Accessibility and affordability
Regarding accessibility and affordability, the requirement of no need for special skills or technology, as well as a barrier-free vehicle design, was rated nearly equally important by the different groups of people with mobility challenges. For low-income People, affordability is most important, while Single parents value features that allow easy travel with children (e.g., child-friendly equipment).
Regarding the requirements of acceptability:
- for Elderly people: value it when they need no special skills or technology to use it, when there are reduced prices for pensioners and barrier-free access to the vehicles;
- for Young people: it is most important to have prices for pupils/students reduced;
- for People from rural areas: value it when they need no special skills or technology to use it, when there is barrier-free access to the vehicles, and when prices are reduced for specific groups;
- for People with a migration background: it is most important to have reduced prices for specific groups;
- for Single parents: reduced pricing for certain groups, barrier-free access, no skill- or tech necessity, and easy travel with children are nearly equally important;
- for Women: reduced pricing for certain groups, no skill- or tech necessity, and barrier-free access are most important;
- for LGBTQIA+ people: a reduced pricing for certain groups, no skill- or tech necessity, and barrier-free access are most important;
- for People with low income: it is most important to have prices reduced for specific groups;
- for People with physical disabilities: barrier-free access, the fact that users need no special skills or technology, and reduced pricing for certain groups are nearly equally important;
- for People with mental disabilities: reduced pricing for specific groups is nearly equally important as having no need for special skills or technology;
- for Digitally non-connected people: it is most important that the users need no special skills or technology to use it and to have reduced prices for specific groups.
Mean values of the Accessibility items and the Affordability item for the groups of people with mobility challenges.
Note: categories are not distinct; one person can be in multiple groups. The group ‘others’ are participants not being in any of the other categories. Low-income persons are only from UK, DE, GR, NL.
Note: these data distributions are not weighted, therefore one individual can be part of different groups: e.g., an elderly woman who is not digital savvy can be part of the ‘elderly’ group, of the ‘women’ group and of the ‘digitally unsavvy’ group.