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September 4, 2018

Pedestrian Connections: Planning for the Walkability Needs of Older Adults and People with Disabilities from Current Conditions to a Future with Automated Vehicles September 4, 2018

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Webinar Agenda

Overview: NADTC • Rachel Beyerle, Communications Director

University of Montana • Meg Traci, PhD

Pedestrian Bicycle Information Center • Laura Sandt, PhD • Michael Clamann, PhD

Facilitated Discussion/Q&A

www.nadtc.org

NADTC Overview

Partnership: Easterseals and the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging Funding: Federal Transit Administration with guidance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living Mission: To promote the availability and accessibility of transportation options for older adults, people with disabilities and caregivers Functions: Technical Assistance, Information & Referral; Training; Communication and Outreach; Community Grants

www.nadtc.org

Walkability and Accessibility to Public Transportation with a focus on travel for Older Adults and People with Disabilities

• Accessible Pathways Guide • Access to Transit Assessment • Driver and Pedestrian Safety Guide • Neighborhood Wayfinding Guide & Assessment • April 2017 #SafeWalking Twitter Chat • Snow Removal Guide All are available at nadtc.org!

NADTC Pedestrian Resources

Rachel Beyerle Communications Director, NADTC

202.347.3066 | [email protected]

[email protected]

866-983-3222

www.nadtc.org

An Inclusive, Interdisciplinary Approach to Making Walkable Communities

National Aging and Disability Transpiration Center Webinar Series:

Pedestrian Connections: Planning for the Walkability Needs of Older Adults and People with Disabilities from Current Conditions to a Future Environment with Automated Vehicles

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Meg Ann Traci, PhD

University of Montana Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities

Montana Disability and Health Program

©2018

Acknowledgements • NACDD Grant– Cathy Costakis and Karma Harris

• Helena Partner Coaches– Karen Lane and Scott Birkenbuel • Butte Partner Coaches– Karen Sullivan and Todd Hoar • Mark Fenton • Success Stories are available at:

https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/reaching-people.html

• Montana CILs– Summit ILC, MILP, LIFTT, and NCILS

• MTDH Disability Advisors: Liz Ann Kudrna and Chris Siller

• MTDH Accessibility Ambassadors– Travis Hoffman, Chris Clasby, Susan Morris, Scott Birkenbuel, Joel Peden, Bob Maffit, Chris Siller, Cassie Weightman, Les Clark, Theresa Gardner, Allice de Chelley, Jed Barton, Steve Woodard, Shyla Patera, Jerry Clark, Becky Clark, Joel Patera, and Mark Sanders

• Healthy Community Coalitions and BACI Action Teams

• Bike Walk Montana and Bike Walk Helena

• MDT

• Others





What makes a walkable community? Persons with disabilities in all communities are part of the answer.

Figure 1.

The continuation of a movement… The walkability of communities for all Americans depends on the solutions of all its members, including people with disabilities.

Photo by Tom Olin

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Who is meeting at this confluence? Members of inclusive community planning groups

Solutions to building walkable

communities for all.

“Universal Design is the design and composition of an environment so that it can be accessed,

understood and used to the greatest extent possible by all people, regardless of their age, size

or disability.” (Disability Act, 2005)

To learn more about universal design, visit: http://universaldesign.ie/What-is-Universal-Design/

Include persons with disabilities to push the boundaries. Put inclusion at the front of the train to expand the rationale for your work. See: The Myth of Average (…designing to the edges), Todd Rose’s TEDx Talk, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eBmyttcfU4

Why do we do make communities walkable?

• Dignity • Equity

• Freedom • Independence

• Comfort • Social

Capital • Economic

Vitality

• Health • Safety • Welfare

Inclusion in walkable communities

• Inclusion is about environmental attributes that connect people with disabilities to their community (e.g., social life, jobs, healthy eating and physical activity opportunities)

• --What we know works (e.g., PROWAG)

• --What we can imagine “In 1988, activists took hammers to the

curbs of Hollywood’s Walk of Fame” New Mobility (6/1/2009). Available at: http://www.newmobility.com/2009/06/sidewalk-wars

Photos by Tom Olin

Pablo, MT

http://www.newmobility.com/2009/06/sidewalk-wars




Table 1: Montana - Heart Disease and Stroke (HDS)

HP2020 Goal: Improve cardiovascular health and quality of life through prevention, detection, and treatment of risk factors for heart attack and stroke; early identification and treatment of heart attacks and strokes; and prevention of repeat cardiovascular events (e.g., heart attacks, hospitalizations for heart failure, and strokes)

Measure: Reduce to 27% the proportion of adults with hypertension

Year All Adults Adults with

Disability

Adults without

Disability

HP2020 Target

2015 29.1% 47.4%* 24.4%* 27%

Source MT BRFSS 2015

Inclusion is about partnerships and leadership:

in order to fulfill leadership roles on the inclusion of people with disabilities in walkable communities.

