TITLE: Potential of ridesharing concept for improving accessibility and mobility of persons with disabilities
AUTHORS: Đorđe Petrović, Radomir M. Mijailović, Dalibor Pešić
ABSTRACT: Persons with disabilities face numerous barriers in their everyday life. In the key documents of the United Nations and the European Commission, transportation accessibility was pointed out as one of the most significant problems. The fact that persons with disabilities made up to 30% fewer daily trips compared to the rest of the population clearly highlights this problem. One of the ways to improve the mobility of persons with disabilities is to ridesharing with passenger car drivers. The paper aims to explore the intention of drivers without disabilities to share their driving with persons with disabilities. In order to obtain more specific findings, the observed population was divided into three groups: persons with physical disabilities, persons with hearing impairments, and persons with visual impairments. In general, drivers had the same intention to share their rides despite disability status of passengers. However, drivers would prefer to share rides with persons with hearing impairments compared to other groups. The results of the study can be beneficial to create and implement policies that will improve the mobility of persons with disabilities.
KEYWORDS: persons with disabilities, accessibility, mobility, ridesharing
PAGES: 41-47
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