tailieunhanh - World Transport, Policy & Practice Volume 18.2 April 2012

And this gap only widens over the course of women’s careers, in part because women are more likely to take time away from work to care for their families. As men gain experience in the labor force, their wage gains typically exceed those experienced by women. In 2011, for example, a typical 25 year-old woman working full-time, year-round will have already earned $5,000 less than a typical 25 year-old man. If that woman faces the same wage gaps at each age that existed in 2011, then by age 35, she will have earned $33,600 less than a typical. | World Transport Policy Practice Volume April 2012 Eco-Logica Ltd. ISSN 1352-7614 2012 Eco-Logica Ltd. Editor Professor John Whitelegg Stockholm Environment Institute at York University of York York YO10 SYW Editorial Board Professor Helmut Holzapfel Universitat Kassel Fachbereich 06 - Architektur Stadt- und Landschaftsplanung AG Integrierte Verkehrsplanung Gottschalkstra e 28 D-34127 Kassel GERMANY Eric Britton Managing Director EcoPlan International The Centre for Technology Systems Studies 8 10 rue Joseph Bara F-75006 Paris FRANCE Paul Tranter School of Physical Environmental Mathematical Sciences University of New South Wales Australian Defence Force Academy Canberra ACT 2600 AUSTRALIA Publisher Eco-Logica Ltd. 53 Derwent Road Lancaster LA1 3ES Telephone 44 0 1524 63175 E-mail http Contents Editorial Introduction 3 Abstracts Keywords 5 Cycling Trends and Policies in the Washington DC Region 6 Ralph Buehler Andrea Hamre Dan Sonenklar and Paul Goger Rail Freight Services Policy and Practice 30 Marin Marinov Tom Zunder and Phil Mortimer 2 World Transport Policy and Practice Volume April 2012 Editorial In March this year approximately 70 transport professionals and politicians met in Bremen for the final conference of the EU funded CARE project Note 1 . Bremen was a very fitting location for a conference dedicated to sensible practical intelligent and creative approaches to delivering a transport system and a new approach to mobility that can meet the challenges and tasks associated with carbon reduction. Bremen has a long history of careful and coordinated transport policy interventions that actually work. The Bremen approach is characterised by actually doing things rather than talking about the possibility of doing things and this deserves widespread acclaim. When the history of automobility and transport policy is properly documented one of the key findings will be the discovery of an .