Compliance analysis of pedestrian facilities with accessibility requirements

State and local governments are required by law to provide and maintain accessibility on their pedestrian facilities. They need to conduct, document, and update self-evaluations to identify non-compliant pedestrian facilities. This paper presents the development of a novel model for analyzing the compliance of pedestrian facilities with accessibility requirements. The model provides original and unique capabilities that enable decision-makers to: (i) quantify the degree of non-compliance of all types of pedestrian facilities including transit stops, on-street parking, and passenger loading zones; (ii) estimate cost and labour-hours needed to achieve compliance; (iii) prioritize upgrade projects for pedestrian facility types; (iv) rank pedestrian facilities upgrade projects in multiple geographical regions based on their collective degree of non-compliance; and (v) classify pedestrian facilities based on the type of required upgrade. A case study that includes 1327 pedestrian facilities is analyzed to evaluate the performance of the developed model and illustrate its capabilities.