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Does future elderly transportation demand pose a "pending crisis"?
 — challenges for research and policymaking
Author(s)Sarah Bush
Journal titlePublic Policy and Aging Report, vol 11, no 4, Summer 2001
PublisherNational Academy on an Aging Society, Summer 2001
Pages15-19
KeywordsTransport services organisation ; Social policy ; United States of America.
AnnotationAgeing policy in the US tends to focus on health and financial security, areas that are both data rich and supported by well-documented forecasts. These predictions support policymakers in deciding how best to allocate future public (and often private) resources to meet the needs of an ageing society. However, other policy issues that are moving into the ageing policy mainstream do not currently benefit from such a context of "informed" decision making. Transport is one of these new agenda problems. This article reviews how US transport researchers have analysed and forecast travel behaviour, and concludes that the transport and ageing policy community needs to improve data collection and forecasting efforts, in order to support an informed policy discussion. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-011217204 A
ClassmarkOG: TM2: 7T

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