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New funding will support upgrades to buses to provide real-time travel information to passengers.

• Updated: 8 April 2024

Backed by £2.5 million of funding, specially-trained officers will enhance public safety and help prevent violence against women and girls on and around public transport.

• Updated: 6 November 2023

Travel and navigation app providers encouraged to ensure new technology offering more streamlined journeys is accessible to all users.

• Updated: 30 August 2023

Stronger enforcement powers for aviation regulator will lead to improved standards for all passengers on flights operating to and from the UK.

• Updated: 27 June 2023

Team GB wheelchair fencer and tech regulation expert will advise government on the needs and rights of passengers.

• Updated: 21 February 2023

New fund to help local authorities make improvements that enable more people to choose active travel.

• Updated: 6 February 2023

The Government’s Disability Unit is recruiting disability experts in the East of England and Yorkshire and the Humber to be chairs of its Regional Stakeholder Network.

• Updated: 1 February 2023

Aberystwyth was allocated almost £11 million from the Levelling Up Fund for several projects across the town and seafront.

• Updated: 17 January 2023

£18 million from the Levelling Up Fund is being invested in Nottingham. The funding will support three projects focused on streets and neighbourhoods across the city.

• Updated: 17 January 2023

New laws to protect disabled people in England, Scotland and Wales when travelling in taxis and PHVs.

• Updated: 1 July 2022

Pilot projects funded to explore how future transport schemes can contribute to reducing loneliness in communities.

• Updated: 23 May 2022

Findings from an assessment of the prevalence and use of wheeled mobility aids will help form an evidence base for the design of future transport.

• Updated: 29 March 2022

Funding package to roll out a mobility service to help people unable to drive access alternative forms of transport, and to improve accessibility of ferry services.

• Updated: 29 March 2022

New charter to boost consumer confidence and provide an online one-stop shop on passenger rights and complaints procedures for disabled people.

• Updated: 10 January 2022

Letter from Baroness Vere to coach, rail and local authority representatives about extended exemptions from the Public Service Vehicles Accessibility Regulations (PSVAR) 2000.

• Updated: 21 December 2021

£1 million fund to improve accessibility for disabled and reduced mobility passengers on ferries to the Isle of Wight and the Isles of Scilly.

• Updated: 1 October 2021

Initiatives announced to remove barriers and improve confidence for disabled traveller as they return to public transport after the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Updated: 28 July 2021

This summer, plan your staycation or day trip with confidence using Highways England’s access guides for motorway services.

• Updated: 26 July 2021

Budding innovators and academics awarded funding to help break down the barriers disabled people face when travelling.

• Updated: 16 July 2021

Accessibility standards to be developed for EV chargepoints across the UK, allowing disabled drivers to easily identify which models are suitable for their needs.

• Updated: 30 June 2021