Accessibility

Accessibility for each individual plays a pivotal role from the very first outlines: Our goal is to achieve the highest degree of passenger comfort.

Persons with varying capacities must be able to use the designs without the need for special modifications or adaptations.

• Accessible design criteria

  From the onset of each project, CAF adopts the following accessible design criteria for their rail projects:

  
  

  - Visibility, regardless of sensory capacities.

  - Operability, regardless of physical capacities.

  - Ease, of understanding and use, regardless of experience, educational attainment or level of concentration.

  - Indulgence, minimizing error occurrences and their consequences.

• Rolling stock applicable standards

  Technical Specification for Interoperability Accessibility for persons with reduced mobility.
  European Union, 2008

  
  Royal Decree 1544/2007
  The Spanish Government, 2007

  
  Rail Vehicle Accessibility Regulation
  Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (GB), 1998

  
  UIC 565-3. Indications for the layout of coaches suitable for conveying disabled passengers in their wheelchairs
  Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 2003

  
  Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accesibility Specifications for Transportation Vehicles
  Federal Government, 2008

• Investigations with end users
  

• Description
• Images
• Vehicle access
• PRM Zones
• Accessible WCs
• Miscellaneous