Research On Womens Issues In Transportation

Women's Issues in Transportation: Summary of the 4th International Conference, Volume 2: Technical Papers includes 27 full peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the October 2009 conference. The conference highlighted the latest research on changing demographics that affect transportation planning, programming, and policy making, as well as the latest research on crash and injury prevention for different segments of the female population. Special attention was given to pregnant and elderly transportation users, efforts to better address and increase women's personal security when using various modes of transportation, and the impacts of extreme events such as hurricanes and earthquakes on women's mobility and that of those for whom they are responsible. TRB's Conference Proceedings 46: Women's Issues in Transportation, Volume 1: Conference Overview and Plenary Papers includes an overview of the October 2009 conference and six commissioned resource papers, including the two keynote presentations.

"September 27-30, 2009. Irvine, California"--Title page.

The 5th WIiT Conference was organized around the general idea of “bridging the gap” in an effort to identify and address issues specific to women’s use and involvement in the transportation system and to ensure that transportation systems meet women’s needs. The conference provided an international forum for information sharing and for presenting the latest research findings and policy analyses. The aim was to build on the research on women's transportation issues that has been developed over the past decades, and to broaden its perspective by considering women’s issues in transportation with a more balanced perspective - i.e. of women not just as passive recipients of transport services, but as actors in sustainable access and safe mobility research, policy development, governance and oversight, service delivery and business expansion. Additionally, the conference aimed to identify future research needs. The Conference focused on four pillars: (1) Transport Policy, Transport Patterns and Mobility; (2) Health, Safety and Personal Security; (3) Sustainability; (4) Transportation Impacts on Careers and Careers Impacts on Transportation. In addition, three cross-cutting issues were considered: (a) gender research issues; (b) achieving the full traction of research findings into policy making; and (c) narrowing the gap between developed countries and developing countries with respect to women’s issues in transportation. The conference was organized in conjunction and concurrent with the Transport Research Arena Conference (TRA).