Question
Coordination, balance or motor-planning difficulties make journeys tiring. What can I plan around?
A route that looks short on a map can contain stairs, long transfers, crowds, luggage handling and time pressure that make it much harder in practice.
Current understanding
Inspect the physical sequence of the journey rather than distance alone: walking and standing time, stairs or lifts, interchange complexity, luggage, boarding time, seating, assistance and a recovery buffer. These planning prompts do not determine eligibility for mobility benefits or transport concessions, and new or worsening physical symptoms need appropriate health assessment.
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What evidence is still needed
- Journey-planning tools that expose transfer and physical-demand information accessibly.
- Evidence on transport barriers experienced by adults with DCD and other coordination disabilities.
Where people may disagree
- Motor difficulty is only one source of travel load; fatigue, pain, sensory input, anxiety and cognitive navigation demands may dominate for another person.
When this answer should be revisited
- Transport planners expose substantially better accessibility metadata.
- Research supports more specific mobility-planning adaptations.
Question provenance and review state
Mobility planning question connecting coordination demands to practical journey design without inferring disability entitlement.