Thanks to the partners’ campaigning efforts with the Association du Transport Urbain du Québec (ATUQ), a meeting will be scheduled in spring 2025 to present the results of the research project. The team will be represented by Marie Turcotte (Ex aequo), Lévis-Simon Carpentier (Ex aequo), Nancy Turcotte (Clinique Parents Plus) and Marie-Hélène Verret-Corriveau (Cirris, PSVI, MAP).
At ATUQ the team will present to ATUQ representatives and members (STM, Exo, RTC, etc.). They will discuss the obstacles and supports to using AT with a child to 1) demonstrate the increased mental load caused by the obstacles experienced by user-parents, and 2) present practices that support the use of the services so that they can be implemented by all AT service providers in Quebec.
July 2024
Preliminary data from the first phase of the research, the online survey in Quebec, reports that although parents eligible for paratransit perceive more facilitating factors to the use of paratransit, the obstacles to its use with a child under 5 are more incapacitating and hinder its use.
There are facilitators and barriers to paratransit use on all levels of Khan’s adapted socio-ecological model, as preliminary results indicate, such as: child-related on the intra- and inter-personal levels, child-related on the organizational level, and human-related on the societal level.
February 2024
The research project aims to collect more data to better understand the reality of paratransit users when accompanied by a child 5 years of age or younger.
The partners, Ex aequo, RUTA Montréal, Parents Plus Clinique and the research team are collaborating closely to facilitate data collection and to show results that users will relate to.
The phase 1, an online survey, is currently active and the Phase 2, focus groups interviews, will start in Spring 2024. An infographic was created to display preliminary survey results.
