Includ-ed, red europea de educación inclusiva

The 14th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 28 to 31 July 2015. The 14th TRANSED conference will be hosted by Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), a prestigious school of Engineering, Science and Technology of the Universidade de Lisboa (www.ist.eu)

Background of TRANSED series of conferences

Founded in the 1970's by Professor Norman Ashford (University of Loughborough) and Professor William Bell (University of Florida), the International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled People has been held twelve times in nine countries. From its roots as a small, specialised meeting of researchers, the Conference today attracts between 600 and 1,000 delegates from up to 40 nations on six continents (see Chronology of Conferences at Annex A). Conference proceedings are a standard reference for researchers, planners and operators alike, and are referenced in the TRB Transport Research Information Database TRID (http://trid.trb.org/).

Professionals and end users throughout the world recognize the TRANSED series Conferences as a major forum for scientific and conceptual advances in the pursuit of mobility and access for elderly and disabled people as well as for the dissemination of practical information on policy formation and implementation of advances in our field around the world.

In recent times, the Conference has been held every three years, with the exception that the New Delhi Conference in 2012 will be held only two years after the preceding Conference. From the outset, the TRANSED series of Conferences have been held primarily to serve the needs of transport professionals; including researchers, policy makers, planners, administrators and operators. Elected government officials and end users are also key participants at the Conferences. The main objective of the Conference remains to promote and encourage the development of transport services and systems that meet the needs of people with a disability through the exchange and dissemination of knowledge and experience.

TRANSED 2015 takes the ambitious goal of enlarging the scope of the conference to all sorts of disabilities and sources of exclusion (e.g. physical, logical/cognitive, economic/financial, temporary/permanent, etc). In New Delhi, September 2012, we have set the scene for an overarching topic of the 2015 conference that is “Aim and Manage for Inclusive Access”.

Conference Program

The following information regarding the Conference Program is now available here