Mobility Matters
The future is quickly approaching. Know what's coming before it's here.
Planning: Traditional transportation planning has focused almost exclusively on reducing traffic congestion, which necessarily meant that dollars went primarily to expanding road infrastructure capacity to meet peak load requirements. In this session, we will discuss why this approach limits choice, increases the cost of living to households, and underutilizes the economic potential of land development. Along the way, learn how the Center for Neighborhood Technology’s Housing and Transportation (H+T) Affordability Index works and discuss some examples of how communities across the country are starting to use the Index to build differently.
Providers: The concept of mobility management continues to gain momentum across the state and nationally. This session will feature a panel of mobility managers discussing how they help coordinate transportation in their community. The session will also include a discussion of Iowa’s new Non-Emergency Medicaid Transportation Brokerage. Presenters included:
