Improving Public Transit Options for Older Persons

Improving Public Transit Options for Older Persons
Author: Jon E. Burkhardt
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2002
Genre: Local transit
ISBN: 0309067693

Describes exemplary transportation services and innovative transportation alternatives designed to enable older persons to maintain independence.

Improving the Safety of Older Road Users

Improving the Safety of Older Road Users
Author: Jane C. Stutts
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2005
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0309097525

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 348: Improving the Safety of Older Road Users examines programs and policies in place across the country to improve the safety and mobility of older road users. The report documents a range of strategies and related programs under way in roadway engineering, driver licensing, public information and education, and enforcement and adjudication.

Perspectives and Strategies for Promoting Safe Transportation Among Older Adults

Perspectives and Strategies for Promoting Safe Transportation Among Older Adults
Author: David W. Eby
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2018-11-27
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0128123265

Promoting Safe Transportation among Older Adults: Perspectives and Strategies provides a concise, comprehensive, and up-to-date resource on safe mobility for an aging population. The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective for understanding and influencing the behavior of older adults with regard to their safe transportation. It is organized around the professions and disciplines that have a stake in the safe transportation of older adults and the role they play at each stage of their mobility needs. The book also addresses the various strategies that have been used to help keep older adults safe and mobile. Readers will find great insights on key issues related to aging and mobility, giving them an overarching framework for how to maintain safe mobility into older adulthood. The book enables readers to understand the perspectives of the critical groups of people involved in keeping older people safe and explores existing strategies by which an aging individual can maintain safe mobility. - Utilizes a multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach for examining the complexities of transportation for older adults - Offers an integrated, overarching narrative for understanding the key issues of safety and mobility in our aging society - Written by leading transportation and health scholars - Offers insights into the perspectives of all the stakeholders, such as hands-on transportation and health practitioners, students of varying levels, researchers and policymakers

Maintaining Safe Mobility in an Aging Society

Maintaining Safe Mobility in an Aging Society
Author: David W. Eby
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2008-12-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1040172512

By 2030, 20 percent of the world's drivers, 60 million in all, will be over the age of 65. Consequently, safe and efficient mobility for older adults is a complex and pressing issue. Maintaining Safe Mobility in an Aging Society addresses the complexities surrounding the booming number of aging drivers and practical solutions for sustaining safe tr

Publications Catalog

Publications Catalog
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2003
Genre: Highway research
ISBN: