MAP: • Mobility, Access and Participation projects for disabled Canadians • Mobilité, Accès et Participation pour les Canadiens ayant des incapacités
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ALT Man in blue-grey sweatshirt using power wheelchair and woman in grey hoodie using a walking stick, as they cross the road on a sunny day. Photo by @maxwbender via Unsplash.
ALT Blue and red emergency lights. Text reads: “Public Review – Draft Standard on Emergency Measures.”
ALT An unregulated bike littered with fallen leaves crossing through a pedestrian cross walk connecting the sidewalk to a pedestrian landing. The push button to cross the road is located on the pedestrian landing. Text titled "Feature of the Street: Bike Lanes" located below the bike lane image. The Simon Fraser University is located on the bottom left and the SWAN Project logo is located on the bottom right.
ALT Text refers to features of inaccessible bike lanes. These include a lack of adequate lighting, a lack of auditory cues, too narrow bike lanes, physical obstacles, a lack of speed guidelines, and reduced road space for folks who use cars.
ALT The top right corner displays the Disability Pride Month flag with a black background and red, yellow, white, blue, and green stripes on top of each other. The blue text reads, "July is Disability Pride Month! Disability Pride celebrates each person's uniqueness, seeing it as a natural and beautiful part of human diversity."
ALT Our new Special Issue "Mobility, Access, and Participation" in the journal Disabilities is now open for submission, welcome to contribute!
ALT Niloofar Hedayati is a Graduate Research Assistant for the MAP Project Stream 1 (SFU Stream): Navigation and Pedestrian Environment Accessibility. She has a master's degree in Architecture and is currently a master's student in the Department of Gerontology at Simon Fraser University.
ALT Niloofar's research interest lies in the intersection of environmental psychology, well-being, and older adults. Due to her educational and professional background in architecture, she worked for years on several environmental design projects focusing on different social groups, including children, older adults, and people with disabilities. Moreover, alongside her studies, she worked on a municipality's urban project to identify older residents' needs and recommend necessary neighbourhood changes to help people live healthier. All these experiences led her to choose gerontology as a field of focus. She is now concentrating her research on built-environment features that influence social interaction and mobility in culturally diverse older adults.
ALT Niloofar is involved as the coordinator and graduate research assistant in the SWAN project. Her responsibilities include but are not limited to coordination, tool development, data collection through walking interviews, and qualitative data analysis.
ALT In this street scene of downtown Vancouver, a person on the right side of the image stands on the sidewalk under a bus shelter reading their phone. There is a cycle lane to the left of the bus shelter and a person is using a red and black mobility scooter to travel away from the viewer. To their left a person using a bicycle is traveling towards the view. A sidewalk is to the bike path's left. at the left edge of this second sidewalk, a city bus is stopped with the doors open to accept passengers. A pedestrian walkway with white lines goes from one sidewalk to the other to facilitate pedestrian travel across the cycle lane to reach the bus from the bus shelter.