ABSTRACT
Many Swedish municipalities have left it to the local public transport company or to the taxi organizations to administer and plan the handicap transports at will. The complex task of handling all journeys may therefore not have permitted any in-depth analysis of the various resources required. Recent advances in computer system technology, however, have enabled a modification of attitudes towards the planning of handicap transports. Today, an advanced computer system can assist the planning operator with immediate computation of the most efficient planning of the desired journey. Urban areas represent major transport volumes not only because of the concentration and number of people living there but also because of the fact that the transport need per person is higher in cities than in rural areas. In a rural area the system may count a suitable vehicle in the area in question as being optimum for the interlined transport plan.
