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Stations Made Easy David Sindall Head of Disability & Inclusion david.sindall@atoc.org. Overview. Stations Made Easy Explained. How it works. Lessons learned . What next. Stations Made Easy Explained.
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Stations Made EasyDavid SindallHead of Disability & Inclusiondavid.sindall@atoc.org
Overview Stations Made Easy Explained How it works Lessons learned What next
Stations Made Easy Explained • An interactive tool for older and disabled passengers that enables people to evaluate station accessibility. • Covers all 2500+ stations on the GB rail network • Housed within the National Rail Enquiries website (GB’s main rail journey planning website). • Developed in partnership between ATOC/National Rail Enquires and MITIE Compliance (Direct Enquiries).
Stations Made Easy Explained • 3 levels of information • Station Overview • Plan a route • Accessibility Summary
Plan a route Menu Choices Step by step route generated
What we have learnt • Over 500K unique visits to the pages each year. • Reasonable results but still passengers have difficulty locating the information. • For information to be effective it has to be available in a number of different locations. • Mainstreaming is one answer but we also need dedicated sites for older and disabled passengers.
What next? • A Stations Made Easy Ap. • Considering open station pages up for passenger comments (like with trip advisor). • Stations Made Easy has been shown to work in other languages and in other countries. • Subject to budget could be further developed as a planning assistance tool.