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
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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.
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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.
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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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