Washington, D.C. – July 31, 2023. The Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA), along with its partners at the UMass Boston Institute for Community Inclusion, USAging, and DJB Consulting, was awarded the Accessible Transportation Resource Center (ATRC); a grant award …
The second in TP4A’s Project Spotlight Series, this article discusses Mountain Line’s Mobility on Demand project in Flagstaff, Arizona. Through an inclusive planning process, Mountain Line piloted a microtransit project in an area of Flagstaff with over 10 health & …
Read the first in TP4A’s Project Spotlight Series, where we provide an in-depth look at some of our past grantee projects. This series highlights challenges, successes, and lessons learned in inclusive planning from TP4A grantees. The first article in the …
This guide has the instructions to set up accessible events and conferences. Accessible means people can fully participate in conferences. Accessible event planning includes four steps. These four steps are universal design, physical accessibility, sensory accessibility, …
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to both public and private ground transportation providers. The ADA rules that apply to transportation are regulated by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Use this resource to identify best practices that meet the …
The Center for Pan Asian Community Services (CPACS) microtransit project focused on providing a new service in the City of Clarkston, Georgia. This microtransit service used a multilingual rider-facing app (Burmese, Chinese, Korean, Nepali, Spanish Farsi, Swahili, and Vietnamese) to …
MountainLine’s Microtransit project utilized on-demand microtransit technology to coordinate paratransit service and connect people to the broader transit system in Flagstaff, Arizona. The project designed an inclusive engagement process that empowered a group of steering committee members to plan, design …
Originally posted by Great Lakes ADA Center
This presentation will cover resources available to election officials to evaluate the accessibility of polling locations, specifically the ADA Checklist for Polling Places developed by the U.S. Dept. of Justice in 2016. The …
Montgomery County has launched an online tool to connect older adult residents to volunteer ride providers, officials announced last week.
The tool uses GIS mapping to connect a resident’s address with nonprofits, senior villages and other groups that provide volunteer …
Since April 2020, the National Park Service’s (NPS) decision to close Rock Creek Park’s Beach Drive to vehicular …
Several cities, including Los Angeles, Oakland, California, and Portland, Oregon, have recently launched universal basic mobility programs that provide low-income residents with money that they can to use on public and last-mile transportation.
In Pittsburgh, city officials aim to address …
Lyft officials said the company is exempt from the Americans with Disabilities Act and doesn’t have to cater to people with nonfolding wheelchairs.
In 2018, Ansel Lurio found himself trapped in a snowstorm after leaving a dentist appointment in Westchester …
