For many blind and partially sighted people, everyday journeys still come with significant barriers. That is why we have partnered with RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) in a three-year innovation partnership designed to spark real and lasting change.
From the start, this partnership has had a shared ambition: to understand the real barriers people with sight loss face, and to work together to design solutions and explore ways we can genuinely make a difference.
Disabled people make 25 percent fewer trips than non-disabled people, and one in three people with sight loss rarely or never uses public transport. Those numbers are not just statistics, they represent missed opportunities, lost independence and journeys not taken. We want to change that.
Lived experience
For two years, the Motability Foundation and RNIB have been working together on three unique projects: Future Journeys, Travel Well with Tech, and The Design for Accessible Transport. Each project puts people with lived experience at its heart, working alongside transport experts to explore key barriers and co-create insights together.
While Travel Well with Tech focuses on improving current training in technology, and Joint Innovation Working is about solving immediate challenges, Future Journeys looks ahead to reimagine an inclusive transport system.
Through immersive workshops with transport experts and people with sight loss, we are dreaming up what future transport systems could be if accessibility was built in from the start. These ideas will be brought to life through a short film that will debut this spring, designed as a call to action for the entire transport sector to rethink how we travel.
This work sits firmly within our wider strategy to build transport equity by 2030. We are investing in innovation, amplifying disabled people's voices and using evidence to inspire the transport sector at every level. Most importantly, we are making sure that people with lived experience shape the solutions, not just as participants but as partners.
This collaboration is still growing but already it is creating momentum. Together with RNIB, we are opening doors to a future where everyone has the freedom to move through the world with confidence. Find out more at future-journeys.com.
