[sustran] Gender issues in urban transport

Wendy Tao WENDYT at wri.org
Fri Oct 10 01:05:09 JST 2003


Hello everyone.

I would like to do a research project on gender issues in urban
transport, specifically focused on Vietnam (Hanoi and HCMC).  

As Hanoi and HCMC begin to plan their transport networks to accommodate
the rapidly increasing urban area, an often overlooked component that
transport planners must face is the role of gender in the design,
implementation, communications, and marketing of a system that should
meet the practical and strategic needs of both men and women.  If gender
issues are ignored in transportation planning, there is a risk that
women's access to the workplace is stifled, efficiency in public
transport design is not maximized, and economic and social gains for a
large part of the population is not captured.

Does anyone have recommendations on literature or institutes focused on
these sorts of issues?  If anyone works on these gender and transport
issues themselves, I would love to connect and get some feedback on a
few ideas.

Thanks.
WT


Wendy Tao
EMBARQ, The WRI Center for Transport and the Environment
World Resources Institute
10 G Street, NE Suite 800
Washington, DC 20002
(phone) 202.729.7649
(fax) 202.729.7798
www.embarq.org


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