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Title:

Increasing Elderly Mobility by 2025: Using National Household Travel Survey to Increase Mobility of Elderly Nondrivers

Accession Number:

01020405

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Analysis of the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) data reveals that the greatest decrease in mobility for most Americans occurs not as they age, but when they stop driving. The number of elderly non-drivers will increase by 50% in the U.S. by 2025. Therefore, the author applies regression techniques to the 2001 NHTS data to identify and quantify variables related to elderly non-driver mobility. Twelve variables are found to be significantly related to the trip-making of the 4,000+ elderly non-drivers in the survey, including residential density which is investigated in detail. Based on the regression results, actions which may increase the mobility of elderly non-drivers are identified.

Monograph Accession #:

01020180

Report/Paper Numbers:

06-1220

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Case, Robert

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2006

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2006-1-22 to 2006-1-26
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

CD-ROM

Features:

Figures; References (14) ; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Nondrivers; Residential density

Geographic Terms:

United States

Subject Areas:

Data and Information Technology; Environment; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Society

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2006 Paper #06-1220

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Mar 3 2006 10:37AM