Toolkit

Mobility Lab offers a toolkit for transportation planners.

Much of the material here provides insight into how Arlington County, Virginia and Washington D.C. have implemented transportation-oriented development that works and can easily be replicated. The toolkit includes actual tools, marketing promotions, and strategies that have been utilized by these locales, but also ones that have been shown to work from places all over the world.

Check back often because we plan to better organize the toolbox into helpful and easy-to-navigate categories such as bicycle programs, marketing, behavior change, business incentives, energy savings, key research, policy, community design, improving traffic, and jobs.

If you have tools that you think may fit in nicely into the toolbox, we would love to hear from you. You can send your ideas and insights to Paul Mackie, director of communications, at Paul.Mackie@MobilityLab.org.

Health
Dr. Teel featured

“Telehealth:” The Elderly Equivalent to Telework

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 2:12 PM

As our aging relatives live longer and with greater illnesses, we often witness their worlds becoming smaller, with a constant focus on the medical aspects of life. Though more illness requires more attention, we must encourage people as they age to proactively maintain (or re-establish) a proper balance between the medical and non-medical facets of [...]

by Stephanie K. Firestone
Health
Walk at Lunch video featured

Are You Ready for Walk at Lunch Day?

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 4:36 PM

Have you formed your teams and mapped where you want to walk? Have you broken in new walking shoes? Are you ready to walk? We are, and this video should get you even more in the mood! Arlington Transportation Partners has been working hard to make our three pit stops for the 2013 National Walk [...]

by Elizabeth A. Floyd
Education
Aging flyer featured

NEWS RELEASE: Transportation Solutions Presented to Guide Seniors through Driving Retirement

Thursday, April 11, 2013 4:18 PM

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – The population of seniors 65 years and older in the U.S. is set to double over the next 25 years. And society – particularly our transportation systems meant to keep people mobile and active – is not prepared for this “silver tsunami.” Finding the keys to what needs to happen to prepare [...]

by Paul Mackie
Toolkit
Hack Day featured

Ideas Aplenty Flow as a Result of Latest Hack Day

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:38 PM

Local technologists shared ideas and worked together at Mobility Lab’s recent Data Visualization Hack Day. It’s great to take an online community and bring folks together. One of the participants, Ted Eytan, has already shared his experience of how he learned about new available data sets – see Walking on Mondays Looks Like a Healthy, Smart Business [...]

by Michael Schade
Economic Prosperity
WalkArlington Works featured

Airlines Reporting Corporation Builds Health and Commuting Options with Arlington’s Help

Monday, March 25, 2013 3:18 PM

Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) is one of hundreds of companies that Arlington Transportation Partners (ATP)  works with to improve the quality-of-life in this vibrant county located directly across the Potomac River from Washington D.C. Pinky Advani, ATP’s manager of business development in the neighborhood of Clarendon, where ARC is located, partnered with Tanya Nass, manager [...]

by Lois DeMeester
Mobility Lab & Partner Research
Hubway featured

Boston and Minneapolis-Saint Paul Maps Show Bikeshare’s Transportation Impact

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:06 PM

After building the CaBi Trip Visualizer for the Capital Bikeshare system in Washington D.C. and Virginia, I looked for other cities I could do similar analyses with. I found two other systems that posted the open data that would allow me to create maps showing where their riders are coming and going. I got the [...]

by Michael Schade
Community Design
R-B Corridor featured

Arlington Focuses on Moving People, Not Cars, in the Nation’s Worst Traffic Metro Area

Tuesday, February 5, 2013 3:10 PM

The Washington D.C. region’s traffic is the worst in the nation — even worse than Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York — according to a new report by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute called the Urban Mobility Report. And in a news article about the findings by NBC Washington, one D.C. commuter says the reason is [...]

by Tom Fairchild
Environment
Medium group of people standing in subway train doorway

Documentary Details How Riding Trains Reduces Stress

Friday, February 1, 2013 1:11 PM

Less pollution, less congestion … those are good reasons to travel by train, but stress may be an even better one. For instance, people admitted to hospitals for heart attacks have a higher rate of having been in heavy traffic congestion just prior to their medical emergencies than other types of patients. And according to [...]

by Bernie Wagenblast
Community Design
Superdome featured

Transportation Planners Begin Early to Make Super Bowls Successful

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 2:48 PM

The Super Bowl isn’t all halftime shows and commercials. For a long time before the big game even begins, transportation professionals are working on plans to move thousands of people. New Orleans officials say that communications is a key to make sure transportation options are available and move residents and visitors around the city efficiently. [...]

by Bernie Wagenblast
Mobility Lab & Partner Research
Alexandria map featured

Neighborhood Clusters Added to Updated Capital Bikeshare Trip Visualizer

Tuesday, January 29, 2013 12:30 PM

Capital Bikeshare’s trip history data for the 4th quarter of 2012 has been posted, and with it I’ve made a new version of the CaBi Trip Visualizer. (See last quarter’s version at A Closer Look at Bikeshare Data.) For this version, I’ve strengthened the features that let you examine clusters of stations. When you select [...]

by Michael Schade

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