Within the consortium of the CIVITAS WIKI project, TRT was responsible for drafting the second Policy Note, focussing on the topic of gender sensitive mobility planning. Firstly, the document seeks to offer an insight on the most relevant social and economic trends that affect gender transport demand and determine the main differences in women’s travel patterns: shorter distances, more use of public transportation, more non-work travel outside rush hours and more multi-stop trips. In the second section the document investigates the policies that have been adopted in different contexts across Europe in favour of gender-sensitive transport planning and in the last section it formulates some recommendations in relation to some key-priority issues: the enhancement of knowledge on the theme (need for updated gender data and statistics), the support of women’s participation in decision-making, the services improvement (tariffs, timetables, routes and stops) for all categories of users (with particular attention to women, children and elderly) in relation to accessibility, safety and comfort of transport modes and the planning of transport services in response to gender needs.

Authors: Silvia Maffii, Patrizia Malgieri and Caterina Di Bartolo

September  2014

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