Urban accessibility challenges for persons with disabilities
summary
Ola Mobility Institute reports a multi-partner study with 20+ interviews and 11 focus groups of people with locomotor, visual and Deaf/Hard of Hearing disabilities across metros, buses, autos, taxis and aggregator apps, finding end-to-end failures from inaccessible sidewalks and boarding gaps to broken payment flows and missing accessible COVID communications. The study cites economic loss up to 7% of GDP, notes pilots like Delhi’s 1,000 hydraulic-ramp buses and Goa’s wheelchair buses, and urges a trip chain lens, disaggregated data, mandatory accessibility standards and India Stack–enabled subsidies.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 3:37SARA Transport systems
- 4:45Cost of excluding PwD
- 6:36Recent efforts contd
- 7:21Trip Planning lens
- 13:41Getting to the boarding spot cont.
- 19:24In-transit
- 22:04Payment
- 24:45Recommendations
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