The following guidance is published by the Department for Transport (DfT). The links open within a new window. The documents exist in Microsoft Word, Excel and Adobe Acrobat formats. If you don’t have Adobe’s free Acrobat Reader, you can download it here.

Accessibility planning

• Accessibility Planning
  The Government’s (Department for Transport’s) accessibility planning website.
• Accessibility Planning Guidance: Full Guidance (2004)
• Accessibility Planning Guidance: Full Technical Guidance  (2004)
• Responses to Accessibility Planning Consultation (July–October 2004)
• Local Transport Plan Guidance: Full Guidance (2nd Edition 2004)
• Other guidance
• Calculation of National Accessibility Core Indicators

Additional DfT guidance

• Intermode: Innovations in Demand Responsive Transport
  A study commissioned by the Department for Transport and Greater Manchester Public Transport Executive into the role of Demand Responsive Transport (DRT). This report also sets out current legislation and examples of good practice.
  
  
• Flexible Transport Services in Rural Areas
  A report commissioned by the Department for Transport on flexible transport services. Whilst focusing on rural areas, most is applicable to urban areas as well.
  
  
• Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) for Community Transport
  This guidance covers a range of non-profit making, flexibly-routed services, including dial-a-ride and community transport schemes for use by particular categories of passengers.
  
  
• Inclusive Mobility
  The DfT, with the Institution of Highways and Transportation and a number of other professional bodies, has published Inclusive Mobility which offers guidance on best practice design of public transport infrastructure and the pedestrian environment.
  
  
• Evaluating Measures to Enhance the Mobility of Older and Disabled Persons
  The DfT will issue guidance on Evaluating Measures to Enhance the Mobility of Older and Disabled Persons to assist authorities in identifying the types of problems likely to be faced by mobility impaired groups, as an input to preparing local accessibility assessments and action plans. This will follow the conclusion of an ongoing research project. Authorities should also consider the needs of other groups that are likely to experience reduced mobility such as the pregnant and people with children in buggies.
  
  
• Travelling to school: a good practice guide
  Issued jointly by the Department for Education and Skills and the Department for Transport, explains how local transport and education authorities can work together with schools to develop strategies that combine ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ measures to enable and encourage more walking and cycling to school.
  
  
• Local Strategic Partnerships, Transport & Accessibility Issues Paper (Final Version)
  Issued by the The Centre for Transport & Society, University of the West of England, Bristol in June 2004 for the Department for Transport. The main focus of the research addressed in this report is based around a series of case studies of the development of Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs), their approach to addressing transport issues and the relationship between LSPs and the corresponding LTAs.
  
• Access in rural areas
  For information on access in National Parks that may also be useful in other rural areas this link provides examples of case studies for integrated transport.
  

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