Empowering Safety
Pedestrian Accessibility Services for Transportation Projects
I bring the perspective of someone who navigates these environments daily, where design decisions can become movement, hesitation, or uncertainty in real time. Most engagements begin with an initial consultation. These are good opportunities:
- Early design and plan review
- APS, LPI, TWSI, and pedestrian pushbutton questions
- Complex crossings, roundabouts, transit facilities, and multimodal environments
- Staff training and project-specific technical questions
Pedestrian Accessibility Consultation
Accessibility is a shared outcome across planning, design, review, procurement, construction, and installation. As projects move from standards to the finished environment, important details may be interpreted differently or changed.
I help teams preserve the intent of pedestrian accessibility requirements by connecting the standards to the research behind them and to how people who navigate nonvisually interact with the finished environment.
Common focus areas
- Accessible Pedestrian Signals and pedestrian pushbutton placement
- Crossings, curb ramps, pedestrian access routes, and decision points
- Tactile walking surface indicators and directional information
- Transit stops, boarding islands, platforms, and pedestrian connections
- Roundabouts, shared-use facilities, wayfinding, and complex multimodal environments
Focused consultations start at $250.
APS and Intersection Accessibility Second Opinion
When a project team has a focused pedestrian accessibility question, an additional specialist perspective can help clarify what the design or installation needs to accomplish.
APS placement, curb ramps, detectable warnings, pedestrian routing, unusual geometry, bicycle and transit interfaces, and signal operation must work together as a coherent source of information. I help teams understand how people who navigate nonvisually interact with the finished environment, why particular accessibility details matter, and how standards and research support those details.
Good questions for a second opinion
- Will the APS location and tactile arrow clearly identify the crossing it controls?
- Do the curb ramp, crosswalk, detectable warning, and pedestrian signal work together?
- Could unusual geometry, a bicycle facility, or a transit interface create ambiguity?
- What should the project team verify before the design or installation advances?
Targeted virtual consultations start at $350. Detailed intersection reviews start at $500 and include a written Accessibility Perspective Memorandum. On-site consultation is available at $1,000 per day plus approved travel expenses.
Professional Development Lunch and Learn
Bring a standards-grounded blind-pedestrian perspective to your next staff training, lunch and learn, webinar, or professional meeting.
Seeing the Intersection Differently explains how people navigating nonvisually identify and use intersection information, then connects that process to APS placement and operation, curb ramps, detectable warning surfaces (DWS), crosswalk geometry, signal timing, bicycle and transit interfaces, and field installation. The session helps transportation professionals understand what particular accessibility requirements say, why they are written that way, and how the research supports them.
Formats and fees
- 60-minute live session: $500
- 90-minute expanded session: $750
- Half-day technical workshop: starting at $1,750
- In-person delivery preferred; live virtual delivery available
- PDH documentation available for participant self-reporting where accepted
College and University Programs
Guest lectures and campus programs connect standards, research, orientation and mobility, and firsthand nonvisual navigation with the decisions students and professionals will make in their own fields.
Programs are tailored for engineering and planning courses, orientation and mobility programs, disability studies, campus-wide audiences, and faculty or staff development. The emphasis is practical: how people interact with the environments and systems being designed, why accessibility requirements function as they do, and how better questions early can prevent avoidable problems later.
Program options
- Seeing the Intersection Differently
- One Banana Peel Away: Designing a World That Works When Life Changes
- The Next Usable Cue: Five Principles for Moving Forward When the Route Changes
Formats and fees
- 60-to-90-minute programs starting at $750
- Bundled campus visits and custom programs quoted by scope
- In-person delivery preferred; live virtual delivery available
Conference Presentations and Guest Lecturing
Presentations and guest lectures bring a nonvisual perspective to pedestrian infrastructure, showing how design and standards are experienced in on-the-street navigation.
Sessions are tailored for transportation professionals, university audiences, and multidisciplinary teams working in accessibility, planning, design, and engineering.
- Transportation conferences, agencies, and professional organizations
- University guest lectures in civil engineering, urban and landscape design, and orientation and mobility
- Topics connecting standards, research, design, and nonvisual navigation
Signature presentations
Seeing the Intersection Differently: A Look From Behind the White Cane
A foundational session on how blind pedestrians interpret intersections, signals, and environmental cues.
How Vision Zero Can Put Zero Vision Pedestrians at Risk
Explores unintended consequences of pedestrian safety strategies within the framework of nonvisual navigation.