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https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27432/critical-issues-in-transportation-for-2024-and-beyond

DEFINITIONS OF ACCESSIBILITY

Mobility is the ability to move from place to place while accessibiity is the ability to be reached or entered, and does not necessarily imply the ability to travel. Many of the factors that can inhibit access to services have nothing to do with accessible vehicles, transport services or infrastructure, necessary as these are. In practice, lack of information of what services are available, lack of money, lack of confidence or lack of help from operating staff may well limit access more than the physical design of vehicles or infrastructure. A transport system is accessible to a particular group of impaired people if, by its physical design and its operating procedures, it can be used by that group of people without requiring them to do anything that their impairment makes impossible. It is up to the system designer and operator to identify the functions that are made impossible by the impairments of particular user groups, and from the start design the system to avoid the need to perform those functions. It is then necessary to provide information on the services that are available and to find ways to assist potential users who do not have the financial means to use otherwise accessible services.

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  • English

Media Info

  • Media Type: Print
  • Pagination: p. 17-20
  • Monograph Title: IDEAS INTO ACTION. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT FOR ELDERLY AND DISABLED PEOPLE, READING, BERKSHIRE, 16-19 JULY 1995. VOLUMES 1, 2 AND 3

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00823909
  • Record Type: Publication
  • ISBN: 1-871315-50-6
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Feb 6 2002 12:00AM