In conversation with CIHT’s Justin Ward, Charlotte explores what exclusion looks like in the context of transport for people with disabilities, which are experienced by over a billion people globally.

She explains what the World Bank is doing to ensure that the transport projects it supports capture the demands and needs of disabled people, and gives a view as to what the World Bank worries about when programming its road transport projects.

Technology and innovation, she added, are changing the complexion of transport for everyone and can help people with disabilities to travel. Charlotte also discusses how well she thinks people with hidden disabilities are supported in developed and developing countries.

The Department for International Development and the Department for Transport in the UK are organising a session on disability inclusive road transport at the World Road Congress in Abu Dhabi in October this year. Charlotte explains what messages she hopes this session can deliver.

“Diversity is part of our human experience and it’s also about understanding that the onset of disability happens at many stages of our lives: people are born with disabilities, people acquire disabilities later in life, and then there is disability that comes with the onset of ageing,” she said in the interview. “So it’s a part of our life span and for us not to plan for that seems very limiting from a planning point of view.”

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