HANDICAPPED PEOPLE AND TRANSPORTATION SECTOR--MEASURES AND POSSIBILITIES FOR INTEGRATION

Discussions on whether existing public transport services should be made accessible to the handicapped have been going on for years. There is some evidence that handicapped people do need special transport services, and that this need can only be met by new types of transportation systems. The existence of special transport services does not necessarily cut the handicapped off from rest of society as these special services can be combined with regular public transport services. However, special services should not result in a cutback in the efforts to make public transport facilities more easy to use for handicapped people.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • From 9th status seminar on short distance transportation research; Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany, 21 June 1982.
• Authors:
  • Pajonk
• Publication Date: 1984

Language

• German

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 462-469

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Paratransit services; Persons with disabilities; Public transit; Social service agencies
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Public Transportation; Society; Vehicles and Equipment; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00391883
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: CONF08206261
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 29 1985 12:00AM