Transport for the elderly and the handicapped.
This paper is a postcript to the International Conference on Transport for Elderly and Handicapped Persons held at Cambridge University from 4-6 April 1978. The author was one of the organisers and discusses in this paper the following issues which were of central interest at the conference: what is the rationale underlying the provision of transport for the elderly and the handicapped, how can the travel patterns of the elderly and the handicapped be characterised, what are the principal means of transport which the elderly and the handicapped use in urban areas, and what are their advantages and disadvantages from an economic, social and ergonomics point of view? The next International Conference on Transport for Elderly and Handicapped Persons will be held at Churchill College, Cambridge, from 14-16 July 1981. This paper will serve as a reference point for that conference and it will be interesting to see what advances, if any, have been made over the three years intervening between the two conferences, in understanding and solving the transport problems of the elderly and the handicapped.
Ashford
N J
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Department of Transport Technology, University of Technology, Loughborough, UK.