Connected mobility aids: Supporting physically impaired traffic participants with vehicle-to-X communication

Due to population ageing, the number of people that depend on mobility aids, such as walking frames, mobility scooters, or wheel chairs, will increase steadily over the next decades. In order to support the physical impaired outside traffic participants, barrier-free navigation and trip planning solutions have been developed. In this work, we go beyond these approaches and investigate potential benefits arising from the integration of mobility aids in vehicle-to-x communication. We argue that this can lead to increased safety for all traffic participants as well as to a more efficient mobility for the physically impaired people as individual requirements can be met.