TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2163 includes 15 papers that explore issues related to social, environmental, and economic sustainability. This issue of the TRR also includes Martin Wachs’ 2010 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture, which considers the history and future of transportation policy as it relates to poverty and sustainability. Specific topics examined in TRR No. 2143 include equity implications of alternative transportation financing strategies; travel behavior patterns of different socially disadvantaged groups; American women's time use; minority civil rights and environmental justice in service delivery and reductions; measuring the jobs–housing balance; potential inequities of climate change abatement policies; transport demand management; transfer of innovative sustainability policies between cities; sustainable transport measures for a small town; green credits versus environmentally sustainable traffic operations; application of data envelopment analysis to environmentally sustainable transport policies; carbon dioxide emissions reduction; impact of transport infrastructure on firm formation; and the impact of foreign aid on local institutional systems. (Author/publisher)
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