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RELATED PAGES
- Age-Friendly Transportation Solutions
- Free Guides About Making Streets Safer for Walking and Bicycling
- Getting Around: Bicycling
- Getting Around: Walking
INSPIRING IDEAS
- A Taxi Service Enables Older Adults to Get Where They Need to Go (2023)
- 5 A's of Senior-Friendly Transit (2023)
- Helping Older Adults Keep Their Medical Appointments (2022)
- Feonix: Mobility Rising: Providing Rides Along Rural Roadways (2019)
- Cities Celebrate Award-Winning Drivers (2019)
- iTNAmerica Provides 1,000,000 Rides and Counting (2018)
- See an Example of a Complete Street (2018)
- How to Create Safer Drivers (2018)
- How to Reduce Car-vs-Bicycle Crashes by 81 Percent (2017)
- How Mayors Are Helping People Get Where They Need to Go (2016)
- Disrupt Aging by Rethinking How We Get Around (2016)
- Vision Zero Looks to Make Streets Safer (2015)
- 11 Vision Zero Solutions (2015)
- Why Public Transit, Bicycling and Walking are Leading Us to a Brighter Future (2015)
- Living a Car-Free Life (2015)
- Why Older Adults Should Give Up Their Cars (2015)
- How to Go Car-Free (or Car-Lite) (2015)
LOCAL EFFORTS
- The ‘Lexpress’ Bus Takes Residents to Their Town’s ‘Nooks and Crannies’ (2026)
- Turning Transit Stops Into Community Spaces in St. Louis, Missouri (2023)
- Free and Low-Cost Age-Friendly Transportation Options (2023)
- Boston is Putting Driverless Cars Through an Age-Friendly Test (2019)
- Look, No Hands! Rochester Hills, Michigan, Prepares for Driverless Cars (2019)
- A Golden Solution for Slippery Sidewalks (2018)
- How to Get a Pedestrian Island Installed (2018)
- Moving an Age-Friendly Washington D.C., Transportation for All Ages (2014)
HISTORY
- Older Adults Recall Life Before the Highway (2023)
- Decades of Highway Construction and Community Destruction (2023)
- Before the Highway: Mayor Ken Welch, St. Petersburg, Florida (2023)
- Before the Highway: Shirley Mixon Smith, Columbus, Ohio (2023)
- Before the Highway: Moses Freeman, Chattanooga, Tennessee (2023)
- Before the Highway: Marvin Rogers Anderson, Saint Paul, Minnesota (2023)
- Before the Highway: Rose Childress, Houston, Texas (2023)
- Before the Highway: David Everett, Rochester, New York (2023)
- Before the Highway: Martin Pedraza, Rochester, New York (2023)
- Video: Honoring Those Buried in a Historic Cemetery (2021)
COMPLETE STREETS
- Videos: Championing Complete Streets — by Smart Growth America and AARP (2025)
- Free Publication: Complete Streets Model Legislation for States and Municipalities (2024)
- See an Example of a Complete Street (2018)
- Florida's Complete Streets Implementation Plan (2016)
- Rhode Island's Complete Streets Action Plan (2015)
- Complete Streets in the Southeast: A Tool Kit (2014)
RESEARCH AND POLICY
- Dangerous by Design v. Safer by Design (2021)
- The Transactional Data Specification and Equitable Mobility-as-a-Service (2021)
- RideSheet: Rural Transportation Benefits from New Coordination Technology (2021)
- Modernizing Demand-Responsive Transportation for the Age of New Mobility (2020)
- The Time Has Come: Adopting a Common Data Language to Enhance Mobility (2020)
- Emerging Innovations: Mobility Managers (2019)
- Mobility As a Service Has 'MaaS' Appeal Slideshow and Video (2019)
- Universal Mobility as a Service (2018)
- Transit-Oriented Housing Helps Older Adults Live Independent Lives (2017)
- Communities Are Embracing Development Near Transit (2017)
- Slideshow: A Snapshot (and Snapshots) of Transit-Oriented Development (2017)
- Infographic: A Snapshot of Transit-Oriented Development (2017)
- A Pedestrian is Killed Every 2 Hours and Injured Every 7 Minutes (2016)
- Dangerous by Design Report (2016)
- Dangerous by Design Report (2014)
- Slideshow: Dangerously Incomplete Streets (2014)
INTERVIEWS
- Q&A with Mayor Jim Kenney, Philadelphia (2017)
- Q&A with Billy Hattaway, Florida Transportation Secretary (2016)
- Q&A with Leah Shahum of the Vision Zero Network (2016)
- Q&A with Katherine Freund, ITNAmerica (2015)
- Q&A with Anthony Foxx, U.S. Secretary of Transportation (2014)
PUBLICATIONS
2020 AARP LIVABLE TRANSPORTATION WORKSHOP VIDEOS
- Transportation Workshop (Main Page)
- Keynote Speaker: Veronica O. Davis
- Keynote Speaker: Toks Omishakin
- Keynote Speaker: Karina Ricks
- Safety Panel
- Accessibility Panel
- Resilience Panel
VIDEOS
- Presentations by Beth Osborne, Transportation for America (2020)
- Mobility As a Service Has 'MaaS' Appeal Slideshow and Video (2019)
- Talking About the Future of Mobility (2019)
- Autonomous Passenger Shuttles Take Seniors Around Detroit (2019)
- Installing a Connected Bike Trail Around Town in the Virgin Islands (2019)
- An Accessible Solution for Saco, Maine (2018)
- Safer Sidewalks for Walking in Memphis (2018)
- Offering More Ways for Older Adults to Get Around West Sacramento (2018)
- A Place to Sit While Waiting for a Bus in Miami (2018)
- Making it Fun to Wait for a Bus in Charlotte, NC (2018)
- Safer Streets, and Spots to Sit in Louisville (2018)
- Using 'Pop-Ups' to Improve Public Transit in St. Louis (2017)
- Improving Driver and Pedestrian Safety in Fort Worth (2017)
- Installing a Walk-Bike Trail in Bismarck (2017)
- Rural Transit Connects: Washington State's Innovative Intercity Bus Program (2014)
