This Transportation Research Record contains 29 papers on management and public policy. Specific topics discussed include travel behavior and transportation needs of people with disabilities, estimating trip generation of elderly and disabled people, extending older drivers' access to freeways, regional transportation's consensus building between local and tribal governments, using custom transportation data collection software with handheld computers, transportation skills needed by private-sector and public-sector organizations, communication strategies for state transportation research programs, transportation megaprojects, hedonic analysis of impacts of traffic volumes on property values, access to health care and nonemergency medical transportation, gender-based analysis of work trip mode choice of commuters, highway construction impacts on businesses, distributional consequences of gasoline taxation, commuting stress, urban campers, a sustainable transportation system, optimal land use-transport strategies, using environmental justice to evaluate the equitable distribution of a transit capital improvement program, strategic innovations in railroad management, collaboration for success in transportation, performance measures for surface transportation in different institutional and cultural contexts, performance measurement responses to changing political pressures at state departments of transportation, linking asset management to strategic planning processes, risk-based life-cycle cost analysis of privatized infrastructure, work site trip reduction model, effectiveness of programs for work site trip reduction, vanpool services, an ecotravel coordinator program, and investment analysis using the constraint multiobjective programming method. For some abstracts of the papers presented in this Record, see C 50284 - C 50302.
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