Wheelchair Accessible Taxis And The ECMTIRU Design Recommendations
"Taxis play a critical role in the provision of personalized door-to-door transport services for
healthy, elderly, and people with a physical disability.
Taxis are of particular benefit to...
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Wheelchair Accessible Taxis And The ECMTIRU Design Recommendations
"Taxis play a critical role in the provision of personalized door-to-door transport services for
healthy, elderly, and people with a physical disability.
Taxis are of particular benefit to people
living with disabilities since they are widely available, can be accessed on a 24 hour basis
and offer personalized services.
Over the last couple of years, the accessibility to public forms
of transport such as buses and trams by the elderly and the disabled has greatly improved.
However, access to taxis remains a challenge to most people living with disabilities.
This has
been blamed on the organization and structure of the taxi subsector.
Of particular interest is the
predominant taxi vehicle design used in most countries, which makes it difficult for most elderly
and disabled people to use.
The European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) and the International Road
Transport Union (IRU) came up with a raft of
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