World Bank gender transport surveys: An overview

Julie Babinard
Transport Notes Series
TRN-43
September 2011

Between 2008 and 2010 the transport sector initiated several country surveys to measure road transport needs and the constraints of both men and women, and more specifically how transport is facilitating or constraining access to resources, markets, and employment. These surveys were conducted as part of a lending operation or Economic Sector Work (ESW) with financial support from the Gender Action Plan (GAP), which seeks to advance women’s economic empowerment and accelerate the implementation of the Millennium Development Goal 3 (MDG3—promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment).

A report that reviews the methodology used for each country GAP-funded survey, the design and content of the questionnaires and the likely effect on the analysis shows that women tend to have access to a wider range of social and economic opportunities when transportation is available, safe and secure.

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More mobility with less traffic: Arguments for sustainable mobility

German Federal Environment Agency
March 2011

The car acts like a drug: It opens up new dimensions of mobility, but when used to excess has considerable side-effects which choke the mobility it affords. A close analysis of the concept of mobility shows that mobility is not the same as traffic. One and the same level of mobility can be achieved with much or with little traffic. The determining factor is the range of activities offered within an individual's radius of action. If we wish to safeguard mobility for the long term, we have to improve opportunities for activities near the home rather than widen the radiuses of action.

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Travel Surveys

A1D10: Committee on Travel Survey Methods
Chairman: Elaine Murakami, Federal Highway Administration
TRB

ROBERT GRIFFITHS, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
A. J. RICHARDSON, University of Sydney, Australia
MARTIN E. H. LEE-GOSSELIN, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada

Travel surveys will continue to be one of the most important ways of obtaining the critical information needed for transportation planning and decision making in the new millennium. Not only will these surveys be used to gather current information about the demographic, socioeconomic, and trip-making characteristics of individuals and households, but they will also be used to further our understanding of travel in relation to the choice, location, and scheduling of daily activities. This will enable us to enhance our travel forecasting methods and improve our ability to predict changes in daily travel patterns in response to current social and economic trends and new investments in transportation systems and services. These travel surveys will also play a role in evaluating changes in transportation supply and regulation as they occur.

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