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Title: INTRODUCING AND SUSTAINING ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT: SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL CHALLENGES
Accession Number: 00983335
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: Improvements in transportation accessibility are being made in the Netherlands. The Ministry of Transport issued leaflets with suggestions to direct development, and Delft University of Technology was asked to illustrate these suggestions with practical examples. In the course of this effort, enough material was collected to present a comparative state of the art. Bus systems in seven areas were critiqued. The assessment showed that progress in certain aspects was more prominent than in others. Low-floor buses are being introduced nearly everywhere, but the adaptation of bus stops is lagging behind. Ideas about bus interiors are rather confused. One essential feature, the seat, is treated unsatisfactorily. The driving behavior of bus drivers often does not take vulnerable passengers into account. Accessibility actually decreases in some cases because of insufficient specifications in contracts. Further progress in accessibility seems to require more guidelines and information campaigns.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1885, Transportation Management and Public Policy 2004.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 00983332
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: de Boer, EPagination: p. 15-20
Publication Date: 2004
Serial: ISBN: 0309094801
Features: Figures
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; References
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; Tables
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TRT Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Dec 16 2004 12:00AM
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