APBP Designing Pedestrian Facilities for Accessibility course - SEATTLE

This training is being offered by the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP) in conjunction with the ProWalk/ProBike Conference. Plan to stay an additional day for this essential training.

The newly updated course includes both classroom and field work designed to increase your understanding of Public Right-of-Way Accessibility Guidelines (PROWAG) and FHWA ADA policies. Topics include legal policies, sidewalk design, crossings, intersections, curb ramps, construction, maintenance, pedestrian signals, and temporary traffic control. The DPFA course was developed collaboratively with the Federal Highway Administration and the U.S. Access Board.

Field Exercises include walking audits, wheelchair exercises to experience slopes, cross-slopes, and ramps, vision degraders to experience decision making issues about street crossing.

Classroom Interaction includes discussion of best practices for new design and retrofits.

The intended audience is practitioners who design or install transportation facilities in the public right of way. You’ll take home useful resource documents and a better understanding of successful accessible design.

Instructor: Michael Ronkin, Designing Streets for Pedestrians & Bicyclists, LLC (see bio below)

U.S. Access Board Instructor: Lois Thibault (see bio below)

Date: Saturday, September 6 Time: 8:30am-4:15pm

Location: Hosted by and held at SvR Design Company, 1205 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

Cost: $150 for APBP members, $200 for non-members

Credits: 7 credits of Continuing Education (for planners, engineers) are available.