Meeting Older Persons’ Mobility and Access Needs – a Re-think on Public Transport
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In recent years recognition of the important role transport plays in supporting a socially inclusive community has underpinned significant investments in public transport in Victoria. Most notably, the Victorian Government’s ‘Meeting Our Transport Challenges’ (MOTC) strategy, released in May 2006, placed a strong emphasis on social outcomes. The MOTC included plans for wide-ranging investments across the next 10 years to improve public transport system’s accessibility, availability, capacity, and affordability (State of Victoria, 2006).
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تاریخ انتشار 2007