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1. Accessible taxi information will be going into the Transport Direct portal from Autumn 2005 onwards. Transport Direct will be enhancing the Traintaxi information that currently exists on the portal for railway stations and this will eventually include an accessibility flag to identify those taxi firms which operate accessible vehicles. The information is being sourced from Tripscope and those Local Authorities which mandate accessible vehicles. Traintaxi will be providing the information as part of their data supply to Transport Direct. Taxi coverage will also be extended to include airports, ferry terminals and bus/coach stations by end of 2005. This will be UK wide.
2. First ScotRail recently commissioned a full audit of their rolling stock and station facilities and this was completed by Atkins Rail at the end of March 2005. The results of the audit have been provided to the Scottish Executive.
3. The Disability Discrimination Act ( DDA) was passed in 1995 to introduce new measures aimed at ending the discrimination which many disabled people face. It protects disabled people in areas such as employment and access to goods, facilities and services (which includes transport).
4. Major public transport stops include bus stations, train stations (manned) ferry terminals and airport terminals.
5. Minor public transport stops include bus stops, un-manned train stops / halts, and ferry slipways.
6. Section 46 of The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 gives the Secretary of State the power to make regulations to ensure that all new trains, trams and other track based systems, are accessible to disabled people including wheelchair users. The Government used these powers to bring the Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulations 1998 ( RVAR) into force on 1st November 1998. A small number of amendments were made to the RVAR by the Rail Vehicle Accessibility Amendment Regulations 2000. Any reference to the RVAR means the RVAR as amended.
7. Lothian Regional Transport changed its name to Lothian Buses Plc in January 2000.
8. SPT is the body responsible for public transport in west central Scotland. It covers the following local authority areas: East Ayrshire Council; East Dunbartonshire Council; East Renfrewshire Council; Glasgow City Council; Inverclyde Council; North Ayrshire Council; North Lanarkshire Council; Renfrewshire Council; South Ayrshire Council; South Lanarkshire Council; and West Dunbartonshire Council. SPT also manages the concessionary fares scheme in Argyll & Bute, but does not have responsibility for overall public transport provision in this authority area.
9. Completed questionnaires were received from Agyll & Bute; Aberdeen City; Aberdeenshire; Angus; Dumfries & Galloway; Dundee City; City of Edinburgh; Fife; Midlothian; Moray; Orkney Islands; Perth & Kinross; Scottish Borders; Shetland Islands; Stirling; West Lothian and SPT.
10. The National Public Transport Access Nodes ( NaPTAN) database is a nationwide system for uniquely identifying all the points of access to public transport in the UK, together with useful text descriptions of the stop point and its location. Every UK station, ferry terminal and bus stop etc is allocated at least one unique NaPTAN identifier. It supports the registration of bus timetables and the data collection for the Transport Direct portal.
11. Data Source: CalMac. All other data on passenger number is from Scottish Transport Statistics (2004) unless otherwise stated.
12. TransXChange provides a means to exchange bus routes and timetables between different computer systems, together with related operational data. Public transport stops are identified using the NaPTAN unique reference standard for stop IDs.
13. ATCO-CIF is a general purpose interchange format for common elements of timetable information within the travel industry. It includes record types relating to journeys, locations, operators and vehicle types etc. Its purpose and scope overlaps with TransXChange.
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