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Improved public transport for disabled people: volume II - annexes 1-3
- Author:
- TNS SYSTEM THREE SOCIAL RESEARCH
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive. Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 104p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Scottish Executive commissioned research to support their commitment to assessing public transport options for disabled people and to improve targeting of funding. The large scale study was carried out by three organisations in collaboration: TNS System Three Social Research, the Transport Research Institute at Napier University and Transport and Travel Research Ltd. The results were presented in a comprehensive report contained in Volume 1 of the study. Two volumes of Annexes accompany the report. This volume, Volume II, includes Annexes 1-3: the literature review, analysis of the SHS data and further information about the TNS survey. The literature review was conducted early in the research. Some reports were provided to the researchers after it was completed. In some cases these have been included in the final report, though they do not appear in the literature review. Details of TNS survey includes the survey methodology, the questionnaire and selected additional results from the survey. Volume III contains Annexes 4-6. It includes details of all of the best practice case studies and journey audits that were conducted. It also includes details of the feedback exercise, which was designed to gather feedback in response to a document outlining some preliminary findings of the research.
Improved public transport for disabled people: volume I - report
- Author:
- TNS SYSTEM THREE SOCIAL RESEARCH
- Publisher:
- Scottish Executive. Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Scottish Executive commissioned research to support their commitment to assessing public transport options for disabled people and to improve targeting of funding. Originally the focus of the required work was on the role of concessionary fares in relation to accessibility of transport for disabled travellers to inform the commitment laid out in the 2003 Scottish Executive Partnership Agreement. Advice from the Advisory Group led to the scope being broadened out at a very early stage. As a result, the focus of the research was changed to explore and assess a wide range of potential improvements to public transport for disabled people in relation to; difficulties in relation to the availability of transport; difficulties in relation to the accessibility of transport; information needs; affordability; fear of travel - confidence; personal barriers to travel. Evidenced from the literature review carried out for this study demonstrates that improved access to public transport is a crucial element of trying to increase opportunities, reduce inequalities and generally improve the life quality of many groups in society. Previous research has also indicated that there have been some improvements introduced in recent years. The introduction of recent Disability Discrimination legislation is a key step forward, but it is clear that many barriers still remain and that improvements are required in order to facilitate the use of practical, affordable and accessible transport for many people with illness and disability. Additionally, key demographic trends suggest that it is likely that difficulties with transport will extend to affect a larger proportion of the population. Therefore, research was required to identify what actions are still required to further improve the situation and to explore why previously identified ‘solutions’ had not necessarily been adopted or successful.
Improved public transport for disabled people: volume III - annexes 4-6
- Author:
- TNS SYSTEM THREE SOCIAL RESEARCH
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive. Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 124p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Scottish Executive commissioned research to support their commitment to assessing public transport options for disabled people and to improve targeting of funding. The large scale study was carried out by three organisations in collaboration: TNS System Three Social Research, the Transport Research Institute at Napier University and Transport and Travel Research Ltd. The results were presented in a comprehensive report contained in Volume 1 of the study. Two volumes of Annexes accompany the report. The first of these, Volume II, includes Annexes 1-3: the literature review, analysis of the SHS data and details of the TNS survey. This report, volume III, contains Annexes 4-6. It includes details of all of the best practice case studies and journey audits that were conducted. Some of the case studies and all of the journey audits are illustrated with photographs and other graphics. It also includes details of the feedback exercise, which was designed to gather feedback in response to a document outlining some preliminary findings of the research. The document sent out and the feedback received are included in Annex 6. In addition we received informal feedback throughout the research, and this has been included in the main report.
Improved public transport for disabled people: main findings
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive Social Research. Development Department
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive. Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The study ‘Improved Public Transport for Disabled People’ was commissioned by the Scottish Executive, and conducted by TNS System Three Social Research (TNS), the Transport Research Institute at Napier University (TRi) and Transport and Travel Research Ltd. (TTR) in 2005/6. This summaries the main findings of the report.
Journey to equality
- Author:
- WINCHESTER Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.02.04, 2004, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Disabled people are legally protected from discrimination at transport termini but once they board a plane, coach or train these rights disappear. Reports on the draft disability bill and finds the proposals to address this injustice are limited.
Disability review 2008
- Editors:
- GREENHALGH Caroline, LAXTON Clare, PARCKAR Guy, (comps.)
- Publisher:
- Leonard Cheshire
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 68p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Disability Review 2008 is the second in an annual series of reports looking at over 1000 disabled people’s views and experiences of everyday issues around the UK. We asked disabled people about a wide range of issues including finance, transport, work and political engagement and the final product is a valuable insight in disabled people’s views on these issues and their lives in the UK. Disability Review 2008 also contains comparative data from last year’s Disability Review so we can see what has changed over the past year. The whole series will provide a valuable indicator of the impact of government’s policies are having on the lives and experiences of disabled people over the years.
Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee: consultation on DPTAC 2005-07 strategy
- Author:
- DISABLED PERSONS TRANSPORT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
- Publisher:
- Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) was established in 1986 to provide independent advice to Government on the transport needs of all disabled people (Transport Act 1985). The aim of DPTAC is to ensure that disabled people can go where everyone else goes and can do so easily and without encountering additional barriers or incurring extra costs. It seeks: to firstly provide timely, focused and credible advice to Government on the transport and built environment needs of all disabled people, the advice to be representative of the broad views of disabled people in the United Kingdom on nondevolved issues. Secondly to provide guidance and advice to the transport and built environment industries and others on how best to meet the varying needs of all disabled people, taking account of gender, race, faith, sexuality, age and other relevant factors; and thirdly to ensure that service providers inform disabled people of developments in accessible transport and the built environment. DPTAC wants to learn the views and comments of those with an interest in its work on the form and content of the 2005-2007 Strategy and objectives.
Disability Discrimination Act 2005: chapter 13
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 69p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Disability Discrimination Act 2005 ("the 2005 Act") makes substantial amendments to the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 ("the DDA") building on amendments already made to that Act by other legislation since 1999. The 2005 Act takes forward the Government's remaining proposals. The 2005 Act contains provisions giving effect to many new provisions which did not appear in the draft Bill: in particular sections 6 to 8 (rail vehicles), section 9 (disabled persons' parking badges), section 15 (general qualifications bodies) and section 16 (improvements to let dwelling houses).
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Commencement No. 11) Order 2005
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This Order provides for the coming into force of section 49 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, to the extent that it relates to provisions in the Act about the carriage of guide dogs and assistance dogs in taxis and private hire vehicles, and the granting of accessibility certificates and approval certificates in respect of public service vehicles. Section 49 makes it an offence for a person, with intent to deceive, to forge, alter, use, lend or allow another person to use a relevant document, as defined in section 49(1). Section 49(4) makes it an offence to knowingly make a false statement in order to obtain certain relevant documents.
Disability review 2009
- Authors:
- GREENHALGH Caroline, GORE Eleanor, (comps.)
- Publisher:
- Leonard Cheshire
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 64p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This is the third of a series of annual UK wide surveys produced by Leonard Cheshire Disability. The principal objective of the Review is to assess the experiences of disabled people across a number of key areas of life including: education; employment; health and social care; housing; transport and citizenship. It was compiled using responses to a detailed questionnaire that was completed by 1253 people drawn from across the UK. Respondents experienced a range of different impairments, were aged over 18 and included a mix of men and women, single and married, parents and non-parents. They were drawn from nine ethnic groups and from all regions of the UK.