Article 5 # 1'2022

© Evgeniy Zelinsky, Head of the General and Passive Safety Test Laboratory of Vehicles, ORCID: 0000-0001-9129-3838,e-mail: ezelinsky@insat.org.ua;
© Yriy Lapshin, Deputy Head of the General and Passive Safety Test Laboratory of Vehicles, ORCID: 0000-0003-2716-0613, e-mail: ulapshin@insat.org.ua;
© Vasyl Lych, Leading engineer the General and Passive Safety Test Laboratory of Vehicles, ORCID:0000-0001-6727-0580, e-mail: vlich@insat.org.ua
SE “State Road Transport Research Institute”

Availability of general purpose buses for passengers with limited mobility
DOI: 10.33868/0365-8392-2022-1-269-2-34-45

Abstract. The issue of creating appropriate conditions for the access of people with limited mobility to public transport (general buses) has been disclosed; the creation of a civilized society in Ukraine, the purpose of which is to achieve the full participation of people with limited mobility in public life; ensuring the unimpeded use of buses on public routes by persons with reduced mobility.
Keywords: general purpose bus, public routes, classes of buses, passenger with reduced mobility, priority passenger, wheelchair, pram, lift, ramp, supporting plate.

References
1. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. (1991). Law of Ukraine of March 21, 1991 № 875-XII “On the basis of social protection of persons with disabilities in Ukraine” (as amended). Retrieved from https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/875-12#Text
2. Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine. (2012). Order of 17.08.2012 №521 of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine “On approval of the design of vehicles, their parts and equipment and the Procedure for maintaining a register of certificates of type of vehicles and equipment and issued by manufacturers certificates, of conformity for vehicles or equipment”. Retrieved from https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/z1586-12#Text
3. UN. (2011). Regulation No. 107, Amendment 3 «Uniform provisions concerning the approval of category M2 or M3 vehicles with regard to their general construction», 18 October 2011. Retrieved from https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/R107r7r.pdf