{"id":1250,"date":"2012-04-05T22:34:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T22:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2012-04-05T22:42:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T22:42:32","slug":"transportation-and-the-new-generation-why-young-people-are-driving-less-and-what-it-means-for-transportation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/transportation-and-the-new-generation-why-young-people-are-driving-less-and-what-it-means-for-transportation-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Transportation and the New Generation: Why Young People Are Driving Less and What It Means for Transportation Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\">Original article by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontiergroup.org\/reports\/fg\/transportation-and-new-generation\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Davis and Tony Dutzik<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontiergroup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frontier Group<\/a>; Phineas Baxandall, U.S. PIRG Education Fund<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;America has long created transportation policy under the assumption that  driving will continue to increase at a rapid and steady rate. The  changing transportation preferences of young people \u2013 and Americans  overall \u2013 throw that assumption into doubt.<strong> Policy-makers and  the public need to be aware that America\u2019s current transportation policy  \u2013 dominated by road building \u2013 is fundamentally out-of-step with the  transportation patterns and expressed preferences of growing numbers of  Americans.<\/strong> It is time for policy-makers to consider the  implication of changes in driving habits for the nation\u2019s transportation  infrastructure decisions and funding practices, and consider a new  vision for transportation policy that reflects the needs of 21st century  America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontiergroup.org\/reports\/fg\/transportation-and-new-generation\" target=\"_blank\">Continued at original site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original article by Benjamin Davis and Tony Dutzik, Frontier Group; Phineas Baxandall, U.S. PIRG Education Fund &#8220;America has long created transportation policy under the assumption that driving will continue to increase at a rapid and steady rate. The changing transportation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/transportation-and-the-new-generation-why-young-people-are-driving-less-and-what-it-means-for-transportation-policy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6838,6846,6826,111,6827,160,6845],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-active-transport","category-car-ownership","category-costs","category-news","category-peers","category-research","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}