Mobility Mapper

Help build the UK's
route map for
wheelers

Help build the UK's route map for wheelers

Mobility Mapper is a free app for wheelchair users, mobility scooter riders, handcyclists and tricyclists.

Record your journeys, add the barriers you find, and help create a map of routes that genuinely work for you.

Map accessible toilets and Blue Badge parking too, so other wheelers know what’s there before they set out.

Available on iPhone and Android

Every Journey Builds the Map

The UK is the first country to build a dedicated route network for wheelers, and you're at the heart of it.

Mobility Mapper is gathering real-world data from wheelchair users, mobility scooter riders, and tricyclists. Every journey you record helps build the wheelable network: a growing map of the UK's streets that shows which routes are genuinely passable for people using wheeled mobility devices.

Phone showing the Mobility Mapper app with a Bristol network map

How it works

Download and sign up

Free on iPhone and Android. Create an account, add your mobility device, and you're ready to go.

Record your journeys

Open the app and hit record whenever you head out. It automatically tracks your route using GPS.

Map what you find

Log barriers as you go - dropped kerbs, steps, narrow paths - and add accessible toilets and parking.

Build it together

Your journeys join thousands of others, and wheelers confirm each other's additions - keeping the map reliable.

Report Barriers

As you travel, you can flag the barriers that block your path or make it difficult to use. And barriers aren't the only thing you can map - accessible toilets and Blue Badge parking spaces go on the map too.

Wheelchair user stopped at a staircase with no ramp or alternative access

Steps

Steep uphill street that is difficult for wheelchair users and others with mobility needs to navigate

Steep Slopes

Uneven cobblestone pavement that makes wheelchair access difficult

Uneven Surfaces

Metal gate blocking a narrow path, restricting access

Gates

Wheelchair user on a pavement with no accessible dropped kerb to cross the road

High Kerbs

Narrow metal barrier at the end of a pedestrian path, making it difficult for wheelchairs or bikes to pass

A-Frames

Bollards

Parked cars narrowing the route, making it difficult for wheelchair users to pass safely

Parked Vehicles

Roadworks

Narrow pavement partially blocked by posts and chains, limiting wheelchair access

Narrow Pathways

Broken and uneven kerb surface that prevents safe wheelchair access across the road

Unusable Dropped Kerbs

Street corner with no dropped kerb and metal posts blocking access to the crossing

Inaccessible Crossing

Every report is pinned to the map with its exact location, so the picture of the UK's barriers - and its accessible toilets and parking - grows with every journey.

Accessible Toilets and Blue Badge Parking

Going somewhere new comes with two questions: where can I park, and where are the toilets I can actually use? Mobility Mapper puts both on the map — added and checked by wheelers themselves.

Every toilet and parking space carries the details that matter — Blue Badge bays, RADAR keys, opening times, charges — pinned to its exact spot. If something's missing or has changed, you can add it or update it in the app, and every wheeler after you benefits.

Two Mobility Mapper map cards: Greenfield Square Car Park with seven free Blue Badge bays, and Victoria Gardens Public Toilet — accessible, RADAR key, free, open 24 hours

Part of something bigger

The wheelable network doesn't exist yet — but every journey you record brings it closer.

Recording your journeys is the first step towards giving wheelers the kind of route planning tools that motor vehicle drivers, walkers and cyclists have always taken for granted. The GPS data you generate, combined with the barriers, toilets and parking you map, will build a picture of the UK's streets for the first time — and give planners, councils and transport bodies the evidence they need to make those streets work better for everyone.

Your data is anonymised and is never shared with third parties without your explicit consent.

Together, we're building something the UK has never had before — one journey at a time.

The app works anywhere in the UK. If you're in England, you can also join our pilot study — find out about the pilot study and how you can be part of it.

Illustration of the UK as a jigsaw, its pieces linked by a network of yellow routes and junctions