Jim is a senior planner with Toole Design, a multimodal transportation planning and design firm. He led an FHWA project on making shared streets, separated bike lanes, roundabouts, and other innovative street designs more accessible to people with vision disabilities and is currently leading Toole Design’s work on a project to develop national guidance on how to make floating bus stops safe and accessible to pedestrians with disabilities. Jim has also worked with state and local agencies to update their accessibility guidance and pilot test innovative treatments. This experience includes leading a project to update the New Jersey Department of Transportation’s policies and guidelines to better address the needs of people with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual and developmental disabilities, a project to develop an accessible design guide for Montgomery County, MD, a pilot demonstration in downtown Silver Spring, MD to test an accessible floating bus stop design and accessible bus stop signage, and pilot demonstrations in five British Columbia municipalities to address a British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ruling on floating bus stop accessibility. Jim has led numerous trainings on inclusive planning and design, including a series of recent trainings on the adopted PROWAG. Jim has a vision disability that prevents him from driving.