On 9 September 2025, the Accessible Transport Policy Commission, part of the National Centre for Accessible Transport (NCAT) launched its first report, Joined-Up Policies, Joined-Up Journeys: Roadmapping Accessible Transport for the UK and Devolved Governments. 

The report highlights that disabled people face a ‘postcode lottery’ in transport, recommending joined-up strategies and stronger regulation across the UK to build the foundations for an accessible transport system over the next five years. The report sets out practical roadmaps for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to address these issues and improve accessibility across the UK. Crucially, the report recommends that disabled people must be involved in every stage of transport decision making, with co-production serving as a guiding principle for each of the roadmaps.  

Through these findings, the report echoes recommendations from CIHT, shared as part of the inquiry’s call for evidence and policy roundtable for England, which was attended by CIHT’s Director of Policy and Technical Affairs, Antoneta Horbury.  

Most notably, CIHT’s report Creating a Public Realm for All called for funding to facilitate disability equality awareness training, for organisations to consider accessibility from the outset of all projects and for transport professionals to observe the principles of co-cultivation, namely sustained and meaningful engagement with all those with an interest in a proposed project or upgrade.  During the inquiry’s policy roundtable for England, CIHT highlighted the absence of guidance for infrastructure accessibility and impairment of accessible infrastructure following maintenance works.  

We therefore welcome the report’s recommendations that ‘every stage of policy and project delivery must be co-produced with disabled people’ and accessibility and disability awareness training should be mandated for all public-facing transport staff and managers within Transport for Wales, Transport Scotland and the Department for Infrastructure. 

You can read the full report here.