Sustainable Public Transport Service Adapted for People with Disabilities and Reduced Mobility in the Municipality of León, Guanajuato, Mexico

Fabiola Colmenero-Fonseca, Carlos Daigoro Fonce-Segura, Alejandro Guzmán-Ramírez and Mariana Flores-García
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Fabiola Colmenero-Fonseca: Department of Habitat and Urban Development, ITESO, The Jesuit University of Guadalajara, Tlaquepaque 45604, Jalisco, Mexico
Carlos Daigoro Fonce-Segura: Coordinator of the National Commission on Universal Accessibility, National Executive Committee 2021–2022, León 37218, Guanajuato, Mexico
Alejandro Guzmán-Ramírez: Department of Architectural Department, Architecture Art and Design Division, University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato 36000, Mexico
Mariana Flores-García: Research and Postgraduate Area, American University of Europe, UNADE, Cancún 77500, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 13, 1-16

Abstract: Urban mobility makes it possible to incorporate new perspectives that make it possible to question and problematize the way in which social links and relations between city dwellers are shaped. In this way, mobility constitutes an increasingly massive, recurrent, and complex social practice, strongly conditioned by the existing levels of inequality and particularly those that entail processes of social exclusion. In the present research, the efficiency of the modality of adapted public transportation for people with disabilities in the city of León, Guanajuato, Mexico, which came into operation in 2012, receiving the 2019 Building Equality Award from the International Center for the Promotion of Human Rights and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is analyzed. The management, design, and implementation of Inclusive Urban Transportation (TÜI), demonstrated how the articulation of actors (public, private, and civil society) are of vital importance for the success of the project. In this sense, it is important to count on the permanent participation of focus groups that identify and understand the real needs of users with reduced mobility. The results achieved allow establishing an evaluation that contributes to detect and mitigate the conditions of vulnerability, risk, and segregation of people with disabilities.

Keywords: sustainable transportation; universal accessibility; urban mobility; resilience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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