RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SPECIAL TRANSPORT FOR DISABLED PEOPLE

Recent developments in services have focussed predominantly on the need to provide disabled people with transport akin to a bus or taxi offering them, as much as possible, services similar to those enjoyed by able-bodied people. In most cases this has therefore involved the use of adapted vehicles (e.g. with lifts or ramps) capable of carrying people who cannot bend easily, cannot climb steps or who may be confined to a wheelchair. It is the intention of this paper to concentrate on these new schemes, including some of the older ones which are sympathetic to the new ideas. A list of relevant schemes was therefore compliled from various sources and is presented in full in the appendix.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Oxford

  Transport Studies Unit, 11 Bevington Road
  Oxford,   United Kingdom  OX2 6NB
• Authors:
  • BAILEY, J
  • Appleby, L
• Publication Date: 1983-12

Media Info

• Pagination: 82 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aerodynamic lift; Buses; Persons with disabilities; Taxicabs; Vehicle design; Wheelchairs
• Uncontrolled Terms: Lifts
• Old TRIS Terms: Bus design
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Public Transportation; Society; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00386725
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: TSU/REF-239
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 30 1984 12:00AM