Pan-impairment Archives - Page 27 of 50 - National Centre for Accessible Transport

Disabled cyclists in England: Imagery in policy and design

UK policy has long sought to promote cycling as a healthy and sustainable form of transport. A desire to generate…

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Modelling spatial access to General Practitioner surgeries: Does public transport availability matter?

Existing approaches investigating access to primary health care tend to use relatively crude measures that compare supply to demand ratios…

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The experiences of everyday travel for older people in rural areas: A systematic review of UK qualitative studies

Older people make up a larger proportion of the rural than urban population and rely more heavily on its transport…

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Getting out of the house: The use of community transport as a third place for rural-dwelling older adults

Rural-dwelling older adults experience significant shrinkage in their social networks and capital due to transitions in later life related to…

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Transport disadvantage and social exclusion: Exclusionary mechanisms in transport in Urban Scotland

There is currently much interest in the role that transport plays in promoting, or alleviating 'social exclusion'. Exclusionary processes are,…

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Accessibility and user needs: Pedestrian mobility and urban design in the UK

It is over 18 years since the UK Disability Discrimination Act legislated for access in Britain's built environment and in…

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Urban services, pedestrian networks and behaviors to measure elderly accessibility

Relationships between the organisation of the pedestrian network and the location and distribution of activities represent an important element in…

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Inequalities in utility and leisure cycling in England, and variation by local cycling prevalence

This paper analyses Active People Survey data (collected 2011/12 to 2015/16) on 789,196 English adults, providing new information on how…

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Investigating ramp gradients for humps on railway platforms

Horizontal and vertical gaps between the train and the platform are a major safety concern for railway passengers, especially for…

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Road space reallocation in Scotland: A health impact assessment

Introduction: Road space reallocation involves re-distributing space away from motor vehicles, including car parking and carriageway space, towards other uses.…

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