Lecco, ITALY, 12 July 2022: Today, ENIL, AAATE, and UITP – representing end-users with disabilities, assistive technology experts and public transport providers across Europe, signed the Lecco Declaration. The Lecco Declaration outlines key principles that...
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MEDIA RELEASE: High-Level Meeting on “Moving faster forward towards. Accessible and Inclusive Public Transport for All”
Lecco, ITALY, 11 July 2022: As partner in the TRIPS consortium, we are proud to announce the High-Level Meeting on “Moving faster forward towards. Accessible and Inclusive Public Transport for All”, organized in the framework of the pre-conference...
Webinar 3: Best practice and pilots for accessible transport solutions
Date: 26 Jun 2022
Three webinars – 5 May, 10 May and 23 June – to look at accessible transport with public transport providers, policy makers and travelers with disabilities. A call for action to make accessibility a core objective of upcoming infrastructure investments, in particular...
Discussing digital barrier-free accessibility at IT TRANS in Germany
Partners from the TRIPS project presented today (10 May 2022) at the IT TRANS conference in Karlsruhe, Germany. A conference dedicated to the topic of digitalization and IT solutions in the public transport sector, TRIPS was one of the only sessions focusing on...
10 May | Webinar 2: The relevance of accessible transport post-Covid
Programme & Registration Three webinars – 5 May, 10 May and 23 June – to look at accessible transport with public transport providers, policy makers and travelers with disabilities. A call for action to make accessibility a core objective of upcoming...
5 May | Webinar 1: For the user with the user: enabling accessibility in public transport
Programme & Registration Three webinars – 5 May, 10 May and 23 June – to look at accessible transport with public transport providers, policy makers and travelers with disabilities. A call for action to make accessibility a core objective of upcoming...
One project, three webinars and the high ambition of making urban public transport accessible
Three webinars – 5 May, 10 May and 23 June – to look at accessible transport with public transport providers, policy makers and travelers with disabilities. A call for action to make accessibility a core objective of upcoming infrastructure investments, in particular...
MEDIA RELEASE for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities #IDPD2021
Brussels, 2 December 2021: The International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) is a wonderful opportunity for the international community to check on progress on past commitments in advancing accessibility, course correct if necessary and start through with new...
Inclusive mobility and climate change
There are many issues to be considered when creating innovative approaches to accessible transport for people with a disability. An understanding of the needs of all travellers is essential but there is also a need to consider the constraints of providers of transport...
A White Paper on the Mobility Divide Index
Are you interested in a brand-new measuring system of public transport accessibility for people with disabilities? Have a look at the TRIPS project's White Paper about the Mobility Divide Index (MDI). The TRIPS consortium views accessibility as an indicator of the...
What you can learn from over 500 people with disabilities about removing barriers in public transport
TRIPS is an EU-funded project, which aims at making public transport more accessible for persons with disabilities, elderly voyagers, and really everyone. As one of the corner stones for the development of innovative solutions in this respect, a survey was carried out...
TRIPS shortlisted for Zero Project 2022
A world without barriers – that is the vision of the Zero Project, an initiative of the Austrian Essl Foundation and organized jointly with the World Future Council and the European Foundation Centre. Since its start with a preliminary study on existing data related...
Connecting to your audience from your research – The 5 x 5 x 500 approach
It is an open secret when writing reports for research or consultancy that the most crucial part is the executive summary. In any project, at some point, it will be agreed that most of the audience will only ever read the executive summary. Research reports are long,...
Five Barriers to making inclusive transport a reality
The TRIPS project undertook a series of workshops to create a series of co-designed transport concepts that would enable people with a disability to travel independently by reducing barriers to mobility. The concepts developed were divided into big "disruptive" ideas...
Five incremental ideas for accessible transport
Not all problems require big ideas to solve. Here are five innovations imagined by people with a disability that would reduce barriers to travel. Some build upon new technology whilst others take existing ideas and add an inclusive twist. The most popular solution...
Five disruptive innovations for travel that people with a disability imagined
The TRIPS project explored how to increase access to transport for people with a disability through innovation. In a series of recent workshops, we asked participants to dream and think about "big" ideas that would address many of the barriers that they faced. Some of...
10 May | Webinar 2: The relevance of accessible transport post-Covid
Programme & Registration Three webinars – 5 May, 10 May and 23 June – to look at accessible transport with public transport providers, policy makers and travelers with disabilities. A call for action to make accessibility a core objective of upcoming...
5 May | Webinar 1: For the user with the user: enabling accessibility in public transport
Programme & Registration Three webinars – 5 May, 10 May and 23 June – to look at accessible transport with public transport providers, policy makers and travelers with disabilities. A call for action to make accessibility a core objective of upcoming...
