Research on Women's Issues in Transportation, Volume 1: Conference Overview and Plenary Papers (2006)

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59 APPENDIX A Conference Committee Biographical Information Sandra Rosenbloom, Chair, is professor of planning and director of the Roy P. Drachman Institute for Land and Regional Development Studies at the University of Ari- zona. Her current research interests are the safety, trans- portation, mobility, and land use implications of societal changes including the changing role of women and the growth of an aging population; public transit planning; and the role of private transport options in urban and rural transportation systems. Dr. Rosenbloom has been active with the Transportation Research Board and is currently on its Women’s Issues in Transportation Com- mittee and in the American Planning Association, Amer- ican Collegiate Schools of Planning, and Women’s Transportation Seminar. Susan A. Ferguson is senior vice president for research at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, where she has worked since 1991. She has conducted research in many highway safety areas, with an emphasis on child occupant protection, vehicle safety issues, young and older drivers, and alcohol and driving. Dr. Ferguson has published more than 80 scientific papers. She chairs the Blue Ribbon Panel on Advanced Airbags and serves on various advisory boards including Partners for Child Passenger Safety Advisory Board, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Advisory Board. She serves on the Transportation Research Board Committees on Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Transportation and on Women’s Issues in Trans- portation and on the TRB-NRC Committee for Review of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Intelligent Vehicle Initiative, Phase 2. Susan L. Handy is associate professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. She held the positions of assistant and associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the Community and Regional Planning Program of the School of Architecture. She is chair of TRB’s Telecom- munications and Travel Behavior Committee and a member of TRB’s Transportation and Land Develop- ment Committee. From 1996 to 1998, she chaired the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Project Panel H-12 on Integrated Urban Models for Simulation of Transit and Land Use Policies. Dr. Handy has con- ducted extensive research on a wide variety of issues relating to the social and community impacts of trans- portation policy, planning, and design and has authored a great many articles and research reports in these and related areas. Dr. Handy holds a bachelor of science and engineering from Princeton University, a master of sci- ence in resource planning and civil engineering from Stanford University, and a doctorate. in city and regional planning from the University of California at Berkeley, Sara McLafferty is professor of geography at the Univer- sity of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign. Her areas of research and teaching include the geographies of health and health care, urban geography, and spatial analysis methods (geographic information systems). She has examined geographic inequalities in health and social well-being in cities in the United States and the use of spatial analysis methods in modeling and understanding such inequalities. Her research has also explored varia-

tions by race and ethnicity in women’s geographical access to employment opportunities and health and social services. She was a member of the Mapping Sci- ence Committee of the National Academies. Michael D. Meyer has been professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, since 1991. He has written more than 120 technical articles and has authored or coauthored numerous texts on transportation planning and policy. He has served on or chaired many TRB committees relat- ing to public transportation, transportation planning, policy, education, environmental impact analysis, and intermodal transportation. Dr. Meyer is a current mem- ber of the TRB Executive Committee. Laura L. Ray, assistant general manager of the Metro- politan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, has worked for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York, the Metropolitan Transit Authorities of New York and Atlanta, and the National Railroad Passenger Cor- poration (Amtrak). She has been active for many years in the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) and has served as the national association’s president. She has received numerous awards, including recognition from the YWCA, Women Looking Ahead News Magazine, and WTS-Philadelphia (Woman of the Year). Jane C. Stutts is associate director for social and behav- ioral research at the University of North Carolina High- way Safety Research Center, in Chapel Hill. In her 28 years at the Highway Safety Research Center, Dr. Stutts has managed projects in a wide variety of highway safety areas and has authored more than 100 articles and tech- nical reports. Recent research efforts have focused on older drivers, young drivers, driver distraction, drowsy driving, motorcyclist safety, and pedestrian and bicycle safety. Recent projects have been funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Federal High- way Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Dr. Stutts has been an active participant in TRB activi- ties; she has chaired the Bicycling Committee, served as a member of the Safety and Mobility of Older Persons Committee, and also served on several NRC committees dealing with health issues and aging. Beverly G. Ward is research associate and director, Eth- noography and Transport Systems Program, Center for Transportation Research, University of South Florida. Over the past 25 years, she has held the positions of direc- tor for special projects for Family and Child Services in Birmingham, Alabama; Social Worker for the Depart- ment of Human Resources in Birmingham; transporta- tion director for the Office of Senior Citizens’ Activities in Birmingham; and assistant director of the Alabama Tran- sit Association. Dr. Ward has served on TRB’s TCRP Pro- ject Panel B-03, Demand Forecasting for Rural Passenger Transportation, and on Project Panel J-07, Synthesis of Information Related to Transit Problems. She is also a member of TRB’s Women’s Issues in Transportation Committee and cochair of its Mobility Subcommittee and is a member of TRB’s Community Impact Assessment Joint Subcommittee. Dr. Ward has authored and coau- thored articles relating to women and minorities in the public transportation industry and how women and minorities are affected by public transit systems. She has conducted numerous transportation and transit-related research projects for a variety of state and federal agen- cies, including the Florida Department of Transporta- tion, the Federal Highway Administration, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Transporta- tion, and the Miami–Dade County Metropolitan Plan- ning Organization. Dr. Ward holds a B.A. in psychology and film and drama from Vassar College, an M.P.A. in urban planning and design from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a Ph.D. in applied anthro- pology from the University of South Florida, Tampa. 60 RESEARCH ON WOMEN’S ISSUES IN TRANSPORTATION