Research and Evidence Working Group
Updated 5 June 2025
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皇冠体育app Research and Evidence Working Group works with the Department for Transport (DfT) other stakeholders to identify gaps in data on the use of transport by disabled people, and how to fill these gaps. 皇冠体育app group also identifies evidence required by DPTAC to underpin its work.
Members
- Matthew Campbell-Hill
- Miro Griffiths
- Mari Martiskainen
- Rachael Mole
- Maral Nozratzadeh
- Zamilla Skingsley
Meeting 30 April 2025聽
皇冠体育app issues discussed included:聽
- transport data action plan聽
- DfT鈥檚 research programme on personal safety聽
- opportunities for earlier collaboration聽
Meeting 28 March 2025聽
皇冠体育app issues discussed included:聽
- DfT engagement with the working group聽
- Transport Select Committee report
Meeting 28 February 2025聽
皇冠体育app issues discussed included:聽
- 鈥榩urple pound鈥� research and how it is used聽聽
- research, research gaps,聽literature reviews, use cases and dissemination聽
- DPTAC and DfT collaboration
Meeting 24 January 2025
皇冠体育app issues discussed included:聽
- accessibility challenges at stations聽
- data interpretation and analysis聽
- data sharing protocols聽
- neurodivergent and gender-specific data聽
- organisational knowledge retention
Meeting 25 January 2024
皇冠体育app issues discussed included:聽
- trends in travel by disabled people聽聽
- a research programme progress update
- accessible and inclusive travel division鈥檚 proposed analytical programme for 2024 and 2025
Meeting 25 October 2023
皇冠体育app issues discussed included:
- DfT transport user personas toolkit
- Inclusive Transport Strategy 鈥� additional analysis of survey data preliminary findings
- Introduction to National Centre for Accessible Transport (NCAT)
- accessible and inclusive travel research projects progress update
Meeting 5 July 2023
皇冠体育app issues discussed included:
- current DfT research and forward look
- discussion on value of accessibility
- discussion on improving the quality of accessibility research
- future structure of working group meetings