The Standing Technical Committee on Women’s Issues in Transportation became a formal committee in 2000, after its earlier inception as a subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Safety Data, Analysis, and Evaluation in 1994. That subcommittee, originally led by Carol Popkin and later by Gloria Jeff and Susan Herbel, applied for and was granted Task Force status in 1997. The Task Force recommended the formation of the TRB standing committee on women’s issues in transportation. There was opposition to cre…
