@article{ref1,
title="Access, aging, and impairments part b: accessibility planning",
journal="Journal of transport and land use",
year="2009",
author="Schmocker, Jan-Dirk",
volume="2",
number="2",
pages="1-2",
abstract="This article serves as the introduction to the second part in a special series on access to transportation options. This section focuses on the planning implications and reviews how far accessibility planning has been employed in practice. The first entry is a letter that describes experiences with accessibility planning in French towns, illustrating experiences and problems associated with a recent law that requires municipalities to improve accessibility. The remaining articles in this issue cover topics including the findings of a survey of Swedish municipalities on the perception of the importance of accessibility issues as well as whether policies and guidelines are actually being implemented; how existing guidelines often fail to address the real needs of those with impairments; an alternative approach tested in the United Kingdom to measure the extent of social exclusion experienced by people with mobility impairments, particularly older people; the problem of project evaluation, as transport planners and advocates must justify investments; the mobility effects of improvements to the public transport system in Sweden; and the measurable benefits of more accessible transport, including the idea that better access to transport facilities is appreciated by a wider community than generally considered and often leads to positive net present values for infrastructure improvements. The author stresses that the access to a destination is only as good as the lowest level of access to any infrastructure on any path to this destination - one broken link may prevent the entire journey from being undertaken.<p />",
language="",
issn="1938-7849",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}