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Have We Outgrown Paratransit?
| 题名： | Have We Outgrown Paratransit? |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | CHRISTIAN KENT |
| 作者单位： | Christian T. Kent Transit Management Consulting LLC |
| 摘要： | Before the passage of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990, access to public transit for people with disabilities was extremely limited, mainly because of indifferent and erroneous assumptions about the numbers, needs, capabilities and aspirations of people with disabilities. Today, access to transit is vastly improved, and industry statistics reflect this accordingly. Since 2000, local bus fleets nationwide have moved from 81 percent to 100 percent accessible, and millions of customers with disabilities are making use of fixed-route transit who could not have done so before. The original intent of requiring complementary paratransit service was to bridge that gap, extending the equivalent of fixed-route transit to people with disabilities who could not make use of an otherwise inaccessible system, yet the demand for paratransit service has grown exponentially since its inception, despite North America achieving a mostly accessible fixed-route transit network. |
| 出版年： | 2023 |
| 期刊名称： | Mass Transit |
| 卷： | 49 |
| 期： | 2 |
| 页码： | 26-28 |
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