Understanding & Responding to the Transit Needs of Women Canada’s first ever study on how women use transit recommends how to make public transit more accessible for its most frequent user By Priyanka Babbar, School of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Alberta & David Cooper, Principal, Leading Mobility Consulting
Experiences of women and men with transport
systematic gender inclusion procedures in transport—
systems differ, particularly when related to safety,
anything from training of professionals to the design
personal security, frequency, accessibility, and
and planning of systems, services and equipment—has
affordability of transport. In more recent transport
resulted in women’s distinct transport needs being
policy, gender has been emphasized as a priority in
overlooked in public transit planning and policy.
developing sustainable and inclusive transport systems. Prior to this advancement, however, a lack of
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