Access to transport for disabled people

Transportation is an extremely important policy issue for those with disabilities. People with disabilities have consistently described how transportation barriers affect their lives in important ways. Over the last two decades the National Organization on Disability (NOD) has sponsored three successive Harris polls with people with disabilities, and respondents in each survey have reported that transportation issues are a crucial concern. In the last survey, undertaken in 2004, just under a third of those with disabilities reported that inadequate transportation was a problem for them; of those individuals, over half said it was a major problem. The more severe the disability of the respondent was, the more serious were the reported transportation problems (National Organization on Disability-Harris Interactive, 2004).

However, the policy debates over the local transportation needs of these travelers often revolve around dichotomies that may be misleading—arguing over the role of buses compared with the role of paratransit, for example. Moreover, these debates often focus on some topics at the expense of other equally important issues. For example, there is a legitimate concern about ensuring that people with disabilities receive the services mandated by the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), but most of the transportation needs of these travelers are not addressed at all by the ADA. Colored by this perspective, many policy analyses ignore the fact that most travelers with disabilities, as is true for travelers in the world at large, make the majority of their trips in private vehicles and rely heavily on walking to facilitate their use of all modes of travel. A narrow policy focus tends to limit discussions of the barriers to both auto use and pedestrian travel while slighting the connection between transportation programs and other important policy initiatives, from land use planning to human and medical service delivery.

To expand traditional discussions, this paper makes a clear distinction between the kinds of transport services and facilities that are required by regulations or law and those that are required to address the far larger mobility needs of most people with disabilities. This paper not only highlights the value of understanding and enforcing the ADA (and related legislation) but also indicates when and why policy discussions must go beyond a focus on the ADA to address the full spectrum of the needs of travelers with disabilities. The paper also suggests that providing effective mobility options for those with disabilities requires attention to a variety of interrelated policy areas and service delivery models: from how, when, and where medical services are provided to the places where people are able to live.

This paper addresses local ground transportation; beyond its scope are issues of air, sea, and intercity travel for people with disabilities. It has three major sections. The following section gives an overview of the travel patterns of people with disabilities, highlighting the problems that they face with various modes of travel and the crucial role of both walking and private vehicles in their mobility—whether or not they drive. The next major section, the third in this paper, examines the community transportation resources provided to travelers with disabilities by public transportation systems, other public and nonprofit agencies, and the private sector. The final section suggests that more and better accessible transportation is a necessary but not a sufficient resource for overcoming the multiple barriers faced by most people with disabilities. Addressing the transportation needs of such travelers requires active cooperation between transportation planners and those in a number of other policy and program arenas. Relevant personnel range from educators to medical personnel, from employment counselors to urban designers, and from housing remodelers to land use planners.

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[indriahappy]

Wah kurang leter tangganya masih ada trap . Kalo satu sisi leter lebih bagus smooth.

[kukuhbasorry]

Saya cacat karena Stroke, smg bisa naik kereta lagi 🙏

[DBT]

terus perbanyak konten keliling jakarta mas. tapi yaa sebisanya saja sih.

sekarang kan jakarta semenjak kepemimpinannya pak anies, mulai mempedulikan kaum disabilitas. dan juga membuat jakarta sebagai kota kolaborasi. warga jakarta, siapapun itu, boleh memberi ide atau ngasih laporan ke pemda JKT. pemda jkt dan rakyat berkolaborasi membangun jakarta

yaa mudah2an gub2 berikutnya masih tetap meneruskan hal ini sih.

edit: tapi, yg paling utama sihh mental warga indonesia sih yg masih blm bisa menghormati sesama manusia. jangankan menghormati penyandang disabilitas...
soal rokok, banyak manusia indonesia yg ga peduli orang lain.. asal ngerokok aja tuh. bahkan di dekat anak kecil dan lansia. kan ga ada kesadaran dirinya ini. ga tau malu..