10 September | Workshop Communication in Accessible Urban Public Transport
Workshop on standardisation activities concerning interfaces and communicated content 10 September 2020 14:40~16:00 The European project TRIPS and AAATE’s Special Interest Group on Standardisation organise an online workshop that will be held on 10 September in the...
Webinar 3: Best practice and pilots for accessible transport solutions
Date: 26 Jun 2022
Three webinars – 5 May, 10 May and 23 June – to look at accessible transport with public transport providers, policy makers and travelers with disabilities. A call for action to make accessibility a core objective of upcoming infrastructure investments, in particular...
MEDIA RELEASE: Signing of the Lecco Declaration
Lecco, ITALY, 12 July 2022: Today, ENIL, AAATE, and UITP – representing end-users with disabilities, assistive technology experts and public transport providers across Europe, signed the Lecco Declaration. The Lecco Declaration outlines key principles that...
MEDIA RELEASE: High-Level Meeting on “Moving faster forward towards. Accessible and Inclusive Public Transport for All”
Lecco, ITALY, 11 July 2022: As partner in the TRIPS consortium, we are proud to announce the High-Level Meeting on “Moving faster forward towards. Accessible and Inclusive Public Transport for All”, organized in the framework of the pre-conference...
Discussing digital barrier-free accessibility at IT TRANS in Germany
Partners from the TRIPS project presented today (10 May 2022) at the IT TRANS conference in Karlsruhe, Germany. A conference dedicated to the topic of digitalization and IT solutions in the public transport sector, TRIPS was one of the only sessions focusing on...
One project, three webinars and the high ambition of making urban public transport accessible
Three webinars – 5 May, 10 May and 23 June – to look at accessible transport with public transport providers, policy makers and travelers with disabilities. A call for action to make accessibility a core objective of upcoming infrastructure investments, in particular...
MEDIA RELEASE for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities #IDPD2021
Brussels, 2 December 2021: The International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) is a wonderful opportunity for the international community to check on progress on past commitments in advancing accessibility, course correct if necessary and start through with new...
Inclusive mobility and climate change
There are many issues to be considered when creating innovative approaches to accessible transport for people with a disability. An understanding of the needs of all travellers is essential but there is also a need to consider the constraints of providers of transport...
A White Paper on the Mobility Divide Index
Are you interested in a brand-new measuring system of public transport accessibility for people with disabilities? Have a look at the TRIPS project's White Paper about the Mobility Divide Index (MDI). The TRIPS consortium views accessibility as an indicator of the...
What you can learn from over 500 people with disabilities about removing barriers in public transport
TRIPS is an EU-funded project, which aims at making public transport more accessible for persons with disabilities, elderly voyagers, and really everyone. As one of the corner stones for the development of innovative solutions in this respect, a survey was carried out...
TRIPS shortlisted for Zero Project 2022
A world without barriers – that is the vision of the Zero Project, an initiative of the Austrian Essl Foundation and organized jointly with the World Future Council and the European Foundation Centre. Since its start with a preliminary study on existing data related...
Connecting to your audience from your research – The 5 x 5 x 500 approach
It is an open secret when writing reports for research or consultancy that the most crucial part is the executive summary. In any project, at some point, it will be agreed that most of the audience will only ever read the executive summary. Research reports are long,...
Five Barriers to making inclusive transport a reality
The TRIPS project undertook a series of workshops to create a series of co-designed transport concepts that would enable people with a disability to travel independently by reducing barriers to mobility. The concepts developed were divided into big "disruptive" ideas...
Five incremental ideas for accessible transport
Not all problems require big ideas to solve. Here are five innovations imagined by people with a disability that would reduce barriers to travel. Some build upon new technology whilst others take existing ideas and add an inclusive twist. The most popular solution...
Five disruptive innovations for travel that people with a disability imagined
The TRIPS project explored how to increase access to transport for people with a disability through innovation. In a series of recent workshops, we asked participants to dream and think about "big" ideas that would address many of the barriers that they faced. Some of...
Five barriers to travel and mobility for people with a disability
There are many barriers to travel experienced by people with a disability. In a recent workshop for the TRIPS project (https://trips-project.eu/) to investigate solutions to obstacles, we could explore those in detail. People with a disability discussed their...
Five things to consider in co-design with people with a disability
Co-design is a process by which groups of people with different experiences and perspectives work collectively and collaboratively to produce ideas, concepts, and designs to address a challenge. For people with a disability, it helps to move them from being ignored,...
Mobility Survey – Redesigning accessible transport systems
New transport systems such as micro-transit, motorbike taxis, e-scooters, bike sharing, cycle Lanes, cable cars and mobility hubs are becoming increasingly popular. According to experts, these solutions may solve many of today’s transport issues in cities, but are...