TRB will conduct a webinar on Wednesday, December 13, 2017, from 2:00PM to 3:30PM ET that features research from the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP)’s Research Report 175: Improving Intelligibility of Airport Terminal Public Address Systems and Research Report 177: Enhancing Wayfinding for Aging Travelers and Persons with Disabilities.

This webinar will discuss the research that may help aging travelers and persons with disabilities travel independently. The webinar will also describe ways to improve public address system performance.

This webinar is sponsored by the Airport Cooperative Research Program. There is no fee to attend this webinar; however, sign into MyTRB.org to view registration information.

Webinar Presenters

• Jim Harding, Gresham, Smith and Partners
• Laurel Van Horn, Open Doors Organization
• Richard Carman, Wilson Ihrig
• Joel Lewitz, Joel Lewitz

Moderated by:  Steve Wareham, Trillion Aviation

 Webinar Outline ​

1. ACRP Research Report 175: Improving Intelligibility of Airport Terminal Public-Address Systems
   • Key guidance to use for design and implementation
   • Underlying concepts that relate to speech intelligibility
   • Case study/example
2. ACRP Research Report 177: Enhancing Wayfinding for Aging Travelers and Persons with Disabilities
   • Report objectives
   • Examples of recommendations and practices
   • Review of the Wayfinding Accessibility Audit Checklist
3. Question and answer session

The first 60 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this webinar, participants will able to:

• Identify how practices and recommendations for assisting aging travelers and persons with disabilities are based on the principles of universal design
• Describe the wayfinding accessibility audit checklist
• Understand the guidelines for developers of mobile apps for aging travelers and persons with disabilities
• Understand how to provide practical and actionable information that airports and their consultants can use in designing, procuring, installing and operating, training, and maintaining PA systems

Registration Information

This webinar is sponsored by the Airport Cooperative Research Program. There is no fee to attend this webinar.

Continuing Education Units for Accredited Airport Executives

The American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) is making 1.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) available for A.A.E. If you are an A.A.E. and would like to apply for CEUs for this webinar, visit www.aaae.org/ceu. For questions about A.A.E. continuing education units, please contact accreditation@aaae.org.

American Institute of Certified Planners Certification Maintenance Credits

This webinar is approved by the American Institute of Certified Planners for 1.5 Certification Maintenance Credits.  Please make sure that you register for this session and log-in using the link that TRB provides to your email account. We use this as your record that you attended this session. TRB only maintains the records of attendees who use their email address to log into the webinar, and cannot verify attendance of individuals who view the webinar without personally logging into the session.

Please visit the Certification Maintenance section of APA’s website, Certification Maintenance webpage at https://www.planning.org/cm to claim your credits. You may use the following steps:

1. Log in using your ID# and password.
2. Select View my CM log.
3. Select Add CM-Registered Credits.
4. Using the CM Search option, type in the name of the event or event number (e.g. 21064) and click "Go".

Please note: If searching for an event by Provider, use the search option, type in the name of the provider and click “Go”. From the results below, select by clicking on the name of the provider.

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6. Please rate the event, add a comment (optional), and click on the Ethics statement and check the box to confirm. Note: you should see a message indicating the CM reporting period year that you are logging.
7. Click submit and the CM credits should appear in your CM log.

If you have problems reporting your CM credits or have general questions about the CM program, please contact AICPCM@planning.org.

Registration questions? Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu.