PROVISIONS FOR THE (VISUALLY) HANDICAPPED IN GOUDA, THE NETHERLANDS

This paper describes an experiment carried out in the city of Apeldoorn in 1982. A path covered with rubber tiles connected the railway station and the bus station so that blind and people with impaired vision could change transport mode easily. Three other measures to help handicapped people are also described: 1) the making of a film "Samen of weg" (accessible roads for all) showing four handicapped people and the problems they encounter in everyday life; 2) first issue of a manual for traffic engineers containing an inventory of all possible infrastructure provisions for handicapped people; 3) demonstration project in the town of Gouda, where a complete network of routes is being devised for handicapped people. For the covering abstract of the seminar see TRIS 456275.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Traffic Operation and Management. Proceedings of Seminar M held at the PTRC Summer Annual Meeting, University of Sussex, England, 15-18 July 1985, V P269.
• Corporate Authors:

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• Authors:
  • van der Meulen, S
• Conference:
  • Planning & Transport Res & Comp, Sum Ann Mtg, Proc
• Publication Date: 1985

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 227-233

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Barriers (Roads); Blindness; Bus terminals; Cinematography; Conferences; Design; Equipment; Itinerary; Layout; Networks; Persons with disabilities; Railroad stations; Roads; Rubber; Surfacing; Traffic engineering; Transfers; Urban areas; Vision disorders; Walkways
• Uncontrolled Terms: Barriers; Road networks
• Geographic Terms: Netherlands
• Old TRIS Terms: Transferring
• ITRD Terms: 2075: Blindness; 6752: Cinematography; 8525: Conference; 9011: Design (overall design); 1726: Disabled person; 3674: Equipment; 699: Itinerary; 2885: Layout; 8078: Netherlands; 7494: Rubber; 2972: Surfacing; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Design; Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Society; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00456294
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 31 1987 12:00AM