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Commonly disregarded by most of the studies within urban research, the pedestrian mobility and the gender differences are brought together in this paper as central topics to discuss transport policy in a developing country.Developed through the participatory eliciting of weights (N = 581 women) and applied in 50 municipalities throughout Brazil, the Brazilian Women Walkability Index (BWWI) represented the perception of local women on four features of the urban environment: sidewalks, public lighting, security, and length of daily trips. This favored the construction of a linear regression model to search for the validation of the obtained BWWI, which was performed through the inclusion of widespread and consolidated indicators as predictors: the Human Development Index (HDI) and the Gini index. Besides yielding a satisfactory goodness-of-fit within public policies (adjusted R² = 0.498), the retrieved coefficients seem appropriate: a city with greater human development and lower inequality may result in a more attractive urban environment for women.The presented study pursues the incorporation of the perspective of gender in mobility studies as an essential element to understand the constraints to the occupation of the public spaces by the simple fact of not being a man. To do this, the perspective of pedestrian women is greatly emphasized, considering their requirements and idiosyncrasies as they walk in the city.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE70 Standing Committee on Women's Issues in Transportation.

18-02374

English

6p

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Developing countries; Females; Indexes (Information management); Linear regression analysis; Mobility; Pedestrians; Policy; Urban areas; Walkability

Brazil

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-02374

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 10:34AM