Evaluating Mobility in Marketing Places for Entrepreneurial Disabled, Case Study: Central Market Area Kuala Lumpur

Bahar Fardnia; Nordin Abdul Rahman; Mohd Yazid Mohd Yunos; Md Azree Othuman Mydin

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.747.176

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Evaluating Mobility in Marketing Places for Entrepreneurial Disabled, Case Study: Central Market Area Kuala Lumpur

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This article is about evaluating the easy mobility in selected KL busy market places for understanding the potential of these places for disabled’s to work there independently. In this subject, mobility and safety are the tree main categories for disables to go out. Interview and observation are two methods which have been used, then supported them with photos. The results show there are many weaknesses for making the marketing places disables friendly. There are many famous and traditional marketing areas in KL which they can give opportunity to disables to start their own business. Therefore, they should define new standards to do some renovation and make new maintained schedule to give more chance to disables for starting their own independent life.

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Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 747)

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Bahar Fardnia, Nordin Abdul Rahman, Mohd Yazid Mohd Yunos*, Md Azree Othuman Mydin

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Disabled, Entrepreneurship, Marketing Place

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