Transportation in an Aging Society: A Decade of Experience. Technical Papers and Reports from a Conference. Held in Bethesda, Maryland on November 7-9, 1999

摘要

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) Conference on Transportation in an Aging Society: A Decade of Experience, held in November 1999, grew out of a recommendation in TRB Special Report 218, Transportation in an Aging Society (1988), that an organization be formed to encourage, coordinate, and disseminate research, information, and programs on older-person driving and mobility. Although resources were not available to establish such an organization, John Eberhard of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) considered this an important activity and approached TRB about forming a group of volunteers to move forward in that direction. The results of that effort, which began 12 years ago, are the current TRB Committee on Older Person Safety and Mobility and the conference that is reported on in these proceedings. The purpose of the conference was to review what had been accomplished in research and implementation since the publication of Special Report 218 and to identify future research and implementation needs for achieving safer mobility for older persons.