Determination of the most suitable disabled route for individuals with orthopedic disabled: İnönü University campus example

Disability affects a significant portion of the world's population. For this reason, it is important to raise awareness, educate and integrate individuals into society, and in this context, it is important to understand the problems that affect people with disabilities. In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the number of universities in our country. However, on university campuses, users with orthopedic disabilities face some problems. It is a well-known fact that designing accessible and compliant campuses for orthopedically disabled people is necessary in terms of sustainability. The aim of this study was to determine which route is the most suitable alternative route for orthopedically disabled people by evaluating the important roads in terms of criteria in the İnönü University campus by using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method, and to compare the results with the results of one-to-one field analysis. As a result of this study, it has been determined that Route 1 (Student dormitories stop-Library route) is the most suitable alternative route for the orthopedically handicapped by evaluating the routes determined on the İnönü University campus in terms of criteria, both with the AHP method and on-site analysis. In addition, the analysis of the road slopes of the determined routes was also made. This study will help to determine where safe and accessible routes should be primarily for orthopedically disabled individuals that can be used in navigation-based smart transportation systems to be created in the future. In addition, this sample pilot study is recommended to be implemented in all cities and it is expected that it can be developed for other disabled individuals.