Download or read book Environmental Justice, Social Factors, and Gender-related Issues in Transportation, 2012 written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."--TRID abstract.