The Women's Travel Issues Second National Conference was held in Baltimore in October 1996. 
The conference was funded by the Federal Highway Administration and organized by the Drachman Institute of the University of Arizona in cooperation with Morgan State University. In addition to bringing together the latest research on women's travel issues from a number of disciplines, the Conference was structured to alert policymakers and planners of the need to pay serious attention to the very real differences in the travel behavior and patterns of men and women, and among subgroups of women.

The Conference focused on the latest research in many areas which was addressed in the first conference in 1978. Current reseach continues to show major differences in the travel patterns of men and women. At the same time, research suggest that there are substantial differences among subgroups of women, which may be greater than aggregate differences among subgroups.

The Conference brought together a series of thoughtful and often challenging papers that identified differences in the patterns of women and men over time, evaluated the potential planning and policy implications of those differences, and presented decisionmakers and planners with a coherent view of the interlinked transportation, economic, social, environmental, and land use constraints facing women and their families.

Below, is a series of peer-reviewed papers presented at the Conference that fall into nine substantive categories, plus Poster Sessions which contains brief abstracts of research presented at the Conference. The Proceedings conclude with the Research Agenda developed by the Steering Committe and Conference participants. Research topics in need of exploration were identified for future focus.