In 2016, transportation engineers, planners, advocates, and policymakers continue to face a rapidly changing landscape of communities calling for new solutions. Technological advances, societal shifts, energy demands, and demographic changes are requiring new strategies to safely and efficiently move people and freight. Cross-discipline efforts to meet these challenges are on the rise. This article examines some of the recent and ongoing local, national, and international initiatives and programs that are inspiring new transportation approaches to cross-discipline topics such as public health, safety, and community building encouraged to spread the calls to action. In September 2015, US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy took action to make walking a national priority in the US. The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 64/255 in March 2010 declared 2011-2020 the UN Decade of Action for Global Road Safety. In 2015, US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx Fox launched the US Department of Transportation's Safer People, Safer Street Initiative to do more to address non-motorized safety issues and help communities create safer, better connected bicycling and walking networks.
The State of Transportation 2016: Initiatives with a Call to Action
ITE journal ; 86 , 1
2016
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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