M-CASTL Website

Posted 09/27/2007
M-CASTL launches new website

The Michigan Center for Advancing Safe Transportation throughout the Lifespan (M-CASTL) has launched a website at http://m-castl.org. The center's theme is "safety and mobility throughout the lifespan."

M-CASTL will strive to advance expertise and U.S. technology in the many disciplines comprising the safety and mobility of both young people and older adults. This will be achieved through basic and applied research, and by fostering the application of transportation science and technology through education of new professionals and technology transfer to those in transportation-related fields.

Both young people and older adults present unique safety and mobility challenges. M-CASTL will increase understanding of and address — across the different dimensions of the roadway, vehicle, and driver — the risks related to the two ends of the age spectrum. These include:

• The changing perceptual, cognitive, and psychomotor abilities of older drivers to help them maintain safe driving
• The transportation needs of young people and older adults when they are unable or choose not to drive themselves
• The elevated crash risk of young drivers

M-CASTL is the University of Michigan's University Transportation Center, funded by the Research and Innovative Technology Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation.