Women’s Issues in Transportation: Summary of the 4th International Conference, Volume 1: Conference Overview and Plenary Papers (2011) / Chapter Skim
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41 Women's Travel Issues Creating Knowledge, Improving Policy, and Making Change Martin Wachs, Transportation, Space, and Technology, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California Since the first conference more than 30 years ago, the study of gender and transportation has become a legitimate focus of research. The transportation community has developed a deeper understanding of relationships between gender, travel, and many ways in which they are linked; however, major knowledge gaps remain that are deeply in need of research.
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42 WoMen'S ISSueS In TRAnSPoRTATIon, voluMe 1 It is well known to many of you that in the 1970s, when the concept of a conference on women's travel issues was put forward, it was ridiculed as frivolous and used as an example of absurd wastefulness of public resources. Thanks to the leadership of some of the women who continue to shape this field and who are here with us again, and thanks to the intervention of some senior national figures -- men and women -- the first conference was held.
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43WoMen'S TRAvel ISSueS insights froM history In the 1830s, the first horse-drawn "omnibuses" were introduced into commercial service in France, and soon they were imitated in many world capitals and major cities, including london; Stockholm, Sweden; new York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Boston, Massachusetts. From limited but persuasive documentation, we know that the responses were similar in many cities.
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44 WoMen'S ISSueS In TRAnSPoRTATIon, voluMe 1 it. Giving high priority to environmental quality and tying the prospect for social mobility more explicitly to the quality of the physical environment than we might today, she advocated that transportation policy be used to promote suburbanization and the lowering of urban densities.
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45WoMen'S TRAvel ISSueS As the subject matter of gender and transportation has developed deeper and more refined pictures of travel and related traffic safety patterns of men and women in the most economically developed urban areas using more deeply focused data analyses, we have also started to recognize concerns that have not been nearly as well addressed by the existing literature. These include many important questions that remain largely unanswered.
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46 WoMen'S ISSueS In TRAnSPoRTATIon, voluMe 1 has knowledge about travel patterns and choices. There also are some increasingly well-understood relationships between traffic safety, crash rates, injuries, deaths, and gender.
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47WoMen'S TRAvel ISSueS the interaction between gender, mobility, race, and ethnicity. uncovering the layers of history, we learn that some of the folk heroes linking gender and mobility were people from racial and ethnic minority groups and from communities having lower economic status.
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48 WoMen'S ISSueS In TRAnSPoRTATIon, voluMe 1 international conference was held, but it should today be an obvious dimension of our curiosity about gender roles in relation to travel and transportation. Need for Broad Syntheses While there have been many insightful and informative studies of gender issues related to travel patterns and traffic safety, as well as some interesting historical studies, there have been few broad syntheses linking these different thematic areas.
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49WoMen'S TRAvel ISSueS Wachs, M Autos, Transit, and the Sprawl of los Angeles: 4.
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