How to Make Elderly Mobility Safe: Voice of Residents

Regarding traffic safety, Japan has been generally evaluated as a successful country in the world being with less traffic accident fatalities, but the traffic safety issue is still one of the most important issues. In Japan, elderly people share 28.5% of total population in 2020. How to make elderly’s mobility sustainable and safe has been a very serious issue in Japan since several years ago. The project, to be reported here, focused on Aichi Prefecture which had been famous with the worst position of traffic accident fatality ranking in Japan for 16 yr from 2003 to 2018. However, the traffic accident fatalities in 2019 told us that Aichi succeeded exiting from the worst position. In this paper, the authors are mainly going to report on what we did in the 2018 project and mainly on what kinds of voice of residents had been taken into consideration.