Environmental Justice, Social Factors, and Gender-Related Issues in Transportation 2012

This issue contains 13 papers concerned with environmental justice, social factors and gender-related issues in transportation. Specific topics discussed include the following: impact of environmental justice on transportation; spatial analysis of income disparities in pedestrian safety in northern New Jersey; activity-based travel models and transportation equity analysis; automobile ownership and travel by the poor; poverty, employment, earnings, job search, and commuting behavior of persons with disabilities and African-Americans in New Jersey; identification of mobility-impaired persons and their travel behavior; neighborhood crime influence on mode choice; decomposing young Germans' altered car use patterns; heterogeneity in correlates of motorized and nonmotorized travel in Germany; gender differences in response to policies targeting commute to an automobile-restricted central business district; attracting students to transportation engineering careers; the service needs of pregnant air passengers; and environmental justice in transportation decision making with structured public involvement.

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• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 118p
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 2320
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: African Americans; Automobile ownership; Automobile travel; Commuting; Crimes; Decision making; Environmental justice; Equity; Gender; Low income groups; Mode choice; Nonmotorized transportation; Passenger service; Pedestrian safety; Persons with disabilities; Pregnant women; Public participation; Social factors; Transportation careers; Transportation disadvantaged persons; Transportation engineering; Transportation planning; Transportation policy; Travel; Travel behavior; Travel patterns; Young adults
• Uncontrolled Terms: Activity-based models; Airline passengers
• Geographic Terms: Germany; New Jersey
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01471224
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309263245
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 1 2013 11:36AM