The Ombudsoffice of Disabled Persons participated in the
14th International Conference on Mobility & Transport for
the for Elderly and the Disabled Persons (TRANSED 2015), which took place
in Lisbon, from 28 to 31 of July 2015. In this conference, participated also
internationally renowned experts, mainly from European Union and Asia, as well
as national politicians.
SIA (Accessible Itineraries System) was born in the nasceu
no scope of the Elaboration of Porto’s Accessibility Promotion Plan. SIA is an application for consultation
origin/destination based on an accessibility diagnosis to the streets, spaces
and public facilities in the Porto City.
The structure of this project is organized over the
public transport network, more specifically about the Metro network, because
metro is more suitable to receive our kind of "customers", since its
composition doesn’t change and all the stations are accessible. With this
"metro-concentric" scheme we seek to identify, within a 500 meters
radius, the essential connections between the stations, other public transports
(buses, trains, etc.), facilities (educational, cultural, sportive, health,
etc.), public spaces and other remarkable "urban events".
The Accessible Itineraries System allows the online consultation
of optimized accessible paths, digitally calculated between two previously
chosen points.The implementation of this project enables the extent of the
accessibility map throughout the territory, ensuring continuity elements,
sorting relations between pathways, equipments and monuments.
The public transportation support helps us achieving
the goals defined for this project, affirming its inter-municipal and
inter-regional nature.
This award came to recognize the work developed in the
accessibility scope in Porto city and encourage to do always more and better
for all the citizens.
