Transport Problems of People with Disabilities and Policy Issues: Cases in Addis Ababa
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2017-05
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A.A.U
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.
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A thesis submitted to the school of graduate studies
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
Degree of masters of Arts in public management and
Policy (MPMP)
Keywords
Disability, Policy issues, Transportation Disability