*4.3.3 Some solutions are here now, if we choose to introduce them*

Addressing many of the points identified will take time as they require significant additional work, changes in behaviour or amendments to legislation. However there are a number of issues where solutions and improvements seem to be readily available or just require minor changes to current material and legislation:


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• Assess support systems in terms of their responsiveness and ease of use and understanding: we already have the knowledge to produce better designed instruction and manuals. Help in "setting up" and operating computers is needed and help services should avoid scripted answers that deter users.

• Make personalised and self-paced learning available when introducing new

• Provide 'senior' preference settings (e.g. larger pictograms, simpler buttons,

We know that as we get older, several cognitive and other psychological aspects decline and a few others improve. In addition there are sometimes other deteriorations of which we may be unaware such as decline due to illness. In addition, there will be more and more both able bodied and incapacitated people for the next two

These things all put increasing requirements onto transport of all kinds. In addition, psychologically, people like their own space in transport, so the future must allow for both public and private means of transport and must be increasingly

The future will not be the same as at present, nor will it necessarily be a modified version of the present. For certain, we will see electric vehicles of all types, and may also see as many or even more vehicles than at present. The problem of vehicle emissions will largely go away, and within two decades in most developed countries. There will be AVs in increasing numbers that essentially must be adaptive to humans in control of other vehicles. Public transport will use Big Data and IoT such that individual travellers can link their own information and convenience needs to the transport availability and will use simple and easy apps on iPad-type devices and eventually wearable devices. For older people, there has to be a full development of MaaS so that personalisable public transport is available for those choosing not to own a programmable AV of their own, or for those no longer able to drive but

• Enabling more personalization of over-functional complex controls on

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reduced complexity) and simplified navigation

technologies.

interfaces.

**5. Conclusions**

decades, at least in most countries.

who seek independence.

accessible if older travellers are to engage.

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