TRANSPORTATION: DIRECTIONS FOR ACTION

This document gives consideration to the problems faced by disabled persons in the areas of seeking and obtaining employment, inaccessible public transportation, community-based residential facilities, barrier-architectural or environmental--which limit mobility, access to education and the lack of aids and support services to facilitate fuller participation in society. All modes of transportation are vital to the integration of disabled persons into the main-stream of community living. Any barriers to integration must be eliminated. Access to adequate transportation is often the deciding factor between being dependent upon family members or society and being able to function independently. Governments play the major role in providing funding for, and regulating, transportation; it is their responsibility to make transportation services more accessible to all members of the public.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Bilingual.
• Corporate Authors:

  International Year of Disabled Persons

  P.O. Box 1981, Station C
  Ottawa, ONo K1Y 4N9,   Canada 
• Publication Date: 1981

Media Info

• Pagination: 15 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Mobility; Passenger transportation; Persons with disabilities; Special user groups
• Subject Areas: Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00366903
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 30 1982 12:00AM