PROUD TO SPEAK ABOUT UNIVERSAL DESIGN AND INCLUSIVE MOBILITY

IN FRONT OF THE NATION’S TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY THOUGHT LEADERS AT THE 2025 JOINT ITE INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL MEETING

I was gratified to speak to the transportation, transit and mobility industry’s leaders – from the private, public, nonprofit and academic sectors – at the ITE International meeting this week in Orlando.

I spoke on: Creating Accessible, Healthy, and Smart Multimodal Communities Through Transportation.

I underscored design fails that make sidewalks, curbramps and crosswalks dangerous or impossible to use by people who use assistive mobility devices.

At the end of my presentation to a full ballroom, I implored those in attendance to get at the root of disability inclusion.

I challenged the nation’s leading mobility designers, builders and regulators to aggressively recruit, hire and retain people with various disabilities.

Without those personal insights, the most brilliant engineers and planners in the world are doomed to creating barriers that strip people with disabilities of independence, dignity and safety.

GRATIFIED TO BE A KEY SPEAKER AT THE 2025 JOINT ITE INTERNATIONAL

AND FLORIDA PUERTO RICO DISTRICT ANNUAL MEETING AND EXHIBITION

I am honored to bring my passionate speaking about the value of Universal Design and Inclusive Mobility to the International ITE meeting.

I will be joined by my friend and colleague David Haight and a host of other mobility planning industry giants.

Our topic: Creating Accessible, Healthy, and Smart Multimodal Communities Through Transportation

I proudly speak globally about a better built environment for people with disabilities.

THIS BLOG HAS HAD MORE THAN 800,000 UNIQUE VISITS

SINCE IT WAS LAUNCHED MORE THAN A DECADE AGO

The vast majority of my posts have to do with Universal Design and creating a better built environment for people with disabilities.

Posts have touched on planning, urban design, transportation engineering, landscape architecture, economic development, sustainability and related issues.

I have tackled public policy and held politicians’ feet to the fire.

I have shared more than 4,000 images that I have taken on work on five continents.

The cumulative word count of my posts would fill 11 300-page books.

Here's to more travel photos, human-centered advocacy and plain language interpretation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and more.

THE INS AND OUTS OF GOOD URBAN DESIGN

UNIVERSAL DESIGN ON THE INCLUSIVE DESIGNERS PODCAST

Please check out my latest Universal Design presentation on the Inclusive Designers Podcast.

I appear with friend/colleague Meg O'Connell of Global Disability Inclusion.

I am your go-to subconsultant for all planning projects aimed at creating a better built environment for people with disabilities.

HINT: With the CDC documenting that 1 in 4 of us will experience some kind of disability that impacts our daily lives -- and the UN counting well more than 1 billion people with disabilities on the planet...EVERY project must include Universal Design.

https://inclusivedesigners.com/podcast/the-ins-and-outs-of-good-urban-design