ACCESS 2 ALL - Mobility Schemes Ensuring Accessibility of Public Transport for all Users
Overview
Background & policy context:
The main aim of making this coordination effort was to encourage Public Transport operators belonging to the project target group to adopt innovative technological concepts and mobility schemes that enable high quality mobility and transportation services for all, as well as to provide their personnel with the necessary knowledge on the particularities of specific user groups, such as the elderly and disabled, ICT-illiterate, dyslexic and illiterate people, etc. To achieve this, it was necessary to identify best practices and still existing gaps, coordinate on-going research efforts, agree on guidelines for transportation systems and services and promote these towards all-inclusive standards and policies; given that no 'magic' solution can exist, ACCESS2ALL also aims at producing common research roadmaps, in cooperation with all major stakeholders, aimed at further enhancing the quality of transportation services for ALL users, in those cases where technological or operational gaps still existed.
Objectives:
The concrete project objectives are listed below:
- To identify the actual problems and real needs of all user groups requiring special attention in their transportation by PT and cluster them according to their relevant needs.
- To identify best practices in all-inclusive PT systems and incorporate them into a best practices benchmarking database.
- To define specific implementation scenarios, covering all the project target user groups.
- To promote the deployment of innovative technological and service provision concepts increasing the mobility of people in cities, based on new vehicle and infrastructure concepts, suitable for a barrier-free travel chain.
- To improve PT information and service provision for all passengers by means of integrated, personalised travel information systems and novel HMI concepts, using the acoustic, visual, tactile channel within the infrastructure and the vehicles and also by means of modern equipment, like handhelds, such as mobile phones and PDAs.
- To promote innovative cooperative systems enabling the optimal combination of autonomous and infrastructure based systems to the benefit of all end users.
- To enhance the security and reliability of PT for all users by identifying and promoting promising localisation technologies.
- To promote novel concepts enabling the cost-efficiency, accessibility, maintenance and expansion of PT services.
- To define a concise methodology and develop adequate tools to assess the usability and accessibility of PT systems for all users.
- To provide guidance on how to optimally incorporate cross-cultural issues into PT service provision.
- To develop design guidelines on accessible PT services, based on existing ones as well as new concepts proposed in the project, covering all aspects of operation: infrastructure, vehicles, information.
- To analyse existing legislation and standards in the area of PT services provision and propose new standardisation actions and policy recommendations, taking always into account the involved costs.
- To develop a research roadmap towards 2010, 2015 and 2025 on accessible PT issues, and establish this among the major stakeholders of the field, in order to coordinate current efforts and research.
- To develop training programmes (methodology, curricula and tools) for PT operators and planners on accessible PT issues.
- To disseminate the results and create public awareness through a dedi
Methodology:
The achievement of all above stated objectives was measured and verified through well specified milestones and specific success assessment criteria.
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