Women’s Issues in Transportation: Summary of the 4th International Conference, Volume 2: Technical Papers (2011) / Chapter Skim
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154 A Commitment to Continue? Comparing Women and Men Commuters Who Choose Transit over Driving Alone Jane Gould and Jiangping Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles This study tracks results from an employer-sponsored travel reduction program to explore whether there are gender-related differences in how men and women select and use public transit.
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155COMPARiNG WOMEN AND MEN COMMUTERS WHO CHOOSE TRANSiT in July 2008 gasoline prices reached nearly $4.60 a gallon in California, and most employees were attracted to the program so that they could mitigate the fuel costs, as well as the cost of monthly parking, which was about $70. However, many participants cited a secondary reason for enrolling: they wanted to explore new travel modes without risking their parking allocation.
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156 WOMEN'S ISSUES IN TRANSPORTATION, VOLUME 2 alternative modes because driving helped them serve family needs and responsibilities. Their data show that having an automobile is important to employed women, particularly those with lower incomes.
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157COMPARING WOMEN AND MEN COMMUTERS WHO CHOOSE TRANSIT there are suggestions that gender differences did influence who volunteered to give up their SOV commute. First, there was no statistical difference in income levels, and on the basis of the university workforce report, it appears that the majority of participants, both men and women, came from administrative jobs and hospital support functions (21)
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158 WOMEN'S ISSUES IN TRANSPORTATION, VOLUME 2 The median length from home to work was found to be 10 mi, by applying the shortest path function in TransCAD. Additional travel information is reported in Table 3.
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159COMPARiNG WOMEN AND MEN COMMUTERS WHO CHOOSE TRANSiT predicTinG The TransiT–sov choice Many factors were reviewed, and a smaller set was then identified, which it was expected might predict whether users continued to commute via transit or switched back to driving, particularly geographic influences (22)
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160 WOMEN'S iSSUES iN TRANSPORTATiON, vOLUME 2 respondent drove to work at least twice a week throughout the trial. For women, there was more modest improvement, from a baseline classification of 61% to 66%.
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161COMPARiNG WOMEN AND MEN COMMUTERS WHO CHOOSE TRANSiT mute trips, but others tried it for other types of travel. Although there are differences, what this population shares in common is that they all owned vehicles and for transit companies, they are so-called choice commuters.
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162 WOMEN'S iSSUES iN TRANSPORTATiON, vOLUME 2 2. Cooper, C
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