Broaden your partnership to include disability representatives…

America Walks is partnered with the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL.org), the National Center on Health, Physical Activity, and Disability (NCHPAD) and other disability organizations.

Centers for Independent Living (CIL) To find your areas CIL, visit: http://www.ilru.org/projects/cil-net/cil-center-and-association-directory

Many America Walks state and local ally organizations are partnered with Centers for Independent Living throughout the U.S.

http://www.ilru.org/projects/cil-net/cil-center-and-association-directory












The Montana Disability and Health Program partners with Montana’s four CILs to implement a range of activities including inclusive, interdisciplinary team facilitated walk audits (I2WALK) with America Walks state and local ally organizations. Mark Fenton has provided training and technical assistance to support these efforts.

Montana’s CILs 1. Summit ILC 2. Montana

Independent Living Project (MILP)

3. North Central Independent Living Services (NCILS)

4. Living Independently for Today and Tomorrow (LIFTT)

Additional acknowledgements: --Lewis and Clark Public Health --Butte Silver-Bow Public Health and Developmental Disabilities Council

What is a walk audit?

•Facilitated group walk of an area to explore its support of physical activity, active transportation, and healthy food access.

•Usually held as part of a workshop with introductory and planning sessions to develop recommendations for action.

•Effective tool for education, inspiration, & practical planning. An act of shared discovery!

Louisville KY pedestrian planning

Mark Fenton ©2017

When to do a walk audit?

•During comprehensive & project planning, public input and comment.

•Policy review: zoning, design guidelines, schools, etc.

• Introducing infrastructure; roundabouts, road diets, back-in parking; trails; etc.

•Events: walk & bike to school/work, pop-ups, open streets, cyclovia, festivals, etc.

Conrad, IA

Back-in angle parking in Billings, MT

Mark Fenton ©2017

At the heart of I2WALk is a trained interdisciplinary team representing: 1. Public Health 2. Land Use and Planning 3. Engineering, DPW and

infrastructure 4. Disability experts

- Define disability as “a dynamic interaction between a person and the environment.” (WHO, 2001)

What makes I2WALK interdisciplinary teams inclusive?

• People with disabilities are decision-makers in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the walking audit.

• These team members have training in the Americans with Disabilities Act, Orientation and Mobility (O&M) and/or related codes & guidelines, to provide technical assistance on healthy community solutions for all.

Hutchinson KS

Preparing for the I2WALK • Identify workshop location (accessible meeting space)

• Scout the Route: Choose the locations, targets on route (use I2WALK targets checklist to gather I2 Team notes)

• Text descriptions of route

• Identify significant barriers • plan for alternate transportation

• plan for short alternate routes

• Targets include schools; public transportation and bike shelters; trail and greenway facilities, open space, and recreational areas; a diversity of residential developments and retail/commercial settings; diversity of sidewalks, curb cuts and amenities; and at least one safe and accessible intersection.

• Inclusion attributes: curb cuts, accessible surfacing of trails, rubberized surfacing in playgrounds, accessible entrances, accessible transportation shelters

Preparing for the I2WALK

3. Site design: Comfortable and enjoyable places

1. Land Use:

Mix of destinations

2. Network of Facilities: Ped, bike, & transit network

4. Safety & Access: Features that reduce injuries and fatalities

www.activelivingresearch.org

• I2 Team collaborates on descriptions of four elements of active design for route targets.

Preparing/conducting the I2WALK • Revise workshop presentation template to include

relevant information and resources

• Plan evaluation (Who will change what, when, and how? With what help?)

