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Reported Design Processes for Accessibility in Rail Transport

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Accessibility is a fundamental requirement in public transport (PT) yet there exists little research on design for accessibility or inclusive design (ID) in this area. This paper sets out to discover what methods are used in the rail sector to achieve accessibility goals and to examine how far these methods deviate from user-centred and ID norms.

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  1. Design Platform, Aarhus School of Architecture, Aarhus, Denmark

    R. Herriott

  2. User-Centred Design Group, Loughborough Design School, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK

    S. Cook

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  1. Department of Engineering Cambridge Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    P. M. Langdon

  2. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Universal Usability Lab., Towson University, City, Maryland, USA

    J. Lazar

  3. Dept. of Architecture, Urbanism & Planning, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium

    A. Heylighen

  4. College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

    H. Dong

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Herriott, R., Cook, S. (2014). Reported Design Processes for Accessibility in Rail Transport. In: Langdon, P., Lazar, J., Heylighen, A., Dong, H. (eds) Inclusive Designing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05095-9_14

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