Speaking

Walk in My Shoes is an interactive, experiential session that challenges transportation professionals to see the built environment through the lens of people with disabilities. Building on CAPSITE’s partnership with the Mid-Atlantic ADA Center and Centers for Independent Living, participants will engage directly with individuals whose lived experiences reveal real-world barriers that go beyond design standards. Through a guided walking audit and immersive activities using personas and sensory tools, attendees will explore accessibility challenges across transit, crossings, micromobility, and public spaces. The session concludes with a facilitated discussion to translate these insights into practical design, policy, and operational improvements that create more inclusive and effective transportation systems.

Attendees will learn how individuals with disabilities experience and navigate the built environment beyond standard design guidance. They will also experience how immersive walking audits and personas reveal accessibility challenges and design gaps while understanding how to apply insights from lived experiences to improve ADA compliance, design decisions and project outcomes. 

The Roundabout Forum brings together practitioners, agencies, and researchers to showcase innovative roundabout projects, ranging from urban compact designs and rural high-speed conversions to multimodal corridors and complex multilane implementations. This session will highlight successes, challenges, and lessons learned from real-world case studies. Presenters will share before-and-after safety and operational performance, design refinements, public outreach strategies and construction phasing approaches unique to the region. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how agencies are using roundabouts to address safety, efficiency and corridor transformation across diverse contexts.

B&N's Amy Rosepiler will present "A Study of Intersections: Clark County Roundabout Study," during this forum.