Annual Report 1997

9. Report of the Ad-Hoc Working Group on Personal Vehicular Transport

Members
Douglas Campbell - Disabled Drivers Association
Grahame Lawson - DPTAC
Dr Kit Mitchell - Institution of Highways and Transportation
Andrew Braddock - London Transport
Sir Peter Large - DPTAC
Bill Lee - Consultant
Philip Oxley - Cranfield University
Janet Scammell - DPTAC

Observers Ann Frye - DETR

For some time DPTAC has been conscious of the growing demands for a reduction in the use of private cars for environmental, pollution or other reasons. Without wishing to diminish in any way the arguments of those who seek a safer and cleaner environment, DPTAC recognises that for many disabled people a private car is the only realistic form of personal mobility and is likely to remain so for many years to come. It was therefore decided to establish an ad hoc working group to prepare a paper to submit to the Secretary of State showing how the needs of disabled people are not incompatible with an integrated transport strategy but that within that strategy there must be a role for the private car and disabled people should not be prevented through physical or other restrictions from using their vehicle. Following a number of meetings a report has been drafted and will be finalised early in 1998.

Bert Massie
Chairman

Published 3 June 1998

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