SAFE MOBILITY FOR A MATURING SOCIETY: A NATIONAL AGENDA: DRAFT, OCTOBER 18, 2002

Out of a series of regional forums, focus groups, conferences, and stakeholder roundtables over the last several years, a vision of America's transportation system has evolved. It is summarized in the opening paragraph and set forth as a National Agenda to provide safe mobility for a maturing society. Its organizing principle is to enable safe driving as late in life as possible and to offer other convenient transportation options when walking and driving are not feasible. The National Agenda identifies the following seven areas where professionals need to make concerted efforts to manage safe transportation for our aging population: 1) Develop state and local safe-mobility action plans; 2) Promote safer, easier-to-use roadways; 3) Create safer, easier-to-use automobiles; 4) Improve older driver competency; 5) Promote better, easier-to-use public transportation services; 6) Better public information; and 7) Basic and social research needs.

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• Authors:
  • Trilling, D
  • Eberhard, J
• 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;
• Pagination: p. 313-318
• Monograph Title: TRANSPORTATION IN AN AGING SOCIETY: A DECADE OF EXPERIENCE. TECHNICAL PAPERS AND REPORTS FROM A CONFERENCE, NOVEMBER 7-9, 1999, BETHESDA, MARYLAND
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Conference Proceedings
  • Issue Number: 27
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 1073-1652

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged; Aged drivers; Highway design; Land use; Mobility; Pedestrian areas; Public information programs; Public transit; Research; Safety; Transportation planning; Vehicle safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver competency
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Research; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00974959
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309077451
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jun 25 2004 12:00AM