AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, PARATRANSIT, AND DIALYSIS

In transportation, a potential conflict exists between the needs of people who are dependent on kidney dialysis to support life and the mandates of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), which protects the civil rights of people who are disabled. To address this conflict, baseline information about existing transportation patterns for people on dialysis treatment was established. An original survey questionnaire was administered in person, by trained interviewers, to 289 recipients of dialysis treatments in Delaware. The questions focused on critical transportation issues and were designed to obtain information about transportation user patterns to and from dialysis treatments; transportation modes used to and from dialysis treatments; points of origin and destination; length of trip in distance and time; the way transportation arrangements are made, by whom, and at what cost; and alternative public transportation modes that dialysis riders would be willing to use. Social demographic characteristic questions were also included. Although the understanding of mobility patterns and modes of transportation employed by dialysis users has been increased, the supposition that ADA has created problems directly for dialysis recipients in transportation is not substantiated. Before this research, however, no empirical information was available.

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  • https://doi.org/10.3141/1571-12
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1571, Public Transit 1997: Bus, Paratransit, Intermodal, and Rail.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Denson, C R
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 88-96
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1571
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Data collection; Demographics; Origin and destination; Paratransit services; Surveys; Transportation planning; Travel budgets; Travel costs; Travel modes; Travel patterns; Trip length
• Identifier Terms: Americans with Disabilities Act
• Uncontrolled Terms: Dialysis patients
• Old TRIS Terms: Travel modes
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00741891
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309061512
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Oct 3 1997 12:00AM