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Livability Library: Transportation Archive

Links to articles, tool kits, webinars, workshops and more

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See an Example of a Complete Street

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An example of a Complete Street

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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)

Making Communities More Livable for People with Vision or Hearing Impairments (2016)

Old and New Challenges for People With Vision or Hearing Impairments (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

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)

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)

ASK THE EXPERTS

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)

RESEARCH AND HISTORY

Before the Highway (2023)

Dangerous by Design v. Safer by Design (2021)

Mobility As a Service Has 'MaaS' Appeal Slideshow and Video (2019)

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, Remarks by Anthony Foxx, U.S. Secretary of Transportation

Dangerous by Design Report (2016)

Dangerous by Design Report (2014)

Slideshow: Dangerously Incomplete Streets (2014)

FREE PUBLICATIONS

Roadmap to Livability: Transportation Workbook (2017)

AARP Livability Fact Sheet Roundabouts (2014)

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)

POLICY

Website: The Future of Transportation

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)

Universal Mobility as a Service (2018)

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