Transportation-related Behaviors and Attitudes: A Survey of Florida's Aging Road Users

The project involves a statewide survey of aging road users (50 years and older), aimed at collecting data that can inform the Safe Mobility for Life Coalition's (SMFLC's) focus and outreach. The survey, which will include a web-based and pen-and-paper version, will be a follow-up and extension of a similar survey, conducted in 2017, that yielded over 3000 respondents. Summaries of the results of this baseline survey were used to promote the goals of the SMFLC through outreach and education. As examples, results indicating that over three-quarters of respondents had not planned for the day they could no longer drive safely and two-thirds feared they’d become isolated if they stopped driving were used to create outreach and marketing materials in community events and statewide campaigns (e.g., Older Driver Safety Awareness Week), as well as to create display materials used at educational events around the state.

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $90199
• Contract Numbers:

  BDV30 977-32

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Florida Department of Transportation

  605 Suwannee Street
  Tallahassee, FL  United States  32399-0450
• Managing Organizations:

  Florida Department of Transportation

  Research Center
  605 Suwannee Street MS-30
  Tallahassee, FL  United States  32399-0450
• Project Managers:

  Holley, Gail

• Performing Organizations:

  Florida State University, Tallahassee

  217 Westcott Building
  Tallahassee, FL  United States  32306-
• Principal Investigators:

  Barrett, Anne

• Start Date: 20200603
• Expected Completion Date: 20210930
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged; Aged drivers; Attitudes; Behavior; Mobility; Outreach; Surveys; Transportation
• Geographic Terms: Florida
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Safety and Human Factors; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01741906
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Florida Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: BDV30 977-32
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jun 4 2020 10:44AM