Accessibility of Vehicles for Persons with Disabilities: Current Problems and Ways to Solve them

Abstract

The analysis of the current state of the manufacture and conversion of motor vehicles in Ukraine was carried out in the context of the issue of ensuring the accessibility of vehicles for persons with disabilities. It has been established that currently in Ukraine, in the sector of motor vehicle manufacture, there is rare manufacture organized, mainly as large-unit assembly, oriented at the domestic market.

A review of the relevant normative-and-legal acts and regulatory documents was considered. Main requirements for the manufacture and trade of motor vehicles and their components which have identification numbers, as well as for the admission of vehicles to road traffic and their state registration are defined in Articles 29, 30 and 34 of the Law of Ukraine “On Road Traffic”; the requirements for the conversion of vehicles are defined in the first and second parts of Article 32 of the Law of Ukraine “On Road Traffic”.

Priorities in the matter of ensuring the accessibility of motor vehicles for persons with disabilities have been determined. The major ones are the strengthening of inspection of the presence of registration documents of vehicles with manual control, drawn up in accordance with the requirements of current legislation; introduction of license plates of a separate series, which enable identification of such vehicles participating in road traffic; the manual control mechanisms must meet the mandatory requirements of the rules and regulations in terms of ensuring the safety of the construction; stimulation of domestic manufacture of vehicles equipped with manual control mechanisms; introduction of an effective and transparent system of inspection of the technical condition of vehicles, in particular, ones with manual control mechanisms installed.