Description
Subjects covered in the plenary, workshop and paper sessions include: expected societal changes likely to affect transport policy for elderly and disabled people in developed and developing countries; attitudes to implementing mobility as a human right in different countries and within major international transport organizations; elderly and disabled drivers; inter-regional, regional, local and specialized transportation; vehicle design and modifications; and policy issues.;In focusing on these and other transportation issues, the conference aimed to stimulate decision makers, researchers, planners, operators and the transport industry, firstly to design new, and modify existing, transport systems to reach the goal of providing elderly and disabled people with an equal right to mobility and transportation, and secondly to plan a traffic environment to facilitate and achieve accessibility for elderly and disabled persons.
