Planning Complete Streets for an Aging America

Despite the oncoming stream of older boomers, over two-thirds of transportation planners and engineers have not begun to consider the needs of older people in their multimodal street planning


This report from the AARP Public Policy Institute offers refinements to intersection design treatments recommended by the Federal Highway Administration in its Design Handbook for Older Drivers and Pedestrians. A public opinion telephone survey of the 50+ population, an online survey of more than 1,000 transportation planners and engineers, and an inventory of the 80 existing state Complete Streets policies inform this study. (128 pages)

http://www.aarp.org/research/housing-mobility/transportation/2009_02_streets.html