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111-7 Personal Use Vehicles - The National Mobility Equipment Dealers Association (NMEDA) estimates 20,000 vehicles of all types (e.g., automobiles, vans, trucks etc.) are modified with adaptive driving equipment annually by some 450 conversion companies. According to the Census Bureau, 4 percent of Americans ages 17 - 75 or some 7.3 million people, have physical disabilities that limit their m~bility.~ About half of these people use wheelchairs, scooters, or other mobility devices. The Exemption from Make Lnoperative Prohibition WRM (63 FR 51547, September 28, 1998) estimated that there are about 383,000 vehicles on U.S. roads modified with adaptive equipment to accommodate persons with di~abilities.~Some percentaj ;e of these vehicles are personal use vehicles, equipped with lifts and ramps. Based on a United Kingdom figure of 250,000 disabled drivers (See Automotive Engineering Lnternational, Marc 1 1998), the agency extrapolates there could easily be over 1 million disabled drivers in the U.S. population. The proportion of personal vehicles lift-equipped is unknown, and the number of WC users who drive (and need a lift) is unknown and the number of wheelchair users who are passengers (and need a lift) is unknown. 4 “In a Wheelchair and Behind the Wheel,” Specialty Market Magazine, September 20, 1998. New York Times Web Site. “Estimating the Number of Vehicles Adapted for Use by Persons with Disabilities,” <strong>NHTSA</strong> Research Note, January 1997, NCSN <strong>NHTSA</strong>.
111-8 Public Transit & Paratransit Buses - According to the APTA, some 6,000,000 people use tran,d buses on a typical weekday. Of these, about 1.2 percent or 72,000 are estimated to have disabilities6 In addition, it is estimated there are 1,411,000wheelchair users, 64,000 users oj’ scooters, 1,687,000 users of walkers, and 5 million users of canes/crutches in the U.S. all of which could potentially use lifts on public transportation vehicles.’ American Public Transit Association, APTA 1997 Fact Book “Assistive Technology Devices and Home Accessibility Features: Prevalence, Payme it, Need and Trends,” La Plante, M.P., Hendershot, G.E., and Moss, A.J., National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD 1992.
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VIII-6 Many hundreds of small busin
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