Professional development training - walkability and universal access
Victoria Walks provides professional development training for planners and engineers in designing streets to make it safer and easier to walk around, including for people with disability.
The program is a collaboration between Victoria Walks and:
- Safe System Solutions, leading experts in Australian road safety and professional development for transport planners and engineers
- Amanda Lawrie-Jones, Founder of Accessible Action and a Finalist in the ‘Change Making’ category of the National Awards for Disability Leadership
- Bridget Doran, a New Zealand based transportation engineer, researcher and human factors psychologist with specialist expertise in transport equity.
In addition to Bridget and Amanda, Jo Eady and Duane Burtt from Victoria Walks will be course presenters.
This training will be run in person across a two-day intensive, enabling participants to apply their learning on the ground as part of on-street training in Melbourne.
Our first training course in Universal Access Audits, assessing streets and plans for walkability and Disability Discrimination Act compliance, ran in June 2025 and sold out 7 weeks ahead of the event.
The next training will run 30-31 October 2025 at the Sebel Melbourne in Kew.