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ITS (UK) Inclusive Mobility Forum

About this Event

Our Inclusive Mobility Forum meets for the first time in 2020. This is the meeting that was originally scheduled in late 2019. The meeting will be held here at the ITS (UK) offices in London.

We aim to cover new and emerging developments of IT products which have potential to help improve mobility for disabled or older users of the transport system and the business case for each.

Speaker line-up includes:

AGENDA

12:00: Registration and Lunch

13:00: Introduction from Kris Beuret, Chair of IM Forum

13:10: Wellingborough project/improving digital skills – Kris Beuret, Social Research Associates

13.30: People focused standards and specifications for Connected and Automated Vehicles – Jennie Martin, ITS United Kingdom

13:50: “Disruption vs Inclusion – how new technology needs to build access from the ground up.”Dom Hyams, GRID Smarter Cities

14.20: Transport Accesibility: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities for User-Centred Research – Arun Ulahannan, University of Warwick

14:50: TEA BREAK

15.20: Rotating Cone Tactile Device – Aiding blind/partially sighted users – AGD / Radix

15.35: Discussion

16:15: CLOSE