Working Toward Mobility with Handicapped and Elderly Persons

This paper will present a case study of citizen participation in the transportation planning process. The paper is written from the perspective of a transportation planner who is responsible for technical assistance and liaison between transportation handicapped individuals and their advocacy groups in metropolitan Boston, Massachusetts. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the potential for substantive participation by consumers and other interested persons, the actual course of the planning process and its relation to what is produced. The focus of the paper is on the development of a Transition Plan by the regional transit authority, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). The plan is part of a requirement by the United Stated Department of Transportation (USDOT) to implement Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

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  Gordon and Breach Publishers

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• Authors:
  • Snyder, M H
• Conference:
  • Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Handicapped Persons
  • Location: Cambridge , United Kingdom
  • Date: 1981-7-14 to 1981-7-16
• Publication Date: 1982

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 145-157
• Monograph Title: MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT FOR ELDERLY AND HANDICAPPED PERSONS. PROCEEDINGS OF A CONFERENCE HELD AT CHURCHILL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, JULY 14-16, 1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advocacy groups; Aged; Consumers; Persons with disabilities; Physical disabilities; Public participation; Regional planning; Transportation disadvantaged persons; Transportation planning
• Identifier Terms: Transed
• Geographic Terms: Boston (Massachusetts)
• Subject Areas: Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01113452
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0-677-16380-0
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 22 2008 7:40AM