Bridging the Gender Data Gap in Transport

WOMEN ARE NOT A SINGLE HOMOGENOUS GROUP

Together with WhereIsMyTransport we have worked on the development, testing and analysis of gender-inclusive mobility data gathering in the study ‘Decoding Women’s Travel Experiences. A Study of Nairobi, Lagos, and Gauteng’. The intention behind conducting this study is to reflect the lack of openly available data on women’s travel experience and to contribute to filling this gap so that safe, comfortable, accessible, and affordable public transport can become a reality for all transport users. New insights were gathered with an emphasis on qualitative data, providing a more empathetic and user-centric view of women’s daily journeys.

Beyond this, we wanted to challenge the idea of ‘women’ as one homogenous group. “Women’s mobility needs and behaviours can differ significantly by age, occupation, and socio-economic level.” Therefore, the research zooms in on the level of different user-groups. Each of the user groups were surveyed in Nairobi, Lagos and Gauteng. In addition, the ride-alongs provide a detailed exemplary journey-map of one participant from each of the groups.

You can discover the participants’ journeys from a fist-person perspectives by clicking on the images we created for each of them. In their profile you will find individual journey maps and paint point maps. On our cities page, a decision-making matrix for each of the studied cities shows the variation in how women from different locations make their mobility choices based on cost, time, safety, comfort, and access.