[sustran] Gender issues in urban transport

[jeff turner]

Dear Ms Tao,

I agree, this sounds like a very interesting and much needed project. You 
may be interested in work that myself and Professor Margaret Grieco of the 
UK's Napier University have undertaken in recent years on gender and 
transport, including papers on the point you make about the need to include 
gender from the initial stages of the transport planning process. This work 
is at:

http://www.geocities.com/transport_research

and

http://www.geocities.com/transport_and_society/genderedjourneys/

You may also be interested to know that the UK's Transport Research 
Laboratory (who I work for), IFRTD and the Japanes consultants ICNET have 
been undertaking a project for the World Bank on Integrating Gender into the 
Bank's Transport Investment Programme. This study has undertaken 10 case 
studies of issues around integrating gender into the transport planning 
process. This is not yet complete and we can't release any publications from 
it but it does include a Vietnamese partner who conducted research in 
Vietnam, who you may wish to contact. She is called Vu Ngoc Uyen and her 
e-mail is vnuyen at fpt.vn. The project officer for the project at the Bank is 
Rakhi Basu at rbasu at worldbank.org.

In addition, for further resources and information you may be interested in 
the site developed by City & Shelter, an Belgian NGO, on Gender and Mobilty 
at:

http://www.cityshelter.org/13_mobil/start-mobil.htm

Hope this helps

Cheers

Jeff Turner
Jeff Turner Transport & Social Development Consultancy Ltd
2 Parkside Avenue
Meanwood
Leeds
LS6 4JD
UK
Tel +44 (0)113 278 1994
Fax +44 (0)709 239 1156

>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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