Accessible Transport

The Accessible Transport Strategy Draft Action Plan 2012-2015

The Department for Regional Development is committed to making transport as accessible as possible. In 2005 it published the Accessible Transport Strategy (ATS) which has the vision to “have an accessible transport system that enables older people and people with disabilities to participate more fully in society, enjoy greater independence and experience a better quality of life”.

The ATS included a commitment to produce Action Plans to implement the Strategy. The most recent draft action plan for 2012-2015 has now been released for public consultation.

This document lists actions to be undertaken to improve the accessibility of the transport system up to the year 2015. This document is available below in a range of different formats.

ATS Draft Action Plan 2012-2015 (PDF) 318KB

ATS Draft Action Plan 2012-2015 (Word) 535KB

ATS Draft Action Plan 2012-2015 (Easyread) 3MB

An audio version of the document is also available through the below audio player.

If you would like to respond to the consultation please do so by Thursday 12 April 2012. We have provided a questionnaire below to help you with your response.

ATS Draft Action Plan 2012-2015 Questionnaire (Word) 73KB

The Department also intends to hold a number of public meetings regarding the action plan, details of these are found below.

Date	Location	Venue	Time
6 March 2012	Londonderry	Millennium Forum	14:00-15:30
7 March 2012	Omagh	Omagh Community House	14:00-15:30
12 March 2012	Belfast	Grosvenor House	14:00-15:30

If you are interested in attending any of the meetings and have any special requirements or if you would like a copy of the document please contact the Mobility Inclusion Unit using the below contact details.

Contact Details

Email:atsinfo@drdni.gov.uk
Telephone:028 9054 0580
Fax:028 9054 0604
Textphone:028 9054 0642

Mobility Inclusion Unit
Strategic Policy and Co-ordination Division
Department for Regional Development
Room 301,
Clarence Court
10-18 Adelaide Street
Belfast
BT2 8GB

The Accessible Transport Strategy

In 2005 the Department published the Accessible Transport Strategy (ATS).
The strategy seeks to address the barriers that impede use of the transport system by older people and people with disabilities.
A copy of the ATS can be found below in PDF Format:

An Accessible Transport Strategy for Northern Ireland 2015(511kb)

A full Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) has also been carried out on the ATS. This can be downloaded by clicking the below link:

Equality Impact Assessment ATS (PDF)(588kb)

Travel Safe - a guide about community safety for people with learning disabilities.

One of the things the ATS said we can do is help people with learning disabilities to travel more by themselves. We have now written a handy guide for people with learning disabilities. This guide will help you if want to find out information about how you can use buses, trains and taxis. It also gives you some information about how you can keep safe when you are out and about.

When we were writing this guide we found out everything we could about travelling safely. We read other guides, we looked things up on the Internet, we talked to the police and to road safety officers. We also talked to lots of people with learning disabilities about what they felt people needed to know. When we had done all that, we put all the information together in this guide. To help make the guide easier to understand, we took pictures of the things you will see when you are travelling in Northern Ireland.

We hope that this guide helps you to get out and about and travel safely.

Because the guide has a number of pictures in it we have split it into sections to make it easier to open on your computer.

Introduction and contents (pdf 121KB)
Section 1 My safety (pdf 340KB)
Section 2 Road Skills (pdf 354KB)
Section 3 Using the bus (pdf 353KB)
Section 4 Using the train (pdf 237KB)
Section 5 Door 2 door (pdf 127KB)
Section 6 Taxis (pdf 276KB)
Section 7 Don't bother me (pdf 165KB)
Section 8 What I need to remember (79KB)
Section 9 Contact us (pdf 217KB)

We have also made an audio version of the guide. If you click on a link below it will read out the section of the guide to you.

Contact Details

If any of the documents above are not in a format which meet your needs please get in contact with us. We will be pleased to provide additional copies of this document in accessible formats e.g. in Large Print, Easyread, Braille, Audio CD or Daisy formats.

You can contact us at:

Mobility Inclusion Unit
Regional Planning & Transport Division
Department for Regional Development
Room 3-01 Clarence Court
10-18 Adelaide Street
Belfast
BT2 8GB

Email us: atsinfo@drdni.gov.uk
Telephone: 028 9054 0580
Fax: 028 9054 0604
Textphone: 028 9054 0642