North Dakota Transportation Survey: Aging and Mobility
Mobility is fundamentally important for people to live full and satisfying lives. As people age, however, their mobility may decline. To investigate issues of aging and mobility and other concerns of older adults, the AARP conducted a survey of its North Dakota members. This study analyzes the results from the transportation section of the AARP survey. Specific objectives are to determine how informed and satisfied older adults are with their transportation options, how often they make different types of trips, if they desire more trips, if lack of transportation limits the trips they make, what improvements they would like to see made for them to stay in their neighborhood as they age, and what problems they encounter with using public transportation. The survey shows that most AARP members in North Dakota continue to drive, and they are more satisfied than dissatisfied with their transportation options. Although many still drive, transit is found to be very valuable for certain segments of the population and for certain trips, and an analysis of the data using logit modeling shows that for all types of trips, transportation is more likely to be a limiting factor as age increases. Also significant is the impact that disabilities have on the ability to make trips.
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Corporate Authors:
Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute
Small Urban and Rural Transit Center, North Dakota State University, P.O. Box 6050
Fargo, ND United States 58108-6050Federal Transit Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Authors:
- Mattson, Jeremy
- Publication Date: 2009-12
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 65p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Aged; Demographics; Mobility; Persons with disabilities; Statistical analysis; Surveys; Travel behavior
- Identifier Terms: American Association of Retired Persons
- Geographic Terms: North Dakota
- Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01456648
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: DP-221
- Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
- Created Date: Dec 11 2012 11:55AM