Videos

Welcome to our videos, many of which will be helpful to you in finding options to get people out of single-occupancy vehicles and into other more beneficial modes of travel, such as biking, walking, buses, trains, ridesharing, and working from home. See more videos on our YouTube page (http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMobilityLab/videos).

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
Events

The Cutting Edge on Aging-in-Place

Monday, April 22, 2013 5:05 PM

Join us at Mobility Lab for a discussion with Dr. Allan Teel, who has created a completely new aging paradigm based on the objective of empowering older adults, and using a methodology that he calls virtual assisted living. Since 90 percent of us hope to age-in-place, we must start giving a lot more creative thought to [...]

by Stephanie K. Firestone
Health
Everybody Walk! featured

Let’s Count the Reasons to Walk

Monday, April 22, 2013 1:26 PM

With National Walk at Lunch Day this week, now is the perfect time to take a few seconds out of your busy day to watch this video by Everybody Walk! The Campaign to Get America Walking. And we all know that walking for 30 minutes each day is one of the simplest ways to stay [...]

by Paul Mackie
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
Transit Tech
Chris Hamilton TranspoCamp DC

Technology Will Fuel Transportation Needs of the Future

Tuesday, February 19, 2013 4:04 PM

TransportationCamp DC is all about providing technology tools to people so they can make the critical choices of getting from Point A to Point B and beyond. The convergence this year of hundreds of urbanists, transportation aficionados, and people who work with technology for a living all joined together on the Saturday last month before the [...]

by Chris Hamilton
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
Transit Tech
Kurt and Chris featured

Transit Riders Need to Demand Better Real-Time Departure Information

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:04 PM

Kurt Raschke, a frequent collaborator on Mobility Lab technology programs, and Chris Barnes of FixWMATA.com (on the right) were leaving a session at TransportationCamp DC on how to improve real-time transit information when Mobility Lab TV‘s cameras caught up with them. Kurt was concerned about transit agencies losing faithful customers when their real-time bus and train [...]

by Paul Mackie
Transit Tech
Kimberly Powell TransportationCamp 2012 featured

What Goes On at TransportationCamp: The Videos

Thursday, January 10, 2013 10:06 AM

A taste of last year’s TransportationCamp Washington DC. Be sure and check out all the details about this year’s event here. First up, Lilly Shoup from the U.S. Department of Transportation organized a session called Transportation Policy 101, which consisted mostly of the very “unconference” format of chatting with like-minded people without the formalities of [...]

by Paul Mackie
Mobility Lab Releases
Phil Carter at TransportationCamp DC 2012 featured

Transit Tech Ready for Center Stage at TransportationCamp DC This Saturday

Tuesday, January 8, 2013 4:49 PM

Commuters in Washington D.C., Virginia, and Maryland are lucky to have so many options to get around the area. But it doesn’t happen without hard work behind the scenes. That’s where events like this Saturday’s 2nd Annual TransportationCamp Washington DC 2013 step in. There will be hundreds of really smart people joining together to generate [...]

by Chris Hamilton
Toolkit
Chris Hamilton Mobility Video

The Personal Benefits of “Mobility Management”

Monday, December 17, 2012 12:21 PM

“Mobility management” is, from a personal perspective, about accessibility. It’s about having travel options that are superior to driving alone. For an individual, mobility management has a lot of benefits. You can save a lot of money. Often, you can also save time. You might save on the stress of getting caught in traffic. There’s [...]

by Chris Hamilton

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