a variety of ability levels.

This will allow us to compare ‘within-subjects’ (for those who have data before and after they acquire a disability) and ‘between-subjects’ to see where disabled people are going and where they’re not going. Combined with the Accessibility Audits, we will be able to see which types and prevalence of different accessibility features lead to a range of disabled people accessing places.

We provide a tool to compile and anonymise GPS data of people with a wide range of ability levels. From there, we overlap GPS data over a map, or a map with accessibility audit data to see which accessibility features are present. This data visualisation technique paints an overall picture of the travel patterns of people with different ability levels. This will provide crucial data to enable local Councils and businesses to include everyone in the economy and job market.