Accessibility and Inclusion Forum
The Accessibility and Inclusion Forum provides a focus on accessibility and inclusion across logistics and transport, helping address the needs of people with mobility challenges. It highlights best practice, influences policy, and works to make transport accessible for all.
Purpose
A key purpose of the Forum is to ensure that changing needs are properly understood and reflected in the development of transport policy, through direct involvement in, and review of, government and industry consultations.
Accessibility to public transport and to the pedestrian environment are both an economic and a social imperative. Continuing mobility is key to enabling disabled and older people to remain independent and able to contribute both directly and indirectly to the country’s economy. The Forum takes a broad view of this, incorporating areas such as the provision of transport information in a variety of formats and the role of transport in wider planning.
The Accessibility and Inclusion Forum meets on a regular basis with participants attending both in person and online. New members are always welcome. A number of Forum members have lived experience of disability as well as professional expertise. Discussions at the Forum cover all transport modes.
Objective
The aim of the Accessibility and Inclusion Forum is to provide a focus within CILT on issues of accessibility and inclusion for those people with mobility impairments because of physical, social or economic constraints, across all logistics and transport modes. There is a clear emphasis on the outcomes for people in enabling opportunities in work, education, health and leisure.
Committee Members
Chair: Gerard Butler | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ann Frye | Michael Whittaker | Paul Beecham |
| John Sutton CMILT | John Edser FCILT | Nigel Hinch |
| Roger Mackett FCILT | Matthew Smith | Geoff Wade |
| Jennie Martin | Martin Fleetwood |
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