Heather has 25 years of international experience and is a highly-regarded expert in sustainable transport, gender and climate change. She has worked for both public and private sectors including UITP (the International Association of Public Transport), Transport Research Laboratory, FIA Foundation, European Commission, several MDBs banks and SLoCaT (Sustainable Low Carbon Transport partnership). As Senior Manager for Sustainable Development with the UITP she led the association’s work with many international agencies on climate change, the UITP diversity initiative and with public transport agency members in more than 50 countries in respect to the UITP Sustainable Development Charter. She also set up a number of strategic partnerships with major international agencies such as the United Nations Environment Programme. she was the Programme Director for Sustainable Transport with the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory’s (TRL) Sustainable Transport Group, a leader in providing impartial world-class research and consultancy for all aspects of transport. Whilst with TRL, she provided technical advisory services for a variety of international and European projects. Her European work includes serving as a member of the jury for the European Mobility Week award for 4 years and the interim impact evaluations for the Horizon 2020 research programme for the European Commission (Shift2Rail and Societal Change).
More recently, she has been working on gender and sustainable transport with UN Women, FIA Foundation and CAF. She has just concluded the Ella se mueve segura, a study investigating women’s personal security concerns when they use public transport in three Latin American cities (Buenos Aires, Argentina, Quito, Ecuador, and Santiago, Chile). She will present the findings from this study and also her work in updating the GIZ Urban Transport and Gender module of the SUTO series.
Heather brings a wealth of knowledge in international best practice and a strong international network. In addition, she is a member of a number of transport sector Committees and Institutions, for example: Fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transportation (CLIT), Member of Transport Research Board (TRB) Committee (USA National Academy of Science) for Developing Countries and the TRB Special Task Force for Climate Change and is an observer on Women in Transport committee. She remains an TRL associate, is a Trustee for the Walk 21 charity and is currently Chair of Transport Training Initiative (TTI) a German charity to increase access to training on transport for the developing world especially across Africa.
Heather Allen - Why do we need to consider how women move in urban transport planning?
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May 23rd 2017
09:00-10:00 (UTC+2)
Heather ALLEN, Independent consultant on gender & transport
Why do we need to consider how women move in urban
transport planning?
September 4th 2018
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Presentation
• Overview
• Specific aspects about women’s mobility
• Setting out some of the pitfalls of today’s transport planning
paradigm
• Areas for change
• Questions
• Wrap up
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A few ‘Why’s….
• Women represent 50% + of the world’s population
• Freedom of movement, mobility rights, or the right to travel is part of
the concept of basic human rights (Art 13.1.) and the right of
individuals to travel from place to place within a city or a country and
to leave the country and return to it. The right includes not only the
right to visit places, but also changing the place where the individual
resides or works.
• Women should have equal access to education, jobs and health
services and should not be restricted by code or creed
• Women are more likely to be poor than men and they are living
more and more in cities, and there is a clear trend that there are
more female heads of household.
• International recognition of the need to change (NUA, SDGs, Paris
Accord, #Metoo etc…)
• Cities cannot be inclusive if women cannot travel freely and safely,
many of other groups will benefit (children and elderly) and cities will
become more inclusive and dynamic
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Typically women are more time poor than men and transport is criterial in
improving women’s quality of life, and it impacts family life and poverty uplift
and there is a significant impact on economic development if more women can
enter the formal employment sector
It is a economic development issue
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Women and men have different mobility behaviours
Source: GRHS, 2013
Trip Chaining Travelling alone or
accompanied
Time of Travel
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• Study in three cities (Quito, Buenos Aires, Santiago) with supporting
partner with other cities based on a pilot (Cape Town)
• Used the same methodology to produce comparable results
• Results developed into a tool kit for cities, development and funding
agencies and transport operators (CAF & FIA Foundation web sites)
• Build a knowledge backbone in the region
• Help to generate change...
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Three areas of major change…
Women as decision makers
Women as suppliers
Women as users
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Main areas to consider when planning gender
sensitive transport
– more information in the toolkit
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Typically women walk or make most of their trips on buses
Younger women without families are regular users of rail but this diminishes when they have
children.
Source: Santiago - EOD (Encuesta Origen Destino) 2012, Secretaría de planificación de Transporte SECTRA.
Buenos Aires - ENMODO 2009-10, Ministerio de Transporte de la Nación.
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Policy and investments
Women use public transport (especially buses)
more than men
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• Information before and during the
journey;
• Interchange between different
public transport services and
between public transport and other
modes;
• Making Connections easy between
different public transport services and
other modes
• Integrated Ticketing for whole
journeys.
Passenger perspectives
The majority of trips today are quite complex
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ü Requires taking
a holistic approach
ü Looking in the
right direction and
ü Having the right
tools!!!
Findings solutions …
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Gender entry points for transport
• Collect sex disaggregated data on mobility patterns
(trip purpose by mode)
• Gender informed environmental design
• Strategies to address sexual harassment in public
transport (segregation vs community participation)
• Establish public transport schedules and pricing
systems that respond to the needs of women users
• Prioritize NMTs and IMTs in transport planning and
design
• Employ more women in transport (all areas)
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Using today’s technologies to help make data
collection easier
§ Create communities
Make information available, in real time and easy to
access
§ Improve connections
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Breaking stereotyping (conscious & unconcious)
Women in Employment Preferred for driving heavy trucks in mines,
Argentina & Peru
- Facing a severe shortage of capable
workers and production cost
increases, mining companies are
turning to women drivers as they take
more care of the vehicles keeping
costs low.
- Women drivers are more careful &
observe the protocols more rigorously
(e.g. speeds, maintenance checks).
- All the recent drivers recruited are
women
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Recent study of women’s personal security using public
transport – toolkit
She moves safely – Ella se mueve segura
https://www.fiafoundation.org/connect/publications/
ella-se-mueve-segura-she-moves-safely
