Mobility Lab Express newsletter

Mobility Lab Express #14 – May 15, 2013 (PDF) Mobility Lab’s brand new Transportation Cost-Savings Calculator is featured. Our research teams are developing a calculation method to estimate, monetize, and communicate the return on investment from “transportation demand management” programs.

Mobility Lab Express #13 – May 1, 2013 (PDF) With communities around the world realizing that shifting from a car culture to healthier alternatives, walking is increasingly becoming a real commuter choice. In the U.S., there was a 6 percent increase over the past 5 years in adults who walk for transportation, fun, or exercise, according to [...]

Mobility Lab Express #12 – April 15, 2013 (PDF) Last week’s Mobility Lab symposium, Transportation Solutions for Aging in Auto-centric America, offered successes and challenges. Finding mobility solutions for our older adult population is not easy, given that our country is built largely for the automobile.

Mobility Lab Express #11 – April 1, 2013 (PDF) “Mobility management strategies” work. For example, Airlines Reporting Corporation was recently recognized as a “bike-friendly company.” But beyond the accolades, these strategies, which are frequently very inexpensive and can usually be easy to implement, offer a lot of bang for their buck in building happy and healthy work [...]

Mobility Lab Express #10 – March 15, 2013 (PDF) Mobility Lab has three major tenets as foundations to our work: Research, Communication, and Collaboration. Through our collaborative endeavors, we realize great things are possible when working with good partners to share knowledge, labor, and creativity. As you can see by reading this week’s Express, we have a [...]

Mobility Lab Express #9 – March 1, 2013 (PDF) What room is there for mobility-management professionals if individuals can access transportation information on their mobile devices? What will be the future need for human professionals in this realm of education and encouragement? One of the many questions we ponder in this edition of Mobility Lab Express.

Mobility Lab Express #8 – February 15, 2013 (PDF) Much of the discussion happening now in state houses across the country focuses on raising enough revenue for skyrocketing highway maintenance and construction costs to accommodate projections for ever increasing automobile travel. However, we believe that we cannot simply (and expensively) pave our way out of the traffic [...]

Mobility Lab Express #7 – February 1, 2013 (PDF) Mobility Lab began less than two years ago as a start-up focused on better transportation options that in turn create better lifestyles. We have a come a long way and are proud that our list of contributors keeps growing. This issue celebrates them.

Mobility Lab Express #6 – January 15, 2013 (PDF) This issue features the 2nd Annual TransportationCamp DC, held this past Saturday. With just about every one of the 300-plus people in attendance agreeing that the event was phenomenal, there is little reason to cover much else this issue.

Mobility Lab Express #5 – January 1, 2013 (PDF) Entering 2013, there are a lot of questions on Capitol Hill in regards to transportation policy. How will the fiscal cliff affect transit funding? What directions will the new leadership of the House Transportation Committee take? How can officials implement bikesharing systems more formally into their [...]

Mobility Lab Express #4 – December 15, 2012 (PDF) This issue, we look inside the Mobility Lab Toolbox, which provides insight into how Arlington County, Virginia and Washington D.C. have implemented transportation-oriented development that works and can easily be replicated.  

Mobility Lab Express #3 – December 1, 2012 (PDF) Highlighting some of the great stories from Hack Day, this month’s Mobility Lab Express is focused on key connections between transportation options and technological choice.

Mobility Lab Express #2 – November 15, 2012 (PDF) This issue of Mobility Lab Express is focused on key connections between transportation options and energy and the environment.

Mobility Lab Express #1 – November 1, 2012 (PDF) The first issue of Mobility Lab Express is focused on how transportation options can lead to economic prosperity, especially when integrated with intelligent land use and design.