Transport Problems of People with Disabilities and Policy Issues: Cases in Addis Ababa
| dc.contributor.advisor | Birhanu, Elias (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Eseta, Tessema | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-18T06:29:40Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T10:18:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-18T06:29:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T10:18:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Transport disability – the unnecessary exclusion of disabled people from current forms of transport. It has a major impact on the lives and life choices of any disabled people. Many people with disabilities do not have equal access to health care, education, and employment opportunities, they do not receive the disability-related services that they require, and experience exclusion from everyday life activities.Transport is essential for disabled people to access education, employment, health services, social events and leisure pursuits. A lack of accessible means of transport creates social exclusion for many disabled people.The aim of this paper was to study the transportation problems of people with disabilities and policies issues in Ethiopia. In addition, it helped to bring together the empirical evidence on the nature and type of the problems of the transportation of People with Disabilities and to develop policy-relevant data on disability as well as to add necessary data to the pool of existing policies to be used by policymakers in designing transportation systems that serve everyone equally. The study was conducted in Addis Ababa using both qualitative and quantitative researchusing different instruments. The study basically relied on the use of primary data collected in the month of March, 2017 from randomly selected clients. In addition, secondary data, semi structured interviews, observation and desk study were used to collect data for analysis. As it has been revealed Transport disability has a major impact on the lives and life choices of any disabled people to access education, employment, health services, social events and leisure pursuits. A lack of accessible means of independent travel creates social exclusion for many disabled people. The study also confirmed that Transportation is an extremely important policy issue and lack the inclusion of transportation disabilities in the country’s policies and direction.. Recommendations based on the findings of the study in transportation disability are presented. Key Words: Transportation Disability, Disability, Traveller Diary, Policy issues | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/9113 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Transportation disability | en_US |
| dc.subject | Disability | en_US |
| dc.subject | Traveller diary | en_US |
| dc.subject | Policy issues | en_US |
| dc.title | Transport Problems of People with Disabilities and Policy Issues: Cases in Addis Ababa | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |