"Global transportation networks and the climate are both facing a "demographic time bomb" as Baby Boomers age out of driving - and America needs to act particularly fast and embrace solutions to the converging crises that decenter cars, according to a team of built environment experts. International engineering and architecture firm Sidara recently sounded the alarm about the coming wave of people around the world aging past 60 years old - a group that will likely double between now and 2050. And that could have particularly big implications for the fight to stop climate change, as the group pointed out at a presentation at November's COP30 in Brazil."
"[We emphasized the need to] reframe the global population's aging as a catalyst for effective, positive change," Balsam Nehme, Sidara's group executive director for Sustainability and Implementation said. "Investments in sustainable mobility today will allow cities to secure a higher quality of life for all of the generations tomorrow - and today is the moment for those cities, policymakers, and industry leaders to work together to deliver those inclusive, sustainable mobility solutions that will serve the people of all ages."
Baby Boomers aging out of driving will create major challenges for transportation systems and climate goals as the global over-60 population is projected to double by 2050. Aging populations can be reframed as a catalyst for change through investments in sustainable, inclusive mobility that maintain quality of life across generations. Mid-century population growth drove autocentric infrastructure and highway expansion in the U.S., embedding car dependence in many communities. About 10,000 Baby Boomers turn 65 daily in the U.S., with all reaching 65 by 2030, producing rapid declines in driving and urgent need for people-focused transport solutions.
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