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