Motability transporter
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The centre will demonstrate what needs to happen for people with a wide range of disabilities to be able to access transport, how existing good practice can be scaled up, and where new innovations are needed – and will convene disabled people with decision makers and transport providers so that findings can be put into practice. Now, the charity is planning to launch an Evidence Centre for inclusive transport, which it will fund with £20 million over seven years. However, there is a lack of specific evidence about how best to build in accessibility from the start, particularly for new and emerging modes of transport such as electric and autonomous vehicles. Problems accessing transport contribute to wide ranging disadvantage for disabled people, including a quarter of working age disabled people citing inaccessible transport as a key barrier to employment.Īccording to Motability, disabled people are almost twice as likely to be unemployed as non-disabled people, despite applying for 60% more jobs, and nearly half of those in poverty in the UK are either disabled or live with a disabled person. The plans are being revealed as Motability releases new analysis showing that making transport fully accessible to disabled people would deliver £72.4bn of socio-economic benefit to the UK every year, through improved access to employment, training, education and social opportunities.ĭisabled people told the charity that they’d had to turn down training opportunities because they couldn’t use public transport alone, they could no longer use A-roads due to a lack of public toilets and that they couldn’t travel out of their local area. The gap sees disabled people make 38 per cent fewer journeys than non-disabled people every year due to problems accessing public and private transport, according to the Department for Transport, a figure that hasn’t changed in a decade.
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The ambitious evidence centre will launch in January 2023 and aims to close the “transport accessibility gap”. The charity Motability is today launching a competition to find partners to run a £20 million Motability-funded evidence centre dedicated to making transport accessible for disabled people. The Evidence Centre will launch in January 2023 and work with persons with disabilities, disabled people’s organizations (DPOs), transport providers and policy makers to develop solutions to make transport accessible for everyone. Motability to Launch Evidence Centre for Inclusive Transport