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Improving Mobility and Quality of Life for Older Adults

Source: National Institute for Transportation and Communities
Considers the mobility challenges, barriers, and gaps older adults experience to help develop forms of assistance or educational strategies to fill them.
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Defining the 15-Minute City

Source: CNU Public Square
Defines the “15-minute city” as an ideal geography where most human needs and many desires are located within a travel distance of 15 minutes.
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Book: New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies by Todd Litman

Source: Island Press
Examines and evaluates 12 emerging transportation modes and services, including: bike and carsharing, micromobilities, ridehailing and microtransit, public transit innovations, telework, autonomous and electric vehicles,
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Speed, Affordability, Equity, and Transportation Planning Practices

Source: Victoria Transport Policy Institute
Provides slides of a presentation that describes how common planning practices favor faster modes and higher traffic speeds over slower but more affordable and resource-efficient options resulting in inequities.
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Putting the Pieces Together: Addressing the Role of Behavioral Safety in the Safe System Approach

Source: Governors Highway Safety Association
Takes a comprehensive approach to include the role of behavioral safety and road user responsibility within a Safe System and includes recommendations showing how organizations and advocates can work together to prevent roadway deaths.
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Street Lighting for Pedestrian Safety

Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Features multiple articles focusing on the Safe System approach and principles of the approach as a way to center road safety on humans, regardless of mode of travel, and proactively building layers of protection.
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Public Right-of-Way Accessibility Guidelines (PROWAG) Announcement

Source: USDOT, USDOJ
Announces anticipation of adoption of PROWAG to update and expand the existing 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act guidance.
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Mandatory Bicycle Parking in European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive

Source: European Cyclists' Federation
Proposes a revision to the European Commission's Energy Performance of Buildings Directive to require all new and renovated residential and nonresidential buildings provide spaces for bicycle parking.
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Shift to Cycling Needed to Cut Urban Transport Emissions

Source: EURACTIV
States that the European Commission's transport proposals geared towards achieving the goal of reducing transport emissions by 90% and implementing key actions of its Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy cannot be achieved by e-
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European Commission Urban Mobility Framework

Source: Momentum Mag
Reports on the introduction of a new Urban Mobility Framework to modernize mobility and transportation and advance the move toward sustainable modes of transportation.
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