Addressing the accessible transportation gap: access in an age of digital disruption

With 2019 seeing multiple overlapping efforts to promote openness in government, better data management and effective co-creative processes for policy creation and service delivery, there is a lot of constructive energy that can be put to use towards this objective. The trick will be to turn good intentions and opportunity into meaningful action.

Public Services and Procurement Minister Carla Qualtrough, pictured in this file photograph at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa, is responsible for Bill C-81, the Accessible Canada Act. With the bill currently in the Senate, we may soon face an inflection point with regards to accessibility in Canada and we should view this as a 'Sputnik moment' to catalyze us to action on accessible transportation, writes Mark Robbins. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MARK ROBBINS

February 25, 2019

Transportation is often associated with hard infrastructure such as roads, tracks, curbs, airports, and ferry terminals. In the not so distant past, it was rare to think of digital technologies as being important to transportation. Today, the reality of the sector is much different. First, it was di...

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