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70 European Parliament, Directorate General Internal Policies of the Union (2006) Women and Transport , available at: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/dv/tran20060912_womentransportstudy/ tran20060912_womentransportstudy.pdf
71 CIVITAS (2018), Gender equality and mobility: mind the gap , available at: https://civitas.eu/sites/default/files/ civ_pol-an2_m_web.pdf
72 RAMBOLL (2021), Gender and (smart) mobility , available at: https://ramboll.com/-/media/files/rgr/documents/ markets/transport/g/gender-and-mobility_report.pdf
73 NOVICK, N. (2014), Book Review: Fair Shared Cities: The Impact of Gender Planning in Europe in LSE Review of Books, available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2014/01/25/book-review-fair-sharedcities-gender- europe/
Efficient and sustainable transport systems are a vital part of city infrastructure, ensuring that all residents can move around the city to work, school, home and leisure activities. However, studies from the European Parliament70, CIVITAS71 and more recently Ramboll72 show that women and men move about the city in very different ways. Men, in general, are more likely to make single destination journeys in cars (i.e. from home to work) and travel at peak times, whereas women tend to use public
transport more to make multiple journeys scattered throughout the day. Researchers73 have suggested this is because women are often combining employment and care duties, meaning that, on an average day, they might make trips from home to school, to work, to the shops, back to school, to the park and home again, a phenomenon known as trip- chaining . These differences have an impact on how long journeys take, how much they cost and how efficient they are.
Gender and (smart) mobility
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN MODES 1. Women walk more than men and use more public transport as well. 2. Women cycle less than men if there s no or poor cycling infrastructure. 3. Men drive more than women and women are often the passenger. 4. Men use new mobility services more than women.
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN EXPERIENCE 1. Women to a greater extent than men worry about harassment. 2. Women to a greater extent than men think about the route and time of day traveling.
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN TRIPS 1. Women travel shorter distances per trip than men. 2. Women trip chain and have multiple stops to a greater extent than men,
who generally have an A to B trip pattern. 3. Women to a greater extent than men accompany children or other family members
and/or carry bags and groceries.
Source: RAMBOLL (2021)
