This study has been conducted to derive implications for the body design factors of PBVs that were used under low-speed limit through co-analysis between the characteristics of recent PBVs and domestic speed limit urban traffic environments. It has be...
This study has been conducted to derive implications for the body design factors of PBVs that were used under low-speed limit through co-analysis between the characteristics of recent PBVs and domestic speed limit urban traffic environments. It has been observed that the design factors of PBVs as a type of ground transportation in urban mobility systems can be used for certain purposes after analyzing various developing cases of PBVs domestically and overseas. The implications for a PBV body design had been inferred in this study with the following results: non-aerodynamic boxy exterior body shapes, interior design layouts with flexibility for space usability, including driver position switching, and audio-visual methods to notify pedestrians that a vehicle is approaching in traffic environments. The major factors for design changes in PBVs under speed limit urban traffic environments had been concluded as: non-aerodynamic exterior designs, space variation-oriented interior designs, and audio-visual notification method designs.