ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that for transport to be truly ‘public’, it must be accessible to everyone. This has implications for the way in which transport systems are designed but also in how they are planned within the context of the geographical and temporal situations in which they happen. To achieve this, it is necessary to delve beneath the superficial issues of measurements and regulations to see how people function in relation to the environment – in the transport system in particular. The chapter will then consider how this sets the requirements for the design of the system – as a whole but also in its constituent parts – so as to achieve a transport system which is truly accessible to all.
