1. A System to facilitate comfortable Travel of wheelchair users and other passengers with mobility Problem in Trains Callidai Motor Works, Chennai National Centre for Accessible Environments, New Delhi, India in association with RDSO, Lucknow

2. Ground Realities Large number of wheelchair users, senior citizens, persons with mobility problems and reduced mobility cannot travel with Indian Railways since getting “in” and “out” of the train is a Herculean task

3. Coach boarding/deboarding

4. What needs to be done? A transit ramp or lift that can bridge the gap!

9. Mock up for ramp with Northern Railways

10. Transfers from the platform to the carriages and vice-a-versa The mechanisms to bridge the horizontal and the vertical gap between the platform and the coach. A portable “wheelift” is tried and tested at the New Delhi Railway station with Engineers of Northern Railways, RDSO and representatives of Railway Board.

11. Solution for high rail coaches

14. Rail Coach Boarding- Prototype ‘Wheelift’

15. How does the “wheelift” operate ?

16. With Value Addition – Space for Sponsors to Advertise their Services/ Products

18. IGI airport, New Delhi

19. located at the entrance of the Railway Stations with proximity to the Auto stand and Car park. will also have a unique / popular mobile phone number that would be answered by the wheelift operator. Usage

20. An estimated 8,000 PwDs across 160 major railway stations, including Senior citizens would benefit by utilizing the wheelift every day !! Annually 3 million passengers would use the facility.

21. Cost of “wheelift” The total cost would be approximately INR 3.90 Lakhs (0.39 million) inclusive of all taxes and levies per wheelift

22. Value additions Indigenously manufactured Cost effective Easy to maintain Replicable Self sustainable

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