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The Transportation Research Board is planning a major, 2-year study to review research on and experience with older drivers and pedestrians and to recommend actions that should be taken in anticipation of future population characteristics. Once the necessary support arrangements are completed, TRB will assemble a committee of experts in gerontology, human factors, highway engineering, law, vehicle design, traffic operations, public transportation, driver licensing, driver education, and other fields to: 1. Comprehensively evaluate available data and research on the safety needs of the aging in traffic; 2. Identify the most promising, cost-effective, and practical measures to improve highways, vehicles, and driver and pedestrian performance; 3. Evaluate the public policy questions on costs, trade-offs between safety and other mobility objectives, and the sometimes-conflicting needs of individuals and the general public; 4. Recommend improvements in highway conditions and practices, vehicle design, and licensing, testing, and education activities; and 5. Identify promising areas for further research on the needs of the elderly in traffic and the ways to meet those needs. The final report for this study will carefully identify professional practices and public policies that can help resolve the problems of mobility for the elderly. Wherever the supporting data are strong enough to permit definitive recommendations, specific design, administrative, or regulatory steps will be proposed. When such recommendations cannot be made because they involve political judgements or trade-offs, the effects of alternative actions will be described and evaluated. Together these recommendations and evaluations will enhance the basis for sound public choices. (Author)

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1985-9

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Aged; Alternatives analysis; Improvements; Mobility; Recommendations; Safety; Transportation policy

Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB

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