Monitoring the Trials of a Prototype Taxi Accessible to Disabled People

This paper describes how there has been increasing awareness in recent years of the transport problems faced by disabled people in the United Kingdom (UK). As a consequence, efforts have been made by both central and local governments and by transport to make transport systems more accessible to people with a wide range of disabilities. The Department of Transport (DOT) initiated a number of projects along these lines during 1981, The International Year of the Disabled. One of these involved participating with Carbodies Limited in the design and development of a new taxi-cab prototype.