How to Apply Gender Equality Goals in Transport and Infrastructure Planning

Levin, Lena; Faith-Ell, Charlotta

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“…The primacy of forecasts (based on existing travel patterns) and technical models rule the roost and even when certain trends like 'women exhibiting more sustainable travel behavior than men' [9,10] are established, the prevailing norms of the sector simply do not allow for alternate ways of planning to emerge [11]. Even in societies with a firm agenda on gender equality like Sweden, research suggests that decisions on infrastructure investments and processes followed to reach these decisions are rarely in sync with the broad goals specified in the official documents [12].…”

Section: Women Development and Transportmentioning

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Addressing the Linkages between Gender and Transport in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Uteng

Turner²

2019

Sustainability

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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) specifies gender equality and sustainable development as their two central priorities. An area of critical importance for sustainable and gender-fair development is mobility and transport, which has so far been neglected and downplayed in research and policy making both at the national and global levels. Rooted in the history of the topic and the emerging ideas on smart, green and integrated transport, this paper presents a literature review of on gender and transport in the low- and middle-income countries. The paper presents a host of cross-cutting topics with a concentrated focus on spatial and transport planning. The paper further identifies existing research gaps and comments on the new conceptualizations on smart cities and smart mobilities in the Global South. Due attention is paid to intersections and synergies that can be created between different development sectors, emerging transport modes, data and modeling exercises, gender equality and sustainability.

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Section: Women Development and Transportmentioning

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Addressing the Linkages between Gender and Transport in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Uteng

Turner²

2019

Sustainability

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“…Gendered violence is clearly a problem that exceeds any mobility agency. However, the ways in which it affects the mobility preferences of half the population in a community should always be considered during transport and infrastructure planning (Levin and Faith-Ell, 2019).…”

Section: Women’s Mobility Practices In Contemporary Mexico Citymentioning

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A transport of one’s own: Women in contemporary Mexico City’s public transport through the lens of photojournalism

Franco

2023

Urban Studies

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This article proposes the use of photojournalism to understand women’s urban mobility practices in contemporary Mexico City. Throughout the analysis, a variety of issues such as economic violence, time poverty and sexual harassment emerge. In general, the article argues that, by analysing the cultural representations that circulate within different media in a specific social and historical context, particular experiences of urban mobilities are made visible, thereby enriching current urban mobility scholarship. Specifically, the article explores how the analysis of material makes visible the various and distinct encounters that women experience when using public transport in Mexico City. The article makes the case that there is already plenty of scholarship within the humanities and cultural studies that could be integrated into existing research on urban mobility practices, enhancing our understanding of how such practices are distinct in particular locations and time periods, and ultimately helping to achieve a more complex and nuanced understanding of them.

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“…Another set of questions that pandemic commutes bring starkly into view (and feminist transport and mobility geographers have explored for some time) is the problematic separation of the journey to work into its own, highly valued, essential or ‘non‐discretionary’ category, despite its profound entanglements with the equally essential mobilities of unpaid care (Plyushteva & Schwanen 2018 ; Ravensbergen et al, 2020 ; Sanchez de Madariaga & Zucchini 2019 ). Rethinking the relationship between the commute and essential‐ness in transport policy and research is more than a matter of terminology; it has far‐reaching implications for how travel time is valued, and thus for the ways in which transport infrastructure projects are planned and prioritised (Levin & Faith‐Ell, 2019 ).…”

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Essential workers' pandemic mobilities and the changing meanings of the commute

Plyushteva

2022

Geographical Journal

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This commentary reflects on the pandemic commute and its significance for, on one hand, engaging with the problematic category of essential work, and on the other, future geographical research on transport and mobilities. Drawing on essential workers' contributions to the 'Not working from home' public engagement project, I outline some experiences of commuting during the Covid-19 pandemic. I illustrate the role of pandemic commuting in defining, and wrestling with, what the category of essential work might mean. I then discuss the ways in which attending to pandemic commutes may extend and reshape existing research on unequal mobilities. Some of the future research directions made more urgent by a focus on pandemic commutes include critical engagements with first, intersectional inequalities in the journey to work; second, the category of 'essential journeys' as used in transport policy and practice; third, the positionality of academic researchers who work on the topic of commuting; and finally, the treatment of commuting time as an integral part of working time.Funding information: Wellcome Trust [Grant number: 204826/Z/16/Z] Data availability statement: Data available on request due to privacy/ethical restrictions 2 PANDEMIC IM/MOBILITIES In my role as a qualitative transport geographer, I have been doing research on different aspects of commuting for the last ten years. I have often felt exasperated by the view of the commute as a banal, repetitive, universally recognisable experience, the very definition ofThis article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as

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How to Apply Gender Equality Goals in Transport and Infrastructure Planning

Cited by 18 publications

References 18 publications

Addressing the Linkages between Gender and Transport in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Addressing the Linkages between Gender and Transport in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

A transport of one’s own: Women in contemporary Mexico City’s public transport through the lens of photojournalism

Essential workers' pandemic mobilities and the changing meanings of the commute

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