Understanding Urban Travel Behaviour by Gender for Efficient and Equitable Transport Policies

Abstract

Gender is one of the key socio-demographic variables that can influence travel behaviour, but it is often the least understood. Understanding travel behaviour by gender will help better design transport policies that are efficient and equitable. Due to the gendered division of work in households, women often have multiple tasks and activities. As a result, women are more likely to have shorter commute distances, to chain trips, to have more non-work related trips, to travel at offpeak hours, and to choose more flexible modes. This study examines travel behaviour by gender in eight different cities, across three different continents, focusing on transport mode, trip purpose, travel distance and departure time for Auckland,

A férfiak és nők eltérő közlekedési szokásai Budapesten és annak relevanciája a Budapesti Mobilitási Tervben

“…Egy nyolc városban készített kutatás kimutatta, hogy a városok közül, kettő kivételével, Hanoi, Helsinki, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Lisszabon, Manila esetében is a nők többet használják a közösségi közlekedést, mint a személygépjárművet, míg Dublinban és Aucklandben ez nem így van (Ng -Acker, 2018). A nem szignifikánsabb változó volt az összes esetben, mint a kor vagy a jövedelem.…”

“…A probit regresszió egy olyan nem lineáris elemzés, amelyben egy bináris függő változó valószínűségét számoljuk ki. A regressziós modell nagyban támaszkodik az Ng -Acker (2018) tanulmányában használt egyenletre, azonban a multimodális logisztikus regresszió helyett egy probit regresszióval kerülnek elemzésre az adatok.…”

Women in infrastructure

“…Source: (New South Wales Government, n.d. [85]); (Infrastructure Canada, 2018 [86]); (Government of Canada, 2019[87])  41 Failure to define gender equality targets and weak oversight of infrastructure service delivery can have a negative impact on the successful incorporation of gender considerations throughout the assets' life cycle. The implementation of infrastructure assets can be subject to delays, higher than expected costs and changes to the specification of the investment due to differences from how implementation was planned relative to real life circumstances at the time (OECD, 2020 [48]).…”

Gender-relevance of policies in the OECD Green Recovery Database

“…The gender-relevant measure assessed as likely to have a negative environmental impact is a programme to provide women below the poverty line with free liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders. Despite the negative environmental impact, there are clear gains for women's empowerment as switching to LPG cylinders can provide cleaner cooking facilities compared to using traditional stoves (IEA, 2017 [6]).…”