Opinions on the first National Report of Korea on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 10. Article 20. Personal mobility 10.1 Access to public transportation 1) Current status and problems ① The 2nd Plan to Promote the Mobility Convenience of the Mobility Impaired (2012-2016) by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) stated that the ratio of accessible buses to intra-city buses will be raised to 41.5% by 2016. According to the 2013 Final Report on the Survey of Mobility Convenience by the Mobility Impaired undertaken by MOLIT, however, there were only 5,447 accessible buses, accounting for 16.4% out of the total of 33,225 local buses nationwide as of September 2013, and the introduction of accessible is on a declining trend year after year. ② While Article 3, Clause 1 of the enforcement decree of the Passenger Vehicles Operation Business Act sets forth the types of buses operated on routes as local buses, long distance buses, shuttle buses and rural area buses, Article 11 of the enforcement decree of the Act to Promote Mobility Convenience of the Mobility Impaired and its appendix exclude shuttle buses from the obligation to install accessible facilities for persons with disabilities, thus failing to assure the rights to mobility for persons with disabilities. ③ Electronic texting and audio broadcasting systems installed in buses are the very basic means to inform persons with disabilities of the location and destination of the buses and hence may be viewed as convenience systems to guarantee their rights to mobility. However, according to statistics compiled by MOLIT, the electronic texting system was installed at only 31.5% of buses of all types and the installation rate of audio broadcasting system was 79.2% as of 2011. NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF KOREA 23