SURVIVING WITHOUT DRIVING: POLICY OPTIONS FOR SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE SENIOR MOBILITY

This paper provides a practical approach to transportation planning for an aging population. The needs of older citizens are predictable, so accommodating them is possible. Policies and actions that encourage private investment, volunteerism, and advanced information technology are the keys to the successful design, development, and implementation of an effective and efficient transportation system that meets the needs and desires of the aging population in the United States. With modes set aside and transportation reduced to fundamental components, two primary elements emerge: resources and logistics. Resources are the economic means, in any form and from any source, to fund a transportation process. Logistics refers to the arrangement and connection between and among the events in a transportation process. Two primary forces--technology and policy--act on the two primary elements. The three kinds of technology are mechanical, energy, and information. Policy, of course, guides all the above. The action of the twin forces of technology and policy on the primary elements of resources and logistics, within the context of consumer choice, produces transportation. All transportation may be understood in terms of these two primary elements and two primary forces within this context. Change any one of these four components of the transportation framework, or change consumer choice through marketing, and some or all of the other primary elements and forces change responsively. In combination, they form a useful heuristic device, a conceptual framework with which to understand both advancements and barriers in transportation, historically and predictively.

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• Authors:
  • Freund, K
• Conference:
  • Transportation in an Aging Society: A Decade of Experience
  • Location: Bethesda Maryland, United States
  • Date: 1999-11-7 to 1999-11-9
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 114-121
• Monograph Title: TRANSPORTATION IN AN AGING SOCIETY: A DECADE OF EXPERIENCE. TECHNICAL PAPERS AND REPORTS FROM A CONFERENCE, NOVEMBER 7-9, 1999, BETHESDA, MARYLAND
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  • Transportation Research Board Conference Proceedings
  • Issue Number: 27
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 1073-1652

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged; Economics; Logistics; Mobility; Policy; Technology; Transportation planning; Transportation policy
• Subject Areas: Economics; Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

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• Accession Number: 00974947
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309077451
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 24 2004 12:00AM