As the number of older adults in Texas steadily grows, transportation remains essential to that population segment. This report presents an overview of how mobility impacts healthy aging and also reviews policies and programs that address the transportation-related needs of older adults.
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New Report: How Will E-Commerce Growth Impact Our Transportation Network?
The steady growth in online retailing continues to rattle long-established business models and the shopping patterns of consumers (who are also taxpayers, voters, and drivers). These changes, which include more frequent and immediate delivery options, can directly impact our transportation system, bringing to light a number of challenges. Planners and policy makers alike will need […]
New Report on Shale Development Impacts Draws upon PRC Studies
A comprehensive, new review of the impacts of shale oil and gas development in Texas by a cross-disciplinary task force—organized by The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST)—finds a wide range of both benefits and consequences for the state’s infrastructure, environment and communities. These impacts are detailed in the new report by the […]
New Report: Role of the Texas Transportation System in Attracting and Retaining Business
In 2015, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute surveyed 500 Texas businesses to determine transportation factors that affect freight business decisions, including facility siting. In this more recent effort, researchers sought to further clarify the importance of transportation in site selection decisions for six key industry sectors: advanced technologies and manufacturing, aerospace and defense, biotechnology and […]
New Report: How Vulnerable is Texas’ Freight Infrastructure to Extreme Weather Events?
The freight community’s ability to prepare for and respond to extreme weather events is in part dependent upon the resilience of the transportation infrastructure and whether the system maintains functionality during and following adverse conditions. However, freight infrastructure resilience analysis, design, and planning methods are relatively immature and may limit the ability to effectively plan […]
New Report: Metropolitan Planning Organizations – Overview and Profiles
A metropolitan planning organization (MPO) has authority and responsibility for regional transportation planning in urbanized areas where the population is at least 50,000 and surrounding areas meet size/density criteria determined by the U.S. Census Bureau. Growth pressures resulting from post-World War II suburbanization led to the development of MPOs, which were established through provisions of […]