TRACS (Transportation Resilience, Accessibility & Climate Sustainability) was created by a partnership between the World Institute on Disability and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) as a research and community engagement project. We’ve completed this two-and-half year project and now are pleased to present our findings and resources.

Our overall goal has been to stimulate connection and communication between the community of seniors & people with disabilities together with the transportation system– the agencies in the region local to the San Francisco bay, served by MTC. We hope for these communities to work together for optimal mobility and enjoyable use by users of the existing services, as well as to improve the accessibility of these services. Our slogan is “Ensuring Access is Everyone’s Responsibility.”

Improving these systems will require action and engagement. There are no “watch-dog” systems for accessibility even those proscribed by law. This is true for all disability rights policies and regulations. People in the community must connect and communicate their needs and expectations to services agencies and the officials responsible for them. There are many ways to do this, which we offer here.

TRACS began our process with investigating and documenting the state of accessibility of our local transportation systems. We created an active ten-member Policy Advisory Group, then moved forward with conducting interviews, focus groups, surveys and workshops, to offer information and invite input from all our stakeholder communities.

Our results are presented in the many documents on this site. We offer reports on our findings, and a multiplicity of resources and tools for use in a wide range of ways. All of these documents are downloadable. We strongly encourage wide sharing of the contents of this site.