Colored by this perspective, many policy analyses ignore the fact that most travelers with disabilities, as is true for travelers in the world at large, make the majority of their trips in private vehicles and rely heavily on walking to facilitate their use of all modes of travel.
For example, there is a legitimate concern about ensuring that people with disabilities receive the services mandated by the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), but most of the transportation needs of these travelers are not addressed at all by the ADA. Moreover, these debates often focus on some topics at the expense of other equally important issues. However, the policy debates over the local transportation needs of these travelers often revolve around dichotomies that may be misleading-arguing over the role of buses compared with the role of paratransit, for example. The more severe the disability of the respondent was, the more serious were the reported transportation problems ( National Organization on Disability-Harris Interactive, 2004). In the last survey, undertaken in 2004, just under a third of those with disabilities reported that inadequate transportation was a problem for them of those individuals, over half said it was a major problem.
Over the last two decades the National Organization on Disability (NOD) has sponsored three successive Harris polls with people with disabilities, and respondents in each survey have reported that transportation issues are a crucial concern. People with disabilities have consistently described how transportation barriers affect their lives in important ways.
Transportation is an extremely important policy issue for those with disabilities.
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