Communication
- Lessons Learned: Communicating Effectively with People with Disabilities and Older Adults. This brief explores how agencies can ensure effective communication for outreach and input from the community, informing and engaging partners, communication within inclusive planning Steering Committees, and addressing cross-cultural issues.
- Roundtable: Lessons Learned on Communication for Inclusive Transit Planning.
Partnerships
- Lessons Learned: Partnering with People with Disabilities & Older Adults. This brief explores how agencies can apply innovative strategies to develop diverse partnerships that increase trust, strengthen communication and ultimately improve coordinated transportation services for older adults and adults with disabilities.
- Roundtable: Lessons Learned on Partnerships for Inclusive Transit Planning.
Engagement
- Roundtable: Lessons Learned on Engagement Strategies for Inclusive Transportation Planning. Topics include how to engage older adults and people with disabilities in the planning process, ensuring their roles within the process are effective, how to provide effective supports for those involved in planning, and creating an overall culture of diverse engagement.
- Roundtable: Steering Committees for Inclusive Transit Planning. How do you form a successful steering committee? This 1-hour roundtable explored inclusive strategies and lessons learned for developing steering committees.
- Steering Towards Inclusion: Lessons Learned on Steering Committees for Inclusive Transit Planning. This brief draws on the knowledge of three TP4A project managers to explore inclusive strategies and lessons learned for developing steering committees that increase trust, strengthen communication and ultimately, improve coordinated transportation services for older adults and people with disabilities.
Transit Planning 4 All Podcast Series
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 in their journey towards inclusive transportation planning. Inclusive processes for transportation planning actively involve older adults and people with disabilities and leads to the development of community and public transportation programs that effectively meet the needs of the people for whom they are designed to serve.
Episode 1 – Adam Thielker. Episode 1 of the Transit Planning 4 All Podcast Series features guest speaker Adam Thielker, a public transportation activist. As a daily rider and advocate for public transport, Adam shares his experiences, challenges, successes, and lessons learned in navigating the maze of effective transportation advocacy and planning. Listen as he discusses the importance of understanding local and regional transportation systems, the role of networking and coalition building with other groups, connecting transit goals such as improving convenience of public transit with other issues such as the environment, health, and road congestion, lobbying for transit funding with elected officials, and effectively advocating for and including the voices of riders in transportation planning efforts.
Episode 2 – Julie Wilcke. Episode 2 of the Transit Planning 4 All Podcast Series features guest speaker Julie Wilcke, the Executive Director of Ride Connection. Listen as she describes the successes and challenges of collaboratively creating their dialysis transportation service, aimed at keeping people healthy with access to care through high quality, customer focused transportation.
Episode 3 – Lynn Norris. Episode 3 of the Transit Planning 4 All Podcast Series features guest speaker Lynn Norris, a steering committee member at Worcester Community Connections, one of 22 coalitions that provide family support services including access to reliable transportation. Listen as Lynn shares her story of responding to the threat of budget cuts to already limited funding for transportation and her work building connections and coalitions to advocate for transportation funding and services.
Episode 4 – Angel Bond. 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 raise awareness that transportation is a basic social and economic need. Listen as Angel shares her story of empowering Boulder County residents and working with individuals with disabilities and older adults to advocate and plan for inclusive transit options within their communities.
Episode 5 – John Egelhaaf. 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. Listen as John shares his story of working with others to advocate for a redesign a major transportation corridor in Michigan and improve the inclusivity of transportation services in his community.