Gender equality A new topic in mobility

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Gender equalityA new topic in mobility?

• ECOMM 2008 5th of June 2008
• by Annemie Van Uytven (Mobiel 21, BE)

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Overview presentation

• Gender equality why a topic in mobility?
• Mobile Leuven Women
• Description
• Goals
• Methodology
• Results
• Recommendations
• CIVITAS MOBILIS gender issues
• Workplan
• Selected gender measure by the cities

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Gender equality why a topic in mobility?

• Promoting and implementing sustainable mobility
• ? social dimension often left behind
• Gender a critical dimension of the diversity of
  travel needs and experiences
• Research (in UK, Ireland and Sweden)
• ? differences in the way women and men travel
  (travel patterns and transport use)

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Gender equality why a topic in mobility?

• Incorporating gender
• ?inclusive mobility
• European Commission 6th Framework Programme for
  Research and Technological Development
• ? gender mainstreaming

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Mobile Leuven Women description

• DESCRIPTION
• qualitative research project in the city of
  Leuven in 2007 (Belgium, capital of province
  Flemish-Brabant, 90 000 inhabitants)
• collaboration between City Department of Equal
  Opportunities and Mobiel 21
• co-financed by
• Federal Ministry of Equal Opportunities
• Department of Equal Opportunities of the city of
  Leuven
• The Flemish government
• research on mobility needs of women in the city

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Mobile Leuven Women goals

• GOALS
• Realising a research project highlighting the
  social dimension of mobility
• Investigate whether mobility needs differ between
  men and women in the city
• Formulate policy recommendations for local and
  regional authorities

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Mobile Leuven Women methodology

• METHODOLOGY
• literature study
• in-depth interviews with 14 stakeholders in the
  city of Leuven
• 4 focus groups of different categories of women
• underprivileged women,
• women with young children (age -12),
• professionally active without or with older
  children,
• senior women citizens (age 65)

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Mobile Leuven Women results (1)

• RESULTS literature (Belgian situation)
• General differences between men and women in
  mobility behaviour
• Travel modes
• women ? car passenger, on foot
• men ? car driver, bike
• Travel distance men ? larger compared to women
• Travel time men ? more compared to women
• Travel motives
• men ? in public domain (work, leisure time)
• women ? in private domain (children and family)

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Mobile Leuven Women results (2)

• RESULTS in-depth interviews
• Main question support for working on gender and
  mobility?
• Interviews with local organisations working on
  the themes of
• mobility,
• women,
• underpriviledged people or
• senior citizens
• Find out about ideas, problems, best practices
  about gender and mobility

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Mobile Leuven Women results (3)

• RESULTS in-depth interviews
• For most organisations visited fairly new topic
• Only for target group underpriviledged women
  some initiatives were taken

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Mobile Leuven Women results (4)

• Results focus groups
• Findings from literature and interviews are basis
  for discussion
• Organisation of 4 focus groups
• Underpriviliged women
• Female senior citizens (aged over 65)
• Mothers with young children (-12 years)
• Women without children or with older children
  (12)
• Total 33 participants

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Mobile Leuven Women results (5)

• Focus group discussions on
• Travel motives
• Travel modes
• Travel time
• Difficulties while travelling
• Organisation of travel
• Sollutions for mobility problems encountered.

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Mobile Leuven Women results (6)

• Results for every target group
• Underprivileged women
• Primiraly walk or take the bus
• Often dont have driving licence or private car
• Struggling to combine work and children
• Cycling not very popular, certainly not amongst
  migrant women

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Mobile Leuven Women results (7)

• Mothers with young children
• Very car minded - easier to combine tasks
  (child care, full time employment, daily
  shopping)
• Work close to home and/or have a part time job
• Not easy to convince to cycle more because of
  multiple tasks (children, carrying heavy
  groceries, time management)

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Mobile Leuven Women results (8)

• Professionally active women without children or
  with older children
• Primiraly cycle in the city, using cycling bags
  for groceries
• Commuters mainly use PT (bus and train)

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Mobile Leuven Women results (9)

• Female senior citizens (65)
• Primiraly use the bus (free senior pass for all
  people aged 65 or older)
• Few cycle (reduced fysical ability busyness and
  speed of traffic)
• Few use the car (busyness and speed of traffic
  childrens advise to stop driving a car)

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Mobile Leuven Women results (10)

• General results
• Differences between men and women in travel
  modes, time, distance and motives
• Gender differences are based on traditional roles
  and tasks
• Trip chaining is typically a female activity,
  especially for women with younger children

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Mobile Leuven Women policy recommendations

• Policy recommendations
• Install shopping bag lockers
• Install public toilets (clean!)
• Install pram renting system
• Install benches in the city centre
• More storage room for bike trailers and carrier
  cycles

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Mobile Leuven Women policy recommendations

• Policy recommendations
• Accessibility of prams on buses and corteousness
  on the bus
• More information regarding car sharing services
• Lack of communication towards women as a target
  group for local mobility issues!
• involvement of womens organisations and schools
  in communication
• spread info via shops, day-care centres,
  doctors practices, etc.

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CIVITAS MOBILIS gender issues

• CIVITAS MOBILIS (2005-2009)
• partners cities Toulouse (France), Debrecen
  (Hungary), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Venice (Italy),
  and Odense (Denmark)
• striving to create a culture for clean urban
  mobility in the framework of sustainable
  development, ensuring involvement of all relevant
  stakeholders and participation of citizens.
• specific coordination on 5 policy themes across
  all sites and measures ?social inclusion and
  equity in mobility

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CIVITAS MOBILIS workplan gender issues

• Workplan gender issues
• Task 1 Identification partners gender focus
  group
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• Task 2 Gender screening of all
  Mobilis-measures ?
• Task 3 Selection of gender measures by every
  city ?
• Task 4 Implementation gender measures in
  cities
• ?
• Task 5 Compilation of results and
  recommendations

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CIVITAS MOBILIS selected gender measures (1)

• Selection of gender measures by the cities
• City of TOULOUSE integration of gender dimension
  into evaluation activities in 3 measures
• Innovative multimodal PT contracts, services and
  electronic ticketing
• Awareness raising campaign for changing mobility
  behaviour
• Promotion of bicycle use and integration with PT
  services

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CIVITAS MOBILIS selected gender measures (2)

• Selection of gender measures by the cities
• City of Debrecen survey on citizens
  satisfaction regarding new cycling racks
  (specific gender focus)
• City of Ljubljana gender analysis on PT use

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CIVITAS MOBILIS selected gender measures (3)

• Selection of gender measures by the cities
• City of Venice new car sharing service survey on
  users behaviour and needs (specific gender focus)
• City of Odense interactive traffic training for
  children (differences in traffic behaviour
  between boys and girls)

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CIVITAS MOBILIS results

• Results
• Results and recommandations will be ready by
  September 2008

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Gender equality a new topic in mobility?

• More information
• Annemie Van Uytven
• Mobiel 21
• Vital Decosterstraat 67A
• 3000 Leuven (Belgium)
• 32 16 31 77 01
• annemie.van.uytven_at_mobiel21.be