Americans, interact with each other and the world. There is now little room for doubt: many Americans’ transportation needs and desires are changing. And they are changing fastest among the people who have the most to gain or lose from the investments we make in new transportation infrastructure: the young. This report documents the many ways in which young people are changing their transportation behavior and their desires for the future—and argues that
Transportation and the New Generation
many of those changes are here to stay. An earlier generation of American leaders embraced and worked toward a vision of a more mobile America linked by highways and automobiles. Today, for better and for worse, we are living their legacy. Will America’s policy-makers have the dexterity, the vision and the courage to meet these changing needs—and by so doing, put America on a path to a cleaner, more resilient transportation system that is less dependent on oil?