Taking AAAIM: Involving Persons with Disabilities in Transportation Planning, Implementation, and Investments Presented by Sheila Holbrook-White Transportation Research Board 89 th Annual Meeting Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Aug 17, 2015
Taking AAAIM: Involving Persons with Disabilities in Transportation Planning, Implementation, and Investments
Presented by Sheila Holbrook-White Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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Taking AAAIM Presentation Overview AAAIM: Austin Accessibility Assessment IMprovement
n What prompted our PTPP proposal?
n Who we worked with?
n What we did and how it worked out?
n What are the take-aways for public participation?
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Taking AAAIM Genesis, Broader Applicability n Local: Capital Metro’s proposed paratransit service changes (2008)
n National: TCRP Legal Research Digest 24: Transit Bus Stops: Ownership,
Liability, and Access (March 2008)
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Taking AAAIM Partners
2007 Board Directive Increase Passenger Options Improve Customer Service Increase Regional Options
ADA Transition Plan City Sidewalk Master Plan Prioritize Improvement Increase Mobility Options
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Taking AAAIM 1. Identify the challenges n Objective:
n General: To understand customer service issues n Specific: To identify challenge sites Tools:
n Phone/VRS survey in English and Spanish to 10% of DFC customers
n Modified version of TCRP Report 46, Part 2 Survey
n Objective: n Sort and locate the challenge sites Tools:
n Use Google Maps to locate sites
n Prioritize sites using CapMetro Boarding Data
n Reference City’s Sidewalk Master Plan Ratings as a way to prioritize
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Taking AAAIM 2. Assess Sites, Recommend Improvements
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Assessment Teams Recommendations By Frequency
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Taking AAAIM 3. Collaborate: Connection to Planning, Service, and Investment
• Ensuring schedule/passenger information: 30 stops • Completing site evaluations: 22 stops • Policy discussions prompted: 2 • FY2010 Bus Stop Improvement Line Item: $1.5M
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Taking AAAIM 3. Collaborate: Accessible Community Connections
• Improvements completed: 1 • Recommended improvements in the funding queue: 2 • Recommended improvements scheduled for future completion: 13 • Recommended improvements in the City’s Draft Strategic Mobility Plan: 14
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Value participants, not “participation.”
Taking AAAIM Lessons Learned