Information on the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Republic of Korea 12. Article 20. Personal mobility 12.1 Inadequate access to public transportation 1) Current status and problems ① The Mobility Enhancement for the Mobility Impaired Act recognizes the rights of persons with disabilities to use all forms of transportation equal to persons without disabilities, and yet regulates only local buses, long distance buses, and rural area buses as transportation means that need to install mobility convenience facilities (wheelchair lifts), and excludes express buses, shuttle buses and airport limousines. In addition, this law obligates long distance buses and rural area buses to install wheelchair lifts, but almost none of these buses have carried out their duties. According to the 2013 Final Report on the Survey of Mobility Convenience by the Mobility Impaired undertaken by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT), there are a total of 5,447 accessible (sliding) buses, accounting for 16.4% out of the total of 33,225 local buses nationwide as of September 2013, and the introduction of accessible buses on an annual basis is on a declining trend. ② Shuttle buses are operated in sections with no local buses and in connection with subway stations, but they do not have wheelchair lifts. ③ The Initial Report and the Second Plan to Promote the Mobility Convenience of the Mobility Impaired (2012-2016) by MOLIT mention plans to continuously expand low floor local buses and call taxis for persons with disabilities, but they do not report on the lack of access by persons with disabilities in wheelchairs to express buses, shuttle buses and airport limousines nor present measures for improvement. NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF KOREA 24