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AARP Transportation Principles
The following principles set out broad goals for policymakers and community stakeholders to provide a variety of transportation options to meet the needs of their residents.
- Promote affordable transportation options
- Ensure the transportation system is accessible
- Promote healthy communities through sustainable transportation infrastructure
- Foster coordinated transportation services and assets
- Strengthen federal leadership in transportation
For detailed information on our policies around Livable Communities, please see our policy book.
Featured Publications
Safe Streets
More than 30,000 Americans are killed on our nation’s roadways each year and far more are injured. Older road users, because of their increased frailty, are overrepresented in both vehicle and pedestrian crash fatalities.
Complete Streets are those designed and operated for safe, comfortable and convenient travel by pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities. The focus of complete streets initiatives has been on changing transportation agency policies and procedures so that these multimodal accommodations become routine at the project-development stage. Well-designed roads help to extend many older adults’ safe driving years and at the same time they make it possible to travel by foot, bicycle or public transit safely in the community.
Convenient Transportation Options
A variety of safe, affordable, dependable and user-friendly travel options enables people of all ages to stay active and engaged in their communities. For some, regular, fixed-route public transportation services are ideal; for others, because of health, disability status or geography, more personalized services — such as paratransit, dial-a-ride, reduced-fare taxis or rides in private vehicles available through volunteer driver programs — are needed.
PUBLICATIONS
RideSheet: Rural Transportation Benefits from New Coordination Technology
Modernizing Demand Responsive Transportation
Older Adults, New Mobility and Autonomous Vehicles
Creating the Transportation System We Want
Universal Mobility As A Service
Reconnecting Small Town America by Bus
Emerging Innovations: Mobility Managers
Volunteer Driver Insurance in the Age of Ridehailing
Expanding Specialized Transportation
Policy Options to Improve Specialized Transportation
BLOG POSTS
RideSheet: A Transportation Technology Solution for Rural America
Rightsizing Transportation Technology for Rural America
Bridging the Transportation Gap for Rural Communities
To the Rockies and Back Without a Car
Threats to Infrastructure Funding
Reconnecting Small Town America by Bus
Travel Patterns of the 50+
AARP is your go-to resource to understand the travel of persons age 50+. The AARP Public Policy Institute has done extensive analysis of the National Household Travel Survey data series to understand the travel patterns of persons age 50 and older, as well as other population groups.
AARP Livable Communities
AARP Livable Communities