Name: Measuring the "age-friendliness" of a community: Evaluation of audit guides for supporting engineering decision-making
Start: 2025-05-26T11:10:00-0400
End: 2025-05-26T11:30:00-0400

Welcome to CTRF’s 60th Annual Conference! Enjoy Ottawa

Monday May 26, 2025 11:10am - 11:30am EDT

Desmarais 1140

"Age-friendly Communities" is an initiative led by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) to support healthy aging in communities through the provision of a built environment (including active transportation) and programming that helps foster the inclusion of older adults in society. Communities can have age-friendly infrastructure development goals but may lack metrics to establish benchmarks and monitor progress. There are audit guides to assist with this evaluation, but the utility and uptake of these guides in engineering practice is unclear. This research piloted multiple guides, including some PHAC-recommended, on 62 selected road segments in Fredericton, NB.
While the audit tools permitted a consistent method of compiling information, there were limitations, including: extensive data collection requirements (e.g. one had 165 built environment measures per segment), overly subjective attributes to measure, inconsistent scoring schemes, lack of a total score of "age-friendliness", lack of weighting on the importance of relevant attributes, inability to evaluate at a network level, and reliance on foot-based audits (completed virtually where possible). A GIS-based analysis approach was piloted by identifying attributes from an audit tool most likely to be available from city open data sources and using this to propose an approach for city-wide age-friendly community evaluation.

Speakers

Trevor Hanson

Professor, University of New Brunswick

I am the President of CTRF for 2024-2025 and I teach transportation engineering and planning at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.

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Monday May 26, 2025 11:10am - 11:30am EDT
Desmarais 1140 55 Laurier Ave E, Ottawa ON K1N 6N5

Enabling fair & ethical transportation

Trevor Hanson

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