Transport for Mobility Handicapped People: The Scottish Experience

Until relatively recently transport policy in Scotland has concentrated heavily on lowering the cost of travel for elderly and disabled people by bus, train, ferry, airplane, and latterly in some areas by taxi. It is certainly a most important aspect of policy, particularly with an aging population and for those on low incomes. Eligibility has recently been extended to the companions of those who are more severely disabled. However, increasing attention is now being given to the inability of many elderly and disabled people to use service however affordable due to the lack of ramps, lifts and toilets, inappropriate routes and timetables, low frequencies, bad design, poor information, etc. etc. Attempts to respond to unmet need through conventional services are made difficult under current public expenditure constraints and particularly because the present government’s deregulation and privatization policies which elevate profitability above social need as the dominant motivation among a larger number of independent operators and reduces the intervention powers of local authorities to establish standards, collect data from networks, and to undertake other direct initiatives. It remains to be seen whether growing public pressure and lobbying for rights and equal opportunities, combined with codes of guidance and encouragement from committed agencies within central and local authorities, will effectively counteract the more general trend or whether in some areas, such as the new generation of wheelchair accessible taxis, a free market can be harnessed.

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  Gordon and Breach Publishers

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• Authors:
  • Rees, Alan
  • Howatt, Hilary
• Conference:
  • Fifth International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons
  • Location: Stockholm , Sweden
  • Date: 1989-5-21 to 1989-5-24
• Publication Date: 1991

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Maps; References;
• Pagination: pp 227-288
• Monograph Title: FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT FOR ELDERLY AND DISABLED PERSONS, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, MAY 21-24, 1989

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged; Air transportation; Barrier free design; Ferry service; Low income groups; Mobility; Mode choice; Persons with disabilities
• Identifier Terms: Transed
• Geographic Terms: Scotland
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01135435
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 2881247636
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 21 2009 8:12AM