Changing Travel Patterns of Older Women: Policy, Safety and Mobility
Geiska Baker is the author of this edited transcription of Dr. Sandra Rosenbloom’s presentation at the CRP Department on May 11, 2006. Dr. Rosenbloom thesis is that transportation planning must meet different needs from different users, and be able to respond to market segmentation. She discussed the importance of identifying the travel patterns of older women in planning for an aging population and presented research information from the US and Great Britain Sandra Rosenbloom, Ph.D., is professor of planning, natural renewable resources, gerontology and women studies at the University of Arizona. She was the director of the Drachman Institute for Land and Regional Development Studies, a research and public service unit of the university (1990-2004). Geiska Baker is a graduate student of the MCRP program. There is a potpourri of transportation issues facing older-people; but more particularly older women because they face different problems and have different resources than older men. In general, there are very few older women in comparable positions to older men. Older men are more advantaged in a number of ways and this is revealed in their travel patterns, mobility patterns and general life style.