Keywords: Mobility challenges, PWDs, Transportation Facilities, Disability inclusive, Accessibility
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Author Mobility Challenges
 The measures also take 
Ting, K. (2019) into account the
vulnerability of people
around or those who assist
PWDs. “If one of the people
assisting you slips while
carrying you, you fall. You
can get injured. That’s why
we are giving solutions to
buses to get a movable
ramp. It is still in the
production stage so it will 
take time to fully develop
many of them.”
 “Everything we do is
concerned with disability,”
he said, adding that many
among the elderly have
some kind of disability, 
whether due to hearing or
sight,” said Barba.
 There are 1.4 million PWDs
across the country based
on the 2010 Population
Census of the Philippine
Statistics Authority.
PWDs
The road safety advocate 
said Batas Pambansa 344 or
the 35-year-old Act which
calls for the enhancement of
mobility for PWDs serve as
their guide in PWD-friendly
infrastructure. But while
there is an existing law, a lot
more can be done to
improve the set standards,
he said.
Last July, a bill was filed in 
the House of Representative
aiming to institutionalize
PWD-friendly transportation
programs to address the
needs of PWDs as
commuters.  Their group, formed in
Under the proposed House
Bill No. 2224 or the ‘PWD-
friendly and Safe
Transportation Act’
authored by 
Congresswoman Ma.
Lourdes Arroyo, all PUV
operators and owners are
mandated to upgrade their
PUVs by providing passenger
boarding ramps or lifts,
spaces for wheelchairs and
other safety accessories
such as seatbelts, clamps, 
and grab bars to provide
safety and comfort to PWD
commuters.
Transportation Facilities
We started our auditing in
some bus stations in Cubao.
There have to be toilets and
ramps in buses. In the
Paranaque Integrated
Terminal Exchange (PITX),
before we checked, there
were no accessibility plans.
Good thing we checked it
just time while construction
was still going on.”
“We believe that if (roads)
are accessible, they are safe
not just for commuters and
pedestrians, but also for
cars, and establishments,”
he said.
March 2019, is responsible
for assessing the quality of
transport and road
conditions for PWDs.
For the pilot testing, some
hybrid buses already have
labels designating seats for
senior citizens, small
children, and pregnant
women. For PWDs, they
will have a space to park
their wheelchairs in the
center.
“We designed it with the
DOTr. The doors will also be
bigger to accommodate
wheelchair users,” Barba
Disability Inclusive Accessibility
 Above all, Fullo, Malinao and  According to Barba,
Barba agree that teaching transport should be
road safety should be a accessible for all, non –
priority in homes and disabled and disabled
schools. individuals, but can’t be
 “You have to start them easily achieve straightaway.
young,” said Barba, who Presently, the accessibility
cited the Paranaque guidelines in public utility
Elementary School and the vehicles (PUV)
nearby San Dionisio modernization programs
Elementary School as good aren’t completely prepared
examples because they yet.
teach kids about road safety.
 “They teach them to have
road safety commitments so
they know better when they
grow older.”
 Malinao agrees it is
important to teach not only
road safety to students but
also about inclusivity of
PWDs. “Not all roads are
accessible to PWDs so
people should be more
considerate.”
 Fullo thinks while there have
been moves towards greater
inclusivity, more needs to be
done to better aid them.

