The whole of inclusive planning is made up of many parts – small practices that often have an outsized impact on fostering inclusivity and engagement. Even something like a simple introduction can influence the course of a meeting.
Amy Dewitt-Smith, …
The Ohio State University’s Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA) and the Kirwan Institute hosted a webinar on inclusive planning for transportation projects on December 1, 2023. Veronica O. Davis, a civil engineer and director of transportation and drainage …
On August 31, 2023, Transit Planning 4 All held a virtual roundtable where project managers from three past TP4A projects discussed challenges and successes in forming their steering committees. This brief draws on the knowledge of these three project managers …
Date: August 31, 2023
How do you form a successful steering committee? This 1-hour roundtable explored inclusive strategies and lessons learned for developing steering committees that increase trust, strengthen communication and ultimately, improve coordinated transportation services for older adults and
For the last decade, Scott Kratz has been working to build a new kind …
Montgomery County, MD’s Planning Department has begun to document “desire paths” for designing and implementing accessible pedestrian. A key part of the project is gathering community input on locations of current “desire paths” for use in creating new pedestrian access.…
By: DeBrittany Mitchell, MA | Institute for Community Inclusion
Transit Planning 4 All highlights best practices for the inclusion and active involvement of older adults and people with disabilities in transit planning efforts nationwide. Effective and accessible marketing and outreach
Episode 5 of the Transit Planning 4 All Podcast Series features John Egelhaaf, Executive Director at the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission and a certified planner with the American Institute of Certified Planners. The Commission co-sponsors workshops and is a participant …
The Transit Planning 4 All project hosted a special webinar on Tuesday, June 8 at 4pm EDT, focused on rural on-demand and demand responsive transit solutions. The webinar featured Valerie Lefler of Feonix-Mobility Rising and Kevin Chambers of Full Path …
Episode 4 of the Transit Planning 4 All Podcast Series features guest speaker Angel Bond, a program manager for Mobility for All in Boulder County, Colorado. The mission of the program is to promote affordable multimodal transportation options and to …
This Demonstration session was presented at the 2020 annual conference of the American Evaluation Association. It presents lessons learned about inclusive planning involving people with disabilities, older adults, and caregivers. A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration …
Inclusive Civic Engagement Infographic
Transit Planning 4 All Project partner, the Institute for Community Inclusion, has created a series of briefs on inclusive civic engagement strategies for transit planners and community advocates.
Each brief focuses on avenues to best include …
The “Strategies for Promoting Civic Engagement in Inclusive Transportation Planning” series presents key tips for enhancing inclusion through civic engagement strategies.
This brief explores online platforms and online community engagement strategies to best enable people with disabilities and older adults …
The “Strategies for Promoting Civic Engagement in Inclusive Transportation Planning” series presents key tips for enhancing inclusion through civic engagement strategies.
This tip-sheet explores the key guiding principles for civic engagement transit planning that can be applied in various …
A short list of features that, although they do not rise to the level of ADA-violations, can discourage people from attending meetings. The list encourages thinking about the details of planning an inclusive meeting and includes a checklist for seeking …
The Pathway to Inclusion is a graphic tool that organizations can use to distinguish between the types of active and meaningful inclusive activities in their programs and their communities. Through inclusive discussions with program participants (see Definitions), partners, …
The “Strategies for Promoting Civic Engagement in Inclusive Transportation Planning” series presents key tips for enhancing inclusion through civic engagement strategies.
This brief explores community mapping, a tool for identifying various assets and resources within a specific geographical area through …
The project identified strengths, weaknesses, linkages, and improvements using a project advisory committee of community members who were older adults or people with disabilities and DC agency partners. The project produced a website, a survey in English and Spanish, open …
This document, created in 2017, documents how SWMPC chooses the most effective strategies for engaging the public. This plan lays out steps to evaluate projects and their impacts so SWMPC can match the project with the best participation strategies. The …
Learn from three initiatives – two in Massachusetts and one in Maine – that are working to increase the role that older adults and people with disabilities play in planning and implementing community transportation services. Two TP4A grantees were featured …
The meeting is being held by the Winston-Salem Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, a federally designated agency that works on transportation planning in an area that takes in Forsyth County and nearby parts of Stokes, Davidson and Davie counties.
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Employing an advisory group of residents who were older adults and people with disabilities, the project sought to create a path to embedding inclusive, participatory elements in transportation planning and to find strategies for surmounting transportation obstacles for these populations. …
Project staff and consultants worked closely with stakeholders, a diverse group of people with disabilities and seniors to review the transportation system, help identify gaps and participate in other engagement strategies; conducted community surveys to identify mobility needs and attitudes; …
The PEAC project resulted in a significant increase in participation of older adults and people with disabilities on advisory committees and at public meetings. Advocates identified areas where their participation is needed, including bikeshare planning, testing of autonomous vehicles, and …
The project began with surveys and the creation of an advisory panel, which emerged as a voice for older adults and people with disabilities in the community and which committed itself to ensuring inclusivity in all of the county’s transportation …
This particular section of the Community Tool Box, a global resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities, teaches how to use an approach that allows everyone who has a stake in the intervention to have a …
As part of the 2018-2019 Transit Planning 4 All Grantee Cohort, Hopelink (King County, WA) created an Inclusive Planning Toolkit, a compilation of lessons learned from Hopelink and the King County Mobility Coalition’s participation in the grant. It includes tips …
As part of the 2018-2019 Transit Planning 4 All Grantee Cohort, Portland Area Comprehensive Transit System (PACTS) created an Inclusive Planning Toolkit for use organization-wide. The toolkit, attached as an appendix with their long-term transportation plan, will be provided to …
The project was used to identify mobility improvements, to increase the inclusiveness and the input of older adults and people with disabilities into the planning process, to revise a brochure with paratransit information, to increase funding for a taxi program, …
This guide provides an overview of strategies for outreach and engagement with individuals for whom their First Language is Not English (FLNE), and those from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. It lists strategies to contact, inform, and recruit target populations, …
Over the course of two years, seven teams of organizations, who work with and serve older adults and people with disabilities, made extensive changes to their structures to better include their consumers in the realm of transportation planning.
Recently, the …
Montgomery County, MD’s Planning Department has begun to document “desire paths” for designing and implementing accessible pedestrian. A key part of the project is gathering community input on locations of current “desire paths” for use in creating new pedestrian access.…
By Charles Dickson
The recent crises surrounding COVID-19 has upended business as usual across the board. Especially challenged has been the process of public engagement. As transit agencies have operated in emergency mode, there has been little time for the …
The Transit Planning 4 All Podcast Series examines what we know about today’s most urgent inclusive transit planning challenges and how we can make progress in addressing them. In a series of conversations, transportation planners and advocates share lessons learned …
