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From page 78... ... 78 Her Money or Her Time A Gendered View of Contemporary Transport Policy Genevieve Giuliano and lisa Schweitzer, School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California This paper reports on recent research and trends for women's transportation policy and planning in the united States. From among the wide range of factors that influence outcomes for women in cities, the authors focus on two key areas of major contemporary change in transportation policy: public transit and transportation finance. Read the entire page →
From page 79... ... of the tension between time caring and time earning, anything that increases the monetary cost of mobility is likely to affect single mothers disproportionately, as is anything that increases the time it takes to get around. While single mothers have become ubiquitous symbols of social inequality on the roads, few if any real changes have occurred within either policy or planning to grapple specifically with the demands of women's mobility (Wekerle 2005) Read the entire page →
From page 80... ... 80 WoMen'S ISSueS In TRAnSPoRTATIon, voluMe 1 reduction in manufacturing employment as well as a bifurcation of service work into high-paying, whitecollar jobs and much lower-paying "pink"-collar jobs and low-skill service work. The latter are likely to have much lower wages and access to employment benefits at the same time that the u.S. Read the entire page →
From page 81... ... 81HeR MoneY oR HeR TIMe and child care tasks that could be more flexibly scheduled, such as lawn care, auto maintenance, and playing games or sports with children. This was true even for households without children. Read the entire page →
From page 82... ... 82 WoMen'S ISSueS In TRAnSPoRTATIon, voluMe 1 In a recent review of more than 70 studies on the incidence of gas taxes, congestion tolls, emissions fees, vMT fees, and carbon taxes, Schweitzer found that only a handful of these studies in any way accounted for potential differences within income classes by gender or by race (l. Schweitzer, "An overview of existing and emerging Transportation Finance Instruments and Their effect on low-Income Groups," unpublished work) Read the entire page →
From page 83... ... 83HeR MoneY oR HeR TIMe cost women in terms of earnings or prestige at work. In addition to gender, family structure influenced the adoption of congestion mitigation strategies, with the results mirroring the findings from labor economics in terms of household time allocations. Read the entire page →
From page 84... ... 84 WoMen'S ISSueS In TRAnSPoRTATIon, voluMe 1 alone, and taxes. This area represents a fertile ground for research. Read the entire page →
From page 85... ... 85HeR MoneY oR HeR TIMe commuter rail. Persons in low-income households (less than $20,000 per year) Read the entire page →
From page 86... ... 86 WoMen'S ISSueS In TRAnSPoRTATIon, voluMe 1 2003. Transit market share increased in eight of these metropolitan areas and decreased in all others (Public Purpose, n.d.) Read the entire page →
From page 87... ... 87HeR MoneY oR HeR TIMe have shown that transit access has little or no impact on employment outcomes (e.g., Sanchez et al. 2004; Transportation Research Board 2009) Read the entire page →
From page 88... ... 88 WoMen'S ISSueS In TRAnSPoRTATIon, voluMe 1 transit-oriented development or shifts in travel behavior that are essential for reducing congestion, emissions, and energy use. In a recent paper, Giuliano and Agarwal (2009) Read the entire page →
From page 89... ... 89HeR MoneY oR HeR TIMe sistent with women's constrained daily activity patterns. However, if women use travel resources to optimize activities, whether they be the better job, school, soccer league, park, dentist, or movie theater, the resulting travel outcomes are efficient for the individual. Read the entire page →
From page 90... ... 90 WoMen'S ISSueS In TRAnSPoRTATIon, voluMe 1 to concerns about air pollution, urban decline, environmental justice, energy efficiency, and now global climate change. As noted at the start of this paper, vMT reduction captures much of the essence of transportation planning objectives. Read the entire page →
From page 91... ... 91HeR MoneY oR HeR TIMe In Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1756, TRB, national Research Council, Washington, D.C., pp. Read the entire page →
From page 92... ... 92 WoMen'S ISSueS In TRAnSPoRTATIon, voluMe 1 Trends. Institute of Transportation Studies, university of California, Berkeley. Read the entire page →
From page 93... ... 93HeR MoneY oR HeR TIMe Rietveld, P., F Bruinsma, and D Read the entire page →

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... 78 Her Money or Her Time A Gendered View of Contemporary Transport Policy Genevieve Giuliano and lisa Schweitzer, School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California This paper reports on recent research and trends for women's transportation policy and planning in the united States. From among the wide range of factors that influence outcomes for women in cities, the authors focus on two key areas of major contemporary change in transportation policy: public transit and transportation finance.