The Elevated Design Access System is a unique Disabled lift system designed to enable fast and simple entrance to multiple passenger transport vehicles. Whilst simple and efficient in its design, the system identifies and resolves the most crucial aspects of access and its numerous environments of application. The design has evolved to provide optimum performance integrated with ease of installation in to the range of current vehicles used in transporting the mobility-restricted and wheelchair bound population. This system is also retro-fitable to vehicles which are already in use in transport fleets.1
The Elevated Design Access System provides a range of benefits to both the user and the vehicle operator as well as increasing the overall appeal and ease of public transport to the disabled population:
Entrance and exit of the system orientates the user parallel to the vehicle vastly reducing the space envelope outside the vehicle required for deployment of the system. Unlike other available systems, the Elevated Design Access System is able to operate within the dimensions of a standard pavement. This greatly increases the versatility of the system and the locations in which an access system can be used, reducing disruption at coach station stances and making situations such as rural road verges suitable for loading.
The system orientation parallel to the vehicle also reduces the amount of manoeuvring and turning required by the user when entering the vehicle. Coming from the rear of the vehicle towards the front, the user must simply roll on to the lift system and roll off backwards into the restraint system located at the front two off-side seat of the vehicle. Optimisation of the space required inside the vehicle results in the minimum amount of adapted seats for wheelchair restraint.
The Elevated Design Access System utilises the existing door aperture for operation allowing minimal disruption to existing vehicle design, manufacturing and assembly operations.
Electro-mechanical components in the system requires that minimal additional technologies such as compressors or hydraulic units need be installed in to the vehicle. This optimised design ensures durability and reliability are maintained throughout the products life cycle.
The discreet under-stair storage location provides nominal disruption to the storage of the product and the operation involved during deployment.
The system has a full manual override function to allow for users to exit the vehicle in the event of power failure.
