Good morning all,
Hope this email finds you well and great to see you last week at TRB. Just
wanted to recap what I mentioned in your committee meeting (thanks for
fitting me in Ipek!). Love to have any help you and your network can
provide to advance this project.
All people in a community rely on the transportation network to get from
point A to point B in the interest of living, working, and playing.
However, the system historically has not been designed to benefit all users
equally. More specifically, there are design and planning considerations
that have not been wholly considered, resulting in adverse consequences to
the physical mobility plus the interactive and safe use of streetscapes for
people with disabilities. Those design and planning considerations have
proliferated over the years for various reasons and context, but boil down
to a lack of awareness of the concept of inclusive accessibility and the
real life implications to end users (understanding “to walk in their
shoes”).
Deliverables
-
Resource guide exploring streetscape accessibility from mobility,
vision, hearing, cognitive ability, and language barrier perspectives.
Exploring from conceptualization, community engagement, design,
construction, and maintenance of the streetscape for accessibility.
-
Federal advocacy push for a transit ready communities legislative idea
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ya7KIT77xEBmuEWmSvIDWuFrTC853MgbeNtW2NH…>,
aimed to push for standards development, discretionary and formula funding
to facilitate accessible streetscapes, and support land use and zoning
innovation.
-
Development of accessible streetscape guidelines for incorporation
into NACTO’s
Urban Street Design Guide
<https://nacto.org/publication/urban-street-design-guide/> and other
related enforceable guidelines.
So my hope in this announcement is seeking volunteers and support for the
development of this project, specific asks include:
- Peer reviewer of an end user survey (PDF
<https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A92e20ef6…>
and surveyMonkey
<https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Preview/?sm=qXEgXufPAVcXzYIhBpd8DcuL1MNr59Wb…>),
due to go out this spring (tentative mid March 2024 for 60 days)
- So appreciate help with peer review to be completed by the end of
February 2024
- Assistance in distributing the end user survey across the
country/internationally
- Peer review of the literature / best practices catalog
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16LL6kNyI7jt9KY3nUAysRkJwpfSDmWFb_d0…>
- Peer reviewer of the resource guide, later in 2024
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Feel free to reach out to me or direct any volunteers my way. Thanks!
Benito
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*Benito O. Pérez, AICP CTP CAPP, (he/him/his)*
Policy Director
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A project of:
I am Co-editor of a new book “Health on the Move 3: The Reviews” being published this year. Chapter 2 (I’m co-author) is a systematic review of reviews on Disability and Travel, which you may find helpful.
We will also be producing a virtual special issue in Journal of Transport and Health with cut-down versions of each chapter, including one on disability and travel, which I hope will be open access.
Every chapter (and the journal papers) are (will be) peer reviewed.
Regards
Jenny
Professor Jennifer Mindell
Emerita Professor of Public Health
Health and Social Surveys Research Group
Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
UCL
1-19 Torrington Place
London WC1E 6BT
Web: IRIS web page<http://iris.ucl.ac.uk/research/personal/index?upi=JMIND63>
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7604-6131
I have retired and am being very selective about what I do.
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Dear Committee Members and Friends,
We are just a few days away from the upcoming 103rd Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting<https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/31250916/www.trb.org?p=eyJzIjoiczJJXzNo…> and are very excited about it!
Attached is the agenda for our committee meeting<https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/31250916/annualmeeting.mytrb.org?p=eyJz…>, scheduled for Tuesday, January 9, 2024, from 8 AM to noon (US Eastern Time), at Marriott Marquis, Independence Salon D (M4), Washington, DC.
We have a full agenda, featuring various opportunities to network, socialize, visit posters, hear from each other, celebrate, enjoy presentations from our fantastic lightning speakers, and define a path forward for our research agenda and other committee activities. Hope you can join us!
For those who may not be able to join TRB in person, we will provide a virtual connection for the last two parts of the committee meeting as listed in the agenda (with login available starting at 9 AM ET). Note that the quality of the connection will depend on the conference hotel bandwidth given the various simultaneous events, but we hope to make it work.
The last page of our agenda includes a list of all podium, poster, and workshop sessions that we are sponsoring or co-sponsoring this year. We hope you can join us for these wonderful sessions.
We look forward to seeing many of you soon!
Thanks, and have safe travels!
Ipek
Ipek Sener, Chair, Standing Committee on Transportation and Public Health (AME70)
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