• Delegate team roles, preferably during an in-person planning meeting

• Send participants invitation and agenda with route

• Sign in participants and offer photo release forms

• Conduct workshop

• Follow up with participants using evaluation results

Participant reports • Valued: I2 Team leads who use wheelchairs and

who are blind bring different experiences and solutions into the experience

• Committed to: • More I2WALK events with community partners • Accessible meetings and communications • Educating colleagues, friends, and families on what they

learned about accessibility and inclusion • Inclusive built environment improvements to improve

public health • Strengthening policy to assure accessible and inclusive

outcomes

Directions with landmarks and

location of street crossings:

Start at Montana Independent Living Project

(825 Great Northern Boulevard, Helena, MT

59601).

Head north on Great Northern Boulevard

toward West 14th Street and continue on route

for about 108 feet.

Turn right onto West 14th Street and continue

on route for about 299 feet.

Turn right onto Front Street and continue for

0.2 miles. Please note this route may narrow

and include obstructions along the route.

Turn right onto Neill Avenue and the Federal

Reserve Bank will be on the right.

Contact Information

Meg Ann Traci, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor

The Montana Disability and Health Program

The Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities

University of Montana

52 Corbin Hall

Missoula, MT 59812-7056

(406) 243-4956 Meg's Office

www.ruralinstitute.umt.edu

e-mail: [email protected]

Montana Disability and Health Program website is available at:

http://mtdh.ruralinstitute.umt.edu/

BACI Disability Resources and Information is available at: http://www.umt.edu/sell/cps/baci/Disabilities%20Resources%20.php

http://www.ruralinstitute.umt.edu/


http://mtdh.ruralinstitute.umt.edu/

http://www.umt.edu/sell/cps/baci/Disabilities Resources .php

http://www.umt.edu/sell/cps/baci/Disabilities Resources .php

Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center

pedbikeinfo.org @pedbikeinfo

Safety and Mobility for Everyone in the Age of Automation

Laura Sandt and Michael Clamann

UNC Highway Safety Research Center


Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety

9/4/18



Billions invested in AV tech



The Promise of Automation

•Safety •Personal mobility •Time productivity •Energy use/fuel consumption

•Roadway capacity and land use efficiencies

•Industry profit Source: USDOT.



Prior coverage of pedestrian issues is sparse

Source: Cavoli, C. et al., 2017. Social and behavioural questions associated with Automated Vehicles. A Literature

Review, London: Department for Transport.



Critical Transportation Needs

•To be able to walk/roll and be active

•To be socially connected and supported

Photos from: www.pedbikeimages.org/Dan Burden



PBIC Discussion Guide



Testing and Validation • Public roads with professional backup drivers

• e.g., Waymo: 8 million miles of testing to date

• Closed tracks • e.g., Mcity

• Structured testing on public roads

• e.g., Volvo DriveMe

• Customer testing • e.g., Tesla

• Simulation

Compare to 3 trillion miles driven annually



AV Sensor Technology • Camera

• Most cost-effective • Detects texture and color • (e.g., signs, lane markings, lights) • Con: very data intensive

• Lidar • Detects shapes • (e.g., cars, pedestrians, curbs, small obstacles) • Con: Not effective in many conditions

• Radar • Detects position and speed • (e.g., cars, large obstacles) • Con: Low resolution

• Ultrasound • High resolution, inexpensive • (e.g., objects at low speed) • Con: Very short range



What Computers “See”



Dividing Responsibilities

•Design for teamwork/cooperation

•Support, don’t replace, the driver

People:

high level goals, patterns,

the unexpected

Automation: repetition, accuracy, precision



How do we ensure safe mobility for everyone in the future?

Photos from: www.pedbikeimages.org/ Dan Burden and Laura Sandt



“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.”

-Paul Batalden,

Institute for Healthcare Improvement




•Recognize the limits of technology and invest in complementary solutions: • Walkable, bikeable environments with supportive

land uses and universal design • Place-making and social inclusion • Transit and paratransit services



Example: Smart City PDX




•Define and test the appropriate role for AVs and new technologies in these spaces/systems • Early partnerships in the

design stage of research to consider display design, accessibility, and availability of tech to key stakeholders

First Transit shared autonomous vehicle used in pilot with the Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority (LAVTA) and other transit agencies in the US. Source: metro-magazine.com.



Thank you!

Laura Sandt

919-962-2358 [email protected]

Michael Clamann

919-962-0045 [email protected]



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