Disability, mode perceptions, and travel behavior: An intersectional study

Despite the more than three decades since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), people with disabilities, which comprise roughly one quarter of the US population, still face considerable challenges to their mobility and access. They make fewer trips and are more dependent on others because of deficiencies in pedestrian infrastructure, transit and for-hire vehicles, and specialized paratransit services. While there is a considerable amount of research that identifies the breadth of mobility challenges and access barriers, limited research has address how these mobility challenges influence mode choice for people with disabilities. This project will develop and administer a web-based survey to an oversample of California residents with disabilities to understand how disability influences mode choice, accounting for perceptions of the built environment and mode-specific challenges. The project further seeks to understand how intersectional disadvantage moderates mode choice decisions. The research team anticipates using several analytical methods to answer the research questions, including descriptive statistics, basic statistical tests of comparison, and multinomial logistic regression. The research team aims to engage with disability serving organizations to ensure that the survey reflects real concerns and will provide meaningful data, and to share results in support of universal access goals that the organizations and public agencies are pursuing.

• Record URL:
  https://metrans.org/research/disability-mode-perceptions-and-travel-behavior-an-intersectional-study

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Programmed
• Funding: $99998
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3552348309

  65A0674

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  METRANS Transportation Consortium

  University of Southern California
  Los Angeles, CA  United States 
• Project Managers:

  Hong, Jennifer

  Bruner, Britain

• Principal Investigators:

  Barajas, Jesus

• Start Date: 20250101
• Expected Completion Date: 20260630
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Built environment; Mobility; Mode choice; Persons with disabilities; Surveys; Travel behavior
• Geographic Terms: California
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01928234
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center
• Contract Numbers: 69A3552348309, 65A0674
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Aug 22 2024 6:32PM