Implementing accessibility in municipal planning: planners’ view

Reinforcement Planning: Planners as Policies

Introduction. State-of-the-art robotic systems [1, 2, 3] increasingly rely on search-based planning or optimal control methods to guide decision making. Similar observations can be made about computer game engines. Such methods are nearly always extremely crude approximations to the reality encountered by the robot: they consider a simplified model of the robot (as a point, or a “flying brick”)...

Intelligent Planning Meets Intelligent Planners

Municipal Open Space Planning

within a 15-minute drive, one can travel from historic urban neighborhoods to productive working farms. Open space and natural features enhance all of our communities, from rural to urban. The need to plan for open space preservation is on-going. With the improving economy and accompanying development pressures, the need to plan to preserve open space is stronger than ever. This newsletter will...

Towards accessibility planning

Over the last decades our global society has been highly influenced by automobility planning. Growing mobility has been seen as an indication of a well-functioning transport system and a society with increasing welfare. Excessive mobility can at the same time lead to urban sprawl, longer travel distances and travel times as well as other problems that can be associated with lower welfare. A pla...

Website accessibility: An Australian view

For nearly 20 years Australian and international legal requirements have existed around the development of accessible websites. This paper briefly reviews the history of legislation against web disability discrimination, along with the current legal requirements for website development as indicated by current international accessibility specifications, and reports on a manual examination of the...