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WOMEN'S TRAVEL ISSUES: RESEARCH NEEDS AND PRIORITIES

The papers and speeches appearing in this volume were delivered at the Conference on Women's Travel Issues, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation and held at the National Academy of Sciences in September 1978. The Conference was organized in response to two different yet intertwined planning and research issues. The first issue was a concern over the way current and future transportation programs and facilities do and will affect women and their needs. The second issue was the need to predict travel behavior and to better our methods of predicting which individual differences in and among groups of people lead to differences in travel behavior. Both issues were rooted in empirical findings that the current travel patterns and attitudes of women were noticeably different from those of men. Both issues also grew from the need to understand the impact of governmental transportation programs on various groups in society and to evaluate those programs in terms of effectiveness and equity. The Conference was designed as a research Conference; to analyze the extent and value of current research on women's travel issues and to propose additional research where warranted. Therefore, a strong attempt was made to focus the Conference on the second issue, the prediction of travel behavior: to consider how the growing involvement of women in the paid labor force and the increasing number of female headed families would impact the complex relationship of employment opportunities, residential location choice, and travel behavior. Most of the women's concerns that could be raised as equity issues were deliberately excluded because they were so often linked with demands for political action rather than for additional research. (Author)

  • Supplemental Notes:
    • The Conference on Women's Travel Issues sponsored by the Office of University Research, Department of Transportation and the Committee on Transportation of the National Research Council, was held at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., September 17-20, 1978.
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  • Features: Figures; References; Tables;
  • Pagination: 791 p.

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  • Accession Number: 00367457
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
  • Files: TRIS, USDOT
  • Created Date: Dec 30 1982 12:00AM