[sustran] Re: Gender issues in urban transport

Jean-Michel CUSSET jean-michel.cusset at let.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
Fri Oct 10 15:19:15 JST 2003


Le 9 Oct 03, à 12:05, Wendy Tao a écrit:

> 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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Dear Wendy,

Your research project appears for me very exciting. I did and am doing 
some rearches on urban transport in Vietnam (Hanoi, Saigon) based on 
households survey (820 households for Hanoi in 2000-2001, 1250 
households for HCMC). But these researches were not focused on gender 
and transport. It is possible to consider travel behaviour and opinion of 
female population on transport issues according to age, occupation familial 
status... Japanese consultants had done a bigget household survey for 
HCMC in 2002 (Houtrans team, we can visit their website) with arond 
28,000 households.
Why are you so interested by Vietnam ? anh/em la nguoi Viet khong ?
Amities
Jean Michel CUSSET
Directeur de recherche au CNRS
Laboratoire d'Economie des Transports
e-mail : jean-michel.cusset at let.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr
Tél (33) 4 72 72 64 49  fax (33) 4 72 72 64 48


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