
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.
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Accessibility planning
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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