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Transportation for the Elderly / Martin Wachs.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wachs, Martin, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2020
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
- Contents:
- Transportation for the Elderly
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. The changing elderly and the diversity of their lifestyles
- The place of the elderly in future transportation policy
- Demographic and social changes among the elderly
- Consequences of social and demographic changes among the elderly
- Anticipated changes in mobility and tripmaking among the elderly
- The concept of lifestyle
- The role of lifestyle in the study of locational and travel behavior of the elderly
- Chapter 2. Lifestyles of the current elderly of los angeles county
- Research technique for defining lifestyle groups
- Lifestyles of the current elderly
- Observations and conclusions
- Chapter 3. Relationships between lifestyle and travel behavior of the elderly
- Research technique for studying relationships between lifestyle and travel
- Variations in travel behavior with differences in lifestyle: research results
- Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 4. Current transportation services for the elderly
- Selection of sample communities
- Identification of transportation services
- Bus service
- Taxi service
- Specialized transportation services
- Chapter 5. The changing social setting of the elderly
- Analytical framework for the longitudinal analysis
- History of the elderly's residential location
- Dimensions and areas of lifestyle of the middle-aged population
- Differentiation of cohort, aging, and period effects
- Conclusions
- Chapter 6. The future population and residential location of the elderly
- Population forecasting methodology
- Population forecast scenarios
- Comparison of population forecasts with housing market projections
- Chapter 7. The future travel patterns of the elderly
- The travel forecast
- Chapter 8. Meeting the changing transportation needs of older Americans
- Recapitulation of major conclusions from los angeles
- The problem of interpreting transportation needs
- Current national priorities for meeting the transportation needs of the elderly
- The goals of transportation policy for the elderly
- Service coordination through a local transportation authority
- Meeting mobility needs through user-side subsidies
- Mobility for the suburbanized elderly of the future: the role of the automobile
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Okt 2020)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780520337749
- 0520337743
- OCLC:
- 1198930667
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