Last-Mile Transportation Options for Users of All Differing Abilities

This page will be a home for discussions about every kind of transportation that can be practical for transportation for short distances, such as a "last-mile" from other transportation options to a desired location. Every kind of system should eventually be included, with descriptions and lilnks, to make it as easy as possible to identify options for people with every kind of ability and every kind of transportation challenge. Such transportation options will be indexed by a set of yet to be defined criteria. Please add materials appropriate to this topic.

Editors Note: DISCLAIMER: Information about commercially available products and services is for educational purposes only at this point. We can certainly define later the criteria used to determine whether and how to include information about commercial product and service offerings, making certain that any such listing CAN imply endorsement based on a comprehensive set of consumer protections agreed to, endorsed, independently tested and monitored, ensured, and supported by the vendors.

• This existing page on Appropedia is in need of a major makeover and update: Appropriate Technology Sourcebook/Personal Transport for Disabled People. (Suggest name change to "... for users of all differing abilities."
• BraunAbility company manufactures multiple types of automobile and van adaptations for people of varying physical ability, including wheelchair ramps for entering multiple vehicle types, plus seats that swivel, lower, raise to help people with limited strength and climbing ability to enter into cars. Devices are customized for each vehicle brand and model. https://www.braunability.com/us/en.html Other companies make similar kinds of vehicle adaptations. We will need, eventually, criteria for determining which companies shall be included or excluded from listings, and to ensure fairness in listings.
• “kneeling” buses -- Move "up" to a page about mass transportation options. Separate transportation topics into major categories of personal, last mile, shared, community, and mass transportation?

Insert image matrix to show many of the available options being used.

• Segway wheelchairs.
• Autonomous Wheelchairs (now available for users at Detroit Wayne County Airport). https://www.metroairport.com/about-us/dtw-news/wayne-county-airport-authority-partners-unifi-bring-autonomous-wheelchairs-dtw
• https://travelwheelchair.net/collections/daily-living-wheelchairs Foldable and travel wheelchairs.