Conference on Women's Transportation Issues planned for 2004

The Third Conference for Research on Women's Transportation Issues, sponsored by the Transportation Research Board (TRB), will be held in Chicago in November 2004. The conference will review topics related to women's travel patterns, needs, and behavior, focusing specifically on data-driven comparative analyses of men's and women's travel patterns and security risks over time, various subgroups of women, and women in different countries.

Topics slated for discussion include older women's travel patterns, women's involvement in transportation planning, and differential impacts of public policies and programs. Participants will include decisionmakers from the public and private sectors working at all levels of government and from diverse geographic areas. Other attendees will include funding agencies, policy analysts, and researchers in the fields of psychology, geography, public administration, and urban design.

To access the conference Web site, visit www.trb.org/Conferences/2004WomensTransportationIssues.pdf.

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