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1. Transport Provision for Disabled People in Scotland: Progress since 1998; Research Findings No. 180, Scottish Executive Development Department; (Reid Howie Associates Ltd , 2004)
2. See for example: Transport Provision for Disabled people in Scotland." (Henderson, S., and Henderson, B., Development Department Research Programme Research Findings No.76, 1999).; Transport Provision for Disabled People in Scotland: Progress since 1998; Research Findings No. 180, Scottish Executive Development Department; (Reid Howie Associates Ltd , 2004)
3. Scottish Executive Partnerships Agreement (2003) Scottish Executive
4. "Transport Provision for Disabled people in Scotland." (Henderson, S., and Henderson, B., Development Department Research Programme Research Findings No.76, 1999).
5. Transport Provision for Disabled People in Scotland: Progress since 1998; Research Findings No. 180, Scottish Executive Development Department; (Reid Howie Associates Ltd , 2004)
6. Transport Provision for Disabled People in Scotland: Progress since 1998; Research Findings No. 180, Scottish Executive Development Department; (Reid Howie Associates Ltd , 2004)
7. Throughout the analysis of SHS data the term 'older adults' refer to those aged 60 or over; the term 'younger adults' refer to those under 60
8. Those saying they don't want to make a journey are included on the basis that experience has shown demand for a transport service increase up to three times on demand stated prior to that service being introduced.
9. "Living and Working in the City for the Handicapped. Getting Around: A Perspective from Experience." Eurohandicap Conference, Montpellier, (Meadows, T, June 1992).
10. "Traveline and Transport Direct Disabilities Customer Research." (Department for Transport, April 2004).
11. "Disability and Mobility in London: A Follow up to the London Area Travel Survey" (Oxley, P. and Alexander, J.,Cranfield Institute of Technology, January 1994).
12. "Bodies, Disability and Spaces: the Social Model and Disabling Spatial Organisations", Disability & Society, 16, pp. 689-706 (Freund, P, 2001)
13. "Guidance on the use of tactile paving surfaces: Guidance for local authorities on the use of tactile surfaces on pavements". (Department for Transport, Published in January 1999, modified in April 2005).
14. "Researching the experiences and needs of blind and partially sighted people in the West Midlands." (Centro, 2004). West Midlands Multi-Modal Study (2001) for the Government Office for the West Midlands
15. "Review of Class 2 and Class 3 Powered Wheelchairs and Scooters (Invalid Carriages)" (Department for Transport, Forthcoming).
16. "Attitudes of Disabled People to Public Transport" , Research Study Conducted for the Disabled Persons Advisory Committee ( DPTAC), ( MORI, 2001).
17. These findings are confirmed by research conducted by DPTAC into the transport needs of disabled people, and studies undertaken for the Department for Transport, the Scottish Executive (ref: Transport Provision for Disabled People in Scotland: Progress since 1998), and as part of the West Midlands Multi-Modal Study.
18. Transport Provision for Disabled People in Scotland: Progress since 1998; Scottish Executive Development Department; Research Findings No. 180, (Reid Howie Associates Ltd; 2004)
19. Review of Demand Responsive Transport in Scotland (Scottish Executive Social Research, 2005) Unpublished
20. Manual for Assessing the Impacts of Transport Policy on Social Exclusion (European Commission, DG for Employment and Social Affairs 2003)
21. Scotland's transport future; (Transport white paper, June 2004)
22. The research team recognise that there are vast challenges relating to the development of demand-responsive transport - not least the development of systems for booking, planning and despatch. It was beyond the scope of this research to examine in great detail the optimum options for developing such a system and we would suggest this is an area for further research.
23. The Scottish Executive has commissioned research into the abuse of parking for disabled people, which is ongoing.
24. The Scottish Executive has already commissioned work examining issues around transport accessibility information, currently unpublished.
25. The system in England involves local transport authorities preparing Local Transport Plans ( LTPs) which are effectively bidding documents to central government for local transport funding. The LTP is then "judged" by the DfT and the regional Government Office, and funding awarded according to its quality. Every year the authority must submit a monitoring report to show how it has spent money and what this spending has achieved. Further funding awards are related to the quality and scale of achievements. Such a system can be criticised for being too centralised and reducing local autonomy; however, it does provide evidence of how money is spent and what it is achieving.

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