There will be a 25% increase in people with disabilities in the older, less populated Italy of 2060. With regard to mobility, there will be 2 million people with disabilities who will use means of transport, 50% of whom will drive cars as they will not give up their right to drive. In this scenario, and regarding the issue of how local public transport systems will be able to respond to the requirements of these people, the right denied to people with disabilities to sustainable mobility will worsen in 2060 unless Italy takes decisive action to improve sustainable development.
This is what emerged from the research “Il paradosso della mobilità (The paradox of mobility)” carried out by the Unipolis Foundation in association with ANGLAT (Associazione Nazionale Guida Legislazioni Andicappati Trasporti, National Association of Guidelines on Legislation for Transport for Disabled Persons) which compares today’s Italy with the Italy of the future in the 2020 European Mobility Week and as part of the AsviS Sustainable Development Festival.
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