Call for Papers
91st TRB Annual Meeting
January 22- 26, 2012
Washington, DC
The TRB Committee on Women's Issues in Transport, [ABE70] invites you to submit papers for the upcoming TRB Annual Meeting in 2012.
Papers are invited on the topics of:
• Women as facilitators of transportation for others, e.g. driving children to school and elderly parents to medical appointments;
• Issues related to children’s transportation to school;
• Women’s travel behavior and extreme events (natural and man-made);
• Women’s access to health services;
• Safety issues for pregnant women;
• Putting People and Innovation to Work (conference theme)
--In particular how this relates to women in the 21st century
• Gender and recent changes in travel behavior (less driving and more transit use)
• Women and the use of Alternative Modes of Transportation
Papers should discuss these topics from the viewpoint of gender. Other transportation topics related to emerging or established women's issues in transportation will also be considered for presentation.
Please indicate ABE70 on the Submission Review form to indicate that the paper is being submitted in response to this call for papers.
Papers for the 2012 Annual Meeting must be submitted electronically no later than August 1, 2011. Papers cannot be accepted after August 1, 2011 because of the time required for peer review and program development. Paper submission information is posted on the TRB website http://www.TRB.org/Meeting<http://www.trb.org/Meeting>.
In addition, authors who have submitted papers are requested to send the paper number and title to the TRB Committee on Women's Issues in Transport by August 3, 2011 to Lisa Weston by email at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
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