While the travelers’ gender has not been a central consideration driving urban mobility planning, increasing evidence points to gender-differentiated mobility preferences and behaviors. This paper explores...
Transport services and infrastructure can be enablers or deterrents for women’s empowerment. Transport-related barriers, such as availability, affordability, acceptability, physical access, safety, and...
Mobility of goods and people in rural Haiti is constrained by the sparce road network and low maintenance of existing infrastructure. These challenges are further exacerbated by frequent natural disasters...
A human rights-based approach (HRBA) to transport can lead to inclusive and gender-responsive transportation systems as equality is a key principle of human rights. Transport, and the personal mobility...
The note is structured in eight sections, including the introduction. Section two defines the methodology. Section three describes the HRBA to development which will be used as guidance for the analysis...
This report is part of an Advisory Services and Analytics study that the World Bank undertook with funding from the Human Rights Umbrella Trust Fund. The study, the role of transport in supporting women...
The broad objectives of this study were to identify the following: (1) mobility differences globally between women and men (and by non-binary individuals, more broadly, where possible). This objective...
Despite having made tremendous progress in ensuring equal access to education and healthcare for its people, with school enrollment rates rising and children in most countries receiving the recommended...
Transport is traditionally a male-dominated sector. The realization that the sector and its subsystems have been conceived, designed, and matured from either a male-oriented or a gender-neutral perspective...
This study explores the range of constraints to women’s mobility and access to economic opportunities in six low-income areas of urban Latin America through the lens of agency. The study demonstrates that...
This study explores the range of constraints to women’s mobility and access to economic opportunities in six low-income areas of urban Latin America through the lens of agency. The study demonstrates that...
Transport is traditionally a male-dominated sector. The realization that the sector and its subsystems have been conceived, designed, and matured from either a male-oriented or a gender-neutral perspective...
Transport infrastructure and services development has historically been largely gender-blind, in otherwords, it has not taken gender roles and men’s and women’s different uses of transport into account...
Transport infrastructure and services development has historically been largely gender-blind, in otherwords, it has not taken gender roles and men’s and women’s different uses of transport into account...