How to move from this fine sounding idea to concrete operational reality? For starters each of us here can take it upon ourselves as an individual commitment first to ponder and then to try to ensure full and fair representation of women in every transportation planning and decision forum we are involved in (starting with […]
In this piece the editor of World Streets goes out on a limb and proposes not only that the year 2010 should be formally nominated as “The Year of the Woman in Transportation” but also that something resembling gender parity be established at least as high profile examples in as many places as possible – […]
Understanding women’s experiences of using a male- oriented mobility system can help improve it for everyone. Here’s a guide: Mobility is not gender neutral, and may have a male bias. Women have different needs and behaviours when it comes to transportation. Understanding their perspective could improve mobility for everyone. As multiple studies have shown, women […]
Andree Woodcock, a Professor from Coventry University, tells us what we need to know about the H2020 TInnGO (Transport Innovation Gender Observatory) project that concerns the role of women in transport and the need to reduce inequalities in smart mobility. Source: Source: https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/reducing-inequalities-in-smart-mobility/73408/ Why is this needed? It has long been recognised that women (and other groups) […]
. So what better occasion for World Streets to announce publicly, loudly and yet once again our firm belief that the most important single thing that our society, our nations and our cities could do […]
– By Caroline Samponaro, head of bike, scooter, and pedestrian policy at Lyft. Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota http://www.cts.umn.edu/publications/catalyst/2019/july/mobility From the quick rise of the electric scooter to Lyft’s expansion of bike-share networks across the country, change is constant in the shared mobility industry. This changing landscape was the topic of the CTS […]
In a city, as in life, we normally register only what we set out to look for. The anomalies, the absences, the troubling, somehow escape our attention. But when it comes to transport, everywhere the eye might wander there are valuable clues, both visible and invisible, for planners and policy makers. However, if we fail […]
By Nathan Lobel, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment|Feb. 26, 2019 In October, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that we have little more than a decade to stave off climate catastrophe. Avoiding such a fate, the panel warned, “would require rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land, urban and infrastructure (including transport and buildings), and industrial systems… unprecedented […]
[From Wikipedia on Women, Leadership and Climate Change (2019 State of the art at http://bit.ly/2HMbKVZ)%5D Introduction: The contributions of women in climate change have received increasing attention in the early 21st century. Feedback from women and the issues faced by women have been described as “imperative” by the United Nations and “critical” by the Population Reference Bureau. A report by the World Health […]
DRAFT FOR PEER REVIEW AND COMMENT What about women as cyclists at Velo-city 2017? Benoit Beroud, Mobility Designed for All consultant at Mobiped, attended, the World Cycling Congress, which occurred in Nijmegen (Netherlands) last June. He shares his notes and comments with World Streets after reflection some inspiring thoughts about women and cycling in their […]
Lessons from a Stakeholder Engagement Process for Penang, Malaysia – Author: Minal Pathak • MIT-UTM Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program 2017 – Commentary by Eric Britton, Professor of Sustainable Development, Institut Supérieur de Gestion Paris
– Ashley Carruthers – https://theconversation.com/amp/cars-bicycles-and-the-fatal-myth-of-equal-reciprocity-81034 Any public conversation about on-road cycling in Australia seems to have only one metaphor for the relationship between drivers and cyclists: equal reciprocity. An utterance like “Drivers must respect cyclists’ space on the road” must inevitably be followed by something like “For their part, cyclists must ride responsibly and obey […]
Lessons from a Stakeholder Engagement Process for Penang, Malaysia Author: Minal Pathak • MIT-UTM Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program 2017 – Commentary by Eric Britton, Professor of Sustainable Development, Institut Supérieur de Gestion Paris “Recommended reading for anyone who cares about Penang and Democracy”
In a city, as in life, we normally register only what we set out to look for. The anomalies, the absences, the troubling, somehow escape our attention. But when it comes to transport, everywhere the eye might wander there are valuable clues, both visible and invisible, for planners and policy makers. However, if we fail […]
A late year reflection on dangerous political predators on the prowl and a real menace to democracy, equity and the planet.
. So what better occasion for World Streets to announce publicly, loudly and yet once again our firm belief that the most important single thing that our society, our nations and our cities could do […]
An important element of our Better Choices sustainability strategy is to achieve our carefully-considered objectives for the city, often very demanding, without avoidable social conflicts and divisions into opposing camps. For that we need to be attentive to soft policy techniques. Softness is often confused with weakness. But not in the martial arts. The goal of […]
Many of the key gender issues relating to the transport sector in the Pacific region – different travel needs of women from those of men, safety requirements, access to economic opportunities – are the same experienced by women across the world. Contexts may differ from that of Pacific Island nations beset by geographical, as well […]
We understand that in the transport sector this is not a well-known nor much appreciated concept, at least in the positive sense we are trying to develop here. So we are making every effort to share broadly, to invite questions and to clarify. In this spirit I was discussing this program the other day with […]
A late year reflection on dangerous political predators on the prowl and a real menace to democracy, equity and the planet.
WORLD STREETS __ A New Mobility Action Plan for 2022 