Ola Mobility Institute(2021)
 The bill also requires the
 Around the same time,
Mobility challenges
 Before the time of the covid- 
19 pandemic, Persons with
Disabilities (PwDs) are
continuing living the
challenges in public
transportation. In Mumbai,
a student using a wheelchair
can’t enter local train
stations because of the
stairs in the transportation
facility, and the accessible
buses are not always
available, making it more
difficult. Similarly, a visually
impaired teacher named
Usha, from Delhi and her
student with a disability is
infuriated when buses don’t
said in an interview.
Department of Public Works  The task force is building
and Highways to designate a ‘special tools’ for the blind,
certain portion of roadway such as stop lights with
or highway as pick-up points sounds to signal the blind if
for PWDs. they can cross the roads.
Senator Leila de Lima filed
Senate Bill 188, which aims
to transform the National
Council on Disability Affairs
into a National Commission
for Disability Affairs. The
shift is designed to “further
strengthen its role as the
primary agency responsible
for the implementation of
policies aimed at fulfilling
the rights of the PWD
sector.”
PWDs Transportation Facilities Disability Inclusive Accessibility
Amidst of the pandemic,   According to the
India has set its goal to International Labour
achieve a more resilient and Organization, India’s GDP
successful economy. The can increase to 7 percent
country encourages its when the cost of Persons
citizen to grasp their full with Disability is excluded.
potential, and to accomplish With an approximate $2.8
that the country should first trillion estimation of 2021-
focus to its transport 22 GDP, which could lost a
systems, wherein it is the break of approximately $232
life arteries of any economy billion.
from any countries, because
it inhibits its progression and
advancement. Hence, the
transport systems should
pass its accessibility and
inclusivity standards for all,
not only for non-disabled
 stop for them.
Mobility challenges
Alexiou, G. (2021)  The priority regarding public
transport and road
infrastructure is its physical
accessibility, but in the
world of the disabled people
it is only a fraction of their
problem, which leads to
many challenges faced by
people with disability.
 The report’s annotations
from the interviews taken
from the five interviewees
with mobility deficiencies
with no relation to their
demographic status, yet all
interviewees are similar to
one, and that is the degree
of anxiety experienced of
disabled people in using
public transportation and its
premises.
Mobility challenges
Geronia, E.(2017)  Persons with Disabilities still 
experienced most
architectural barriers every
day, such as steep and
narrow ramps, that is too
difficult for wheelchair –
bound individuals, non –
disabled individuals that
takes the area of parking
slots made for persons with
disabilities, toilets for
disabled users that are
closed, elevator switches
individuals but for the 100
million+ Persons with
Disabilities as well.
PWDs
PWDs
In the Philippines, several
laws concerning people with
disabilities are designed to
ensure the health, safety
and security of disabled
people, and also to improve
accessibility in various
spaces. Though these laws,
regardless of the quantity,
there is no guarantee that it
will inevitably develop the
everyday life of a person
with a disability.
Transportation Facilities Disability Inclusive
 According to Alexiou, the 
objective is not to create
specific suggestions but to
extract several emotional
and psychological drivers
describing inaccessibility
from the perception of a
disabled person. The report
also creates on the idea of
“mobility justice,” which all
people should have a fair
and equal opportunity to
access and use public
spaces.
Transportation Facilities Disability Inclusive
 Many centuries have passed, 
the world and even the
Philippines develops
continuously, yet in some
other parts, especially in
handling the problems 
regarding people with
disabilities, which comprises
mostly of physical
disabilities, sensory
impairments, and mental
retardation. Thus, in the
perception of a disabled
Accessibility
According to Alexiou, the
report note some significant
data points, says that 80 out
of the 270 stations in London
Underground which has a
step – free access and 65%
of persons with disabilities
used public transportation at
least once a week in the
report in 2017, wherein the
transport accessibility is
anything but a dry statistical
analysis.
Accessibility
In London, the buses have
hydraulics that lowers the
vehicle to curb level while a
ramp deploys so you can
smoothly roll in and out.
Most buildings in Japan have
automatic doors for easy
access, walkalators and
escalators have interactive
voice response (IVR)
systems, and you are always
the priority in line without
asking for it. If there is a lack
 without Braille markings, 
and pavements that lacks
detectable warning surfaces.
A modified vehicle for person, this world and of accessibility in the area,
persons with disabilities is country is all designed for the handlers are the one at
quite expensive, because able – bodied individuals. fault and are extremely
only few companies accept apologetic, because of the
modifications in vehicles inconvenience that the
that are accessible for person had experienced.
disabled persons, and also
the lack of demand, that is
why a person with
disabilities in the Philippines
is difficult, because of the
financial challenges to
acquire this modified
vehicles.

Links:

https://verafiles.org/articles/accessibility-sensitivity-toward-pwd-commuters

https://www.cnbctv18.com/views/accessible-inclusive-transport-must-to-unlock-potential-of-100-million-indians-with-disabilities-11486282.htm

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gusalexiou/2021/02/17/for-disabled-people-inclusive-transportation-is-about-much-more-than-lifts-and-ramps/?sh=47521b8b2b08

https://www.esquiremag.ph/life/health-and-fitness/the-life-of-a-pwd-in-the-philippines-a1760-20170810-lfrm?fbclid=IwAR3uxd5lV6B2FWr8zUTMRfvxVEZflYYz1Jw-ye4CCui09IRtSGBbh2Fdm7E