Transportation

The AARP Public Policy Institute focuses on issues of critical importance as we age. Below we highlight research, analysis, background and commentary on Livable Communities.

February 21, 2025 · 1 min · 163 words · Mary Koch PhD

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Future of Transportation

Explore how emerging technologies are transforming our transportation system.

Safe Streets

More than 30,000 Americans are killed on our nations 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.

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Innovations in Rural Public Transportation

Wide open highway with mountains in distance

Long escalator inside a subway tunnel surrounded by red and blue lights

Volunteer Driving Insurance Report Photo

Urban Land

![Bicyclists, road, Jacksonville, Florida, Travel patterns, Transportation, Public Policy Institute, Livable Communitiies](https://cdn.aarp.net/content/dam/aarpe/en/home/pri/initiatives/livable-communities/transportation/_jcr_content/root/container_main/container_marquee_co/container_marquee_100/container_1942300782_1082594761/container/articleimage.coreimg.75.932.jpeg/content/dam/aarp/ppi/Liveable Communities/1140-livable-communities-travel-patterns-jacksonville.jpg)

![Bicyclist Crosses Road, Cobblestones, Bus, AARP, Public Policy Institute, Livable Communities, Transportation](https://cdn.aarp.net/content/dam/aarpe/en/home/pri/initiatives/livable-communities/transportation/_jcr_content/root/container_main/container_marquee_co/container_marquee_100/container_1942300782/container/articleimage.coreimg.75.932.jpeg/content/dam/aarp/ppi/Liveable Communities/1140-livable-communities-transportation-bicycle-options.jpg)

![Bicyclists, road, Jacksonville, Florida, Travel patterns, Transportation, Public Policy Institute, Livable Communitiies](https://cdn.aarp.net/content/dam/aarpe/en/home/pri/initiatives/livable-communities/transportation/_jcr_content/root/container_main/container_marquee_co/container_marquee_100/container_1942300782_2000937641/container/articleimage.coreimg.75.932.jpeg/content/dam/aarp/ppi/Liveable Communities/1140-livable-communities-travel-patterns-jacksonville.jpg)

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