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Title:

Complete Streets for Older Adults

Accession Number:

01123087

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

For several years, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) has encouraged states to implement the Federal Highway Administration?s roadway engineering guidelines for older drivers and pedestrians. More recently, AARP has endorsed the planning concept, complete streets. Complete streets are those that are designed for the safety and comfort of all road users, regardless of age and ability. Naturally this definition should extend to the needs of older road users. But does it in practice? And do the engineering solutions offered for older drivers work for pedestrians and bicyclists, the major focus of the complete streets movement? The AARP Public Policy Institute (PPI) embarked upon this project to discover the nexus between these two, as of yet, distinct areas of research and practice. To do this PPI formed an interdisciplinary team of planners, engineers, and policy advocates to review the safety research and offer both policy and design recommendations that can be used by engineers, planners, and citizen advocates in their quest to build safe, more livable streets for everyone. The next several years marks unprecedented opportunity to affect our built environment. The Federal Highway Administration is undergoing an update to its Highway Design Handbook for Older Drivers and Pedestrians; local and state governments in ever-increasing numbers are adopting complete streets policies, and Congress has introduced complete streets bills at the same time it is holding hearings on highway safety in anticipation of reauthorization of surface transportation legislation. It is PPI?s hope that this research report and accompanying design document will stimulate new understanding and thinking that will lead to better streets for all Americans.

Monograph Accession #:

01120148

Report/Paper Numbers:

09-3200

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Lynott, Jana
Taylor, Amanda

Pagination:

13p

Publication Date:

2009

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2009-1-11 to 2009-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Appendices (5) ; References

Subject Areas:

Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2009 Paper #09-3200

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 30 2009 7:37PM