An exploratory analysis of disabled people accessibility to urban public transport: the use of Geographical Information Systems

Verónica Cañal-Fernández () and Manuel Hernández Muñiz

INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, 2014, issue 30, 79-101

Abstract: The potential information available in administrative records managed by Public Administrations is vast for its value in improving the social and economic research and its utility to evaluate, judge and plan the public policies. An advance in the standardization and coordination of the information records and systems would reduce the marginal cost of operations and would update data in order to avoid the fraud and improve the transparency. Thus, the aim of this paper is merging three independent public databases that they refer to people with disabilities, their location and their accessibility to urban transport. To do this, a new and unique database is built using a Geographic Information System (GIS). It is the ability of GIS to reconcile spatial data from different sources that allows the creation of new data sets. This framework may improve the availability of needed data, promote integration of technology and encourage collaboration among firms and the public sector what would allow Public Administrations’ decision making taking into account the economic and social characteristics of the registered disabled people.

Keywords: disabled people; accessibility; interoperability; integrating public data; spatial data infrastructure; Geographical Information System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C80 D78 O21 R50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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