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Pedestrian Accessibility: Introduction and
Context
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PEDESTRIAN ACCESSIBILITY: INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT |
| DATE: |
Tuesday, February 7, 2006 |
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TIME: |
2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Eastern |
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BACKGROUND: |
This module is part of the Designing Accessible Pedestrian Facilities in the
Public Rights-of-Way course. The course is intended to provide practicing
traffic and highway engineers, planners and transportation managers with a
better understanding the needs of pedestrians with visual, cognitive and
mobility impairments and how they relate to ADA accessibility guidelines. The
introductory module will assist engineering professionals to identify with
travel issues of pedestrians |
| INSTRUCTORS: |
Daniel L. Dawson, P.E., Principal, Otak, Inc
Dan Dawson is a licensed civil engineer with Otak, Inc, an engineering and architectural consulting firm. He is an experienced roadway and non-motorized facility designer and has spent the last three years working with the Public Right of Way Access Advisory Committee
(PROWAAC) formed by the US Access Board to formulate recommendations for providing accessibility to new facilities built within the public right of way. He was a co-author of
Building a True Community, the report published by PROWAAC. He also co-authored
Special Report: ACCESSIBLE PUBLIC RIGHTS-OF-WAY PLANNING and DESIGNING for
ALTERATIONS, published by ITE. |
Janet M. Barlow, Principal, Accessible Design for the Blind
Janet M. Barlow is a certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist and has been involved in teaching independent travel skills to individuals who are blind or visually impaired for over 30 years. Since 1992, she has been involved in the issues of access, particularly the effects of intersection design and actuation on the independent travel of pedestrians who are blind or visually impaired. She is a research associate on several national research projects on accessible pedestrian signals and is lead author of Accessible Pedestrian Signals: Synthesis and Guide to Best Practice. Janet is chair of the Environmental Access Committee of the Orientation and Mobility Division of the Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired and serves on the U.S. Access Board's Public Rights-of-Way Access Advisory Committee
(PROWAAC). She was an instructor for the Institute of Transportation Engineers' course 'Designing and Operating Intersections to Meet the Needs of All Users', and assisted in the development of the Federal Highway Administration course, 'Designing Pedestrian Facilities for Accessibility'. |
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES: |
- Discuss key provisions of ADA that require the design of accessible pedestrian facilities
- Identify key issues for pedestrians with various disabilities in travel in the public right-of-way,
including:
- Mobility impairments
- Visual impairments
- Cognitive impairments
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| STUDENT SUPPLEMENTS: |
- Pedestrian Accessibility PowerPoint presentation
- Summary Guide:
- Key References
- Further reading, references, videos and websites
- Overview of the Guidelines and their application to alterations
- Course summary
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