Accessibility Award 2012

“This time we have chosen to award DSB the DKK 100,000 prize because DSB, with its accessibility policy, is actively contributing to improving accessibility for people with reduced mobility,” said Torben Svanberg, CEO of the Bevica Foundation, on the occasion of the award ceremony on Thursday 29 November at the Mogens Dahl Concert Hall in Copenhagen.

“In recent years, the Bevica Foundation has intensified its focus on accessibility, which means that the Foundation has provided support for, for example, parks and nature trails and generally activities in the public space, including building access, for the benefit of our target group,” says Torben Svanberg.

At DSB, Chairman of DSB's Disability Panel and member of DSB's Board of Directors Hans Christian Kirketip-Møller is delighted with the award. “We are very pleased with the price of DKK 100,000, which we have decided will be used to promote accessibility on the station apron at Fredericia railway station”, and further explains: “In close cooperation with Fredericia Municipality, we will continue the good cooperation so that customers with reduced mobility, as well as citizens of Fredericia, will find it easier to orient themselves between the city, the station apron and the station vestibule”.

According to Hans Christian Kirketip-Møller, DSB focuses on the continuous improvement of physical/functional accessibility to stations, platforms and trains in close cooperation with Banedanmark and the municipalities. DSB also attaches great importance to assistance and service to DSB's customers with reduced mobility from the vestibule, to the platform and the entry and exit of the train.

At Danish Disability Organisations, Chairman Stig Langvad also welcomes the award being given to DSB: “From the disability organisations we are pleased with the “change of track” that we have seen at DSB over recent years with the main emphasis on user involvement. This has meant that we have been regularly invited to meetings on, for example, the design of new trains, such as the IC4,” says Stig Langvad. Another area that Danish disability organisations value highly is the service provided when a disabled person has to plan a train journey.

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