The Resource Collection

Document summary

With the Resource Collection project, the National Centre for Accessible Transport (ncat) aimed to map and bring together the United Kingdom’s current ‘resource landscape’ or ‘knowledge’ of accessible transport.
In this project, when we talk about ‘resources’, we mean explicit ‘knowledge’ that is captured and shared using more formal formats, such as reports, Government policy documents, White Papers, journal papers, books, or data spreadsheets. When this project started, there was no comprehensive collection of the information and evidence (or ‘resources’) that existed about accessible transport in the United Kingdom (UK). Without such a collection it can be harder to find the information and evidence needed to improve transport accessibility and understand what knowledge is missing. Initially this mapping was to identify existing resources in relation to ncat’s first planned research projects. However it became clear quite quickly that by expanding the search to all map as many resources as possible, this would be a valuable resource for anyone working in the area of transport accessibility. This initial evidence gathering started in August 2023 and finished in March 2024. The project outputs are a report of findings and a ‘Resource Collection’ spreadsheet.