Disability Inclusive Public Transport: Practical steps to making public transport disability inclusive
This Policy Brief is a timely response to the growing demand for sound policy advice and practical toolkits
Abstract
Globally, persons with disabilities account for a total of over 1 billion or 15 percent of the world’s population. Too often, they experience challenging poverty, marginalization and exclusion in society. The existence of cultural and physical barriers, among other factors, are major contributors to the obstacles persons with disabilities, their families and communities face. Lack of inclusive environments often lead to deprivation of opportunities, such as education, skill training, work or income-generating business, access to health care or leisure activities. Consequently, many persons with disabilities are unable to get out of their own homes and lead independent, productive and fulfilling lives. Therefore, accessibility should be promoted as a collective good. States and development agencies must better quantify and capture the socioeconomic added value that benefits not merely a particular group of people, namely persons with disabilities, but the population at large.
In this endeavour, Member States, the United Nations system, development institutions and other stakeholders, including the private sector, need to join hands in order to increase and improve availability of accessibility for achieving the SDGs for all.
This Policy Brief is a timely response to the growing demand for sound policy advice and practical toolkits. It provides policy-makers and development professionals an effective lens to look at the barriers to mobility that persons with disabilities face, and more importantly, useful tools to advance and to implement accessible sustainable development for all people of all ages and abilities in all countries.
This is an output of the High Volume Transport Applied Research Programme
Citation
Frye, A (2019) Disability Inclusive Public Transport: Practical steps to making public transport disability inclusive