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From: MissDC-AT-aol.com
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 15:12:36 -0500
Subject: Fwd:Call for Papers Women's Travel Issues


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                         CALL FOR PAPERS

                    SECOND NATIONAL CONFERENCE
                     ON WOMEN'S TRAVEL ISSUES

                        OCTOBER 24-26 1996
                       BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

         Sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration
                                                      with
    Women and Planning Division, American Planning Association

The Second National Conference on Women's Travel Issues is
designed to bring together and synthesize the best work from a
variety of disciplines on the travel patterns, needs, and
attitudes of women and their families, with emphasis on
traditionally under-represented or minority women and households.
The Conference will encourage scholars from different disciplines
and backgrounds to access the relevant work of others, providing
a forum for the evaluation and synthesis of the full body of work
about women's travel patterns.

The focus of the Conference will generally be on comparative and
empirical analyses, that is, studies based on primary data which
compare the behavior or attitudes of men and women, or those that
compare groups of women to one another.  Among the specific
topics which will be covered are:

       women's travel patterns and changes in those patterns
     over time--distance, mode, route, purpose, trip linking

       women's transportation safety issues:  accident and
     injury rates, vehicle and highway design factors,
     technological considerations

       women and the built environment; the transportation
     impacts of changes in residential and employment
     relationships and patterns

       women's lifestyles and their transportation implications:
     single parent households, two worker households, aging
     travelers

       women and urban violence: the transportation implications

       women and the changing economy: the transportation
     effects of de-industrialization, service sector growth, and
     improvements in communication technologies

       women and environmental justice; the distributional
     impact of transportation policies and programs, particularly
     for sub-groups of women

The Conference Steering Committee encourages submissions from
people in any relevant discipline, including but not limited to:
architecture, economics, engineering, geography, gerontology,
planning, psychology, public administration, sociology, and urban
history.  The Committee will consider previously published work
but it must be clearly identified. The Committee also urges those
who have confronted some of the issues above without previously
considering the transportation implications, to now consider if
they could report their research in a way that addresses the
Conference focus.

Those interested in presenting a paper which addresses one or
more of the central Conference--or closely related--issues should
submit a comprehensive abstract to the Steering Committee by:

                MARCH 15, 1996.

The abstract should include a complete description of  a) the
issues to be addressed, b) the data sources and the methods used
to explore those data, c) the (expected) findings, and d) the
implications for transportation research or policy.  Please
include your complete address, title, and affiliation; please
indicate your fax number and e-mail address if possible.

If you submit an abstract you will be notified of the Committee's
decision by May 15; if your abstract is selected, you must
prepare a full paper and submit it to the Steering Committee by
October 1, 1996.  A very limited number of partial travel
scholarships may be available for those presenting papers.

Please mail, fax, or e-mail your abstract to, or request
additional information from:

          Dr. Sandi Rosenbloom, Conference Co-Chair
          819 E. First Street, Tucson, AZ 85721
          (520) 623-1223     (520) 623-1705 (fax)

          Rosenblo-AT-Aruba.CCIT.Arizona.edu







   

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