On November 18–20, 2004, the Transportation Research Board (TRB) convened a Conference on Research on Women’s Issues in Transportation in Chicago, Illinois. The conference—TRB’s third held on this subject—was sponsored by the following agencies, organizations, and companies with an interest in advancing the understanding of women’s issues in transportation: TRB; the Office of Planning, Office of Interstate and Border Planning, and Office of Transportation Policy Studies of the Federal Highway Administration; the Department for Transport, United Kingdom; the Michigan Department of Transportation; General Motors Corporation; the Iowa Department of Transportation; the New Mexico Department of Transportation; the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; the Federal Transit Administration; the Maritime Administration; the Washington State Department of Transportation; and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Approximately 120 individuals from across the transportation research community—at national, state, regional, and local levels and from the public and private sectors and academia—participated. An unusual number of international participants attended, including individuals from the United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cameroon, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and Burkina Faso. This event followed two earlier conferences on women’s issues in transportation, the first of which was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation in 1978. Attendees at that groundbreaking conference were predominantly researchers and scholars. By the time the second conference was held in 1996, concerns about women’s issues had moved well beyond the research community into policy making and the planning and engineering processes. The second conference, sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, was organized by the Drachman Institute of the University of Arizona and by Morgan State University. The third conference has continued the trend of expanding the sponsorship, breadth of topics covered, and participants’ backgrounds. This conference had two primary objectives: (a) to identify and explore additional research and data needed to inform transportation policy decisions that address women’s mobility, safety, and security needs and (b) to encourage research by young researchers. TRB assembled a committee, appointed by the National Research Council, to organize and develop the conference program. The committee members, who are listed on page ii, possessed expertise in the wide range of transportation topics that affect women’s travel. The committee selected four subject areas as a basis for organizing the conference, and four committee members assumed responsibility as the topic leaders, as follows: • Understanding Travel Issues—Sandra Rosenbloom, committee chair; • Transportation, Access, and Community Design— Susan L. Handy; • Injury Prevention and Ergonomics—Susan A. Ferguson; and • Policy and Planning—Michael D. Meyer. After identifying the four main topic areas listed above, the committee issued a call for abstracts. The process for soliciting and conducting peer reviews of full papers to be presented at the conference is described later in this preface. Topic leaders drew on information and findings in the papers to be presented at the conference, together with their own extensive knowledge, to prepare an overview paper to frame the issues within their respective topic areas and to summarize the findings of the accepted papers. The overview papers were peer reviewed and are published in Volume 1 of these proceedings. (Author/publisher) This report is available at http://www.trb.org/publications/conf/CP35v1.pdf For Volume 2, see http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/conf/CP35v2.pdf
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