68.8
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47.4
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Livability Index: Transportation
The AARP Livability Index transportation component measures metrics and policies related to convenience, safety, and options. In ranking statewide transportation factors, the Scorecard scores statewide transportation scores, and through our approach to equity can score each state’s lowest performing group among each state’s most heavily white, Black, Hispanic, and Asian neighborhoods. The District of Columbia, Rhode Island, and Montana had the best statewide transportation scores, while 5 of the 6 lowest scoring states were in the Southeast: Alabama Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
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Methodology
Methodology
The Livability Index Transportation category score is a composite score of 11 indicators (7 metrics, 4 policies) in the AARP Livability Index:
Metrics
- Frequency of local transit service
- ADA-accessible stations and vehicles
- Walk trips
- Congestion
- Household transportation costs
- Speed limits
- Crash rate
Policies
- State and local Complete Streets policies
- State human services transportation coordination
- State volunteer driver policies
- State and local plans to create age-friendly communities
Equity adjustment:
The top 10% of all neighborhoods (census block groups) in each state with nonzero population with the highest percentage of population that is Asian, Black, Hispanic, and White were identified. For some states, more than 10% of non-zero-population block groups were 100% white; in these states all such block groups were included.
The Transportation category score for each 10% selection of block groups was then calculated using the exact same methodology used to calculate Livability Index scores at other geographies, which is a population-weighted average of all component block groups. Category scores for the state and each 10% selections are displayed. For the equity adjusted metric score, the lowest of the four 10% selections is scored and ranked.
AARP Public Policy Institute (2023). Calculations based on AARP Livability Index Neighborhood Level Scores (unpublished).
Underlying data from: US Environmental Protection Agency, US Federal Transit Authority, US Federal Highway Administration, Texas Transportation Institute, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Data analyzed/complied by: AARP Public Policy Institute (https://www.aarp.org/ppi/) for AARP Livability Index (https://livabilityindex.aarp.org/)