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Smart Cities are Gender Inclusive

Rebecca Peterniak, Transport Infrastructure Spe-cialist,Fireseeds North InfrastructurePresented at Transforming Transportation 2015

Smart cities are gender inclusive

Rebecca PeterniakTransport Infrastructure Specialist Fireseeds North Infrastructure Winnipeg, Canada

“…across time and space, women often have unequal access to better transport

services, display very different travel patterns, and face more fear and anxiety in travelling than do comparable men.”

- Rosenbloom & Plessis-Fraissard (2009)

Care-givers

Travel with children

Trip chaining

Multi-destination

Off-peak

Fear Anxiety Harassment Assault

Gender-based barriers to mobility

arise when transport

infrastructure and services fail to

address the needs of women.

Hear from Women

Apply Knowledge

Build Capacity

to understand their travel needs, priorities, constraints and behaviours.

to determine if and how transport services and infrastructure address the needs of

women.

so that we have the knowledge and tools to communicate and address issues of gender

inclusiveness.

• Community engagement and public consultation

• Gender-disaggregated transport data

• Women in industry and schools

Hear from Women

Apply Knowledge

• Policies

• Practice

• Audits

• Indicators

• Institutions

• Universities

• Communities

• Research

• Information sharing

Build Capacity

Apply Knowledge

Build Capacity

Hear from Women

Public consultation

Gender-disaggregated data

Women in industry

Policy

Practice

Audits

IndicatorsInstitutions

Universities

Communities

Research

Information sharing

“India bus attack: Women lauded for fighting off harassers” – CBC News: Dec 1, 2014

Personal security

Hear from WomenOnline maps to report street harassment

Apply Knowledge

In-service review of facility with security issues by a multidisciplinary team of experts

Team equipped with technology

Issues and Treatments

• Crime prevention through environmental design

• Targeted and increased police presence

Reports of street assault and harassment

Security issues and treatments from multidisciplinary team of experts

Monitor change in harassment

reporting

Build Capacity

• In-service review process becomes part of work program

• Map available to the community and decision makers

• Basis for workshops

• 3 areas of focus

•General strategies for hearing from women, applying knowledge, and building capacity

• Innovative approach to address personal

security issues

For shared prosperity, cities

need transport that is gender inclusive.