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| General Principles
of Universal Design Policy |
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| III. Specific measures |
| 6. |
Realization
of public transportation that all people can use safely and smoothly |
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Expanded support is given to measures
to improve the convenience of using transportation systems through
cooperation between users, regional residents, and transportation
companies. Additionally, the opinions of concerned persons are appropriately
reflected at the same time as measures to smooth consultations between
transportation companies and organizations of regional residents are
introduced. |
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At transportation connection points such
as terminals where passengers transfer between railway lines, bus
services etc., consultative committees including transportation companies,
facility managers, and other concerned organizations are established
to promote the formation of a consensus concerning efforts to provide
uniform and easily understand guidance to transfer procedures and
to improve transfer routes. Additionally, expanded assistance is given
to transportation companies to help them establish systems and implement
specific improvement measures that comply with the results of the
consultations. |
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Expanded support and prioritization are
carried out to promote transfer smoothing measures such as introducing
transfer discount fees for transfers between railways, busses, and
other transportation modes and between different transportation companies,
and efforts to improve the provision of information about public transportation
including unified information provision by improving transfer information
guidance systems. |
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The provision of new forms of transportation
services such as community busses, taxi-sharing *13
welfare taxes *14 and so on that are closely
adapted to regional conditions is promoted. |
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(Specific
cases)
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Promotion of measures taken by regional
residents and NPO such as planning of bus operations by regional residents
and NPO, measures to realize bus transport with support such as assistance
by regional corporations (Examples include "Citizen Bus Yokkaichi"),
and so on. |
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Shared taxis: Taxis that
are shared by passengers in vehicles that can only carry up to 10
people. |
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Welfare taxis: Specialized
taxis designed with lifts etc. that can load and unload people in
wheelchairs or in stretchers provided to transport the elderly, handicapped,
and other people who cannot move without difficulty. |
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