Abstract:
This issue contains 13 papers concerned with environmental justice, social factors and gender-related issues in transportation. Specific topics discussed include the following: impact of environmental justice on transportation; spatial analysis of income disparities in pedestrian safety in northern New Jersey; activity-based travel models and transportation equity analysis; automobile ownership and travel by the poor; poverty, employment, earnings, job search, and commuting behavior of persons with disabilities and African-Americans in New Jersey; identification of mobility-impaired persons and their travel behavior; neighborhood crime influence on mode choice; decomposing young Germans' altered car use patterns; heterogeneity in correlates of motorized and nonmotorized travel in Germany; gender differences in response to policies targeting commute to an automobile-restricted central business district; attracting students to transportation engineering careers; the service needs of pregnant air passengers; and environmental justice in transportation decision making with structured public involvement.
