Giving Voice to Women in Public Transport: Understanding “(Im)Mobility of Care” and female travel patterns

IF 4.1 2区工程技术 Q2 BUSINESS

Research in Transportation Business and Management Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI:10.1016/j.rtbm.2025.101325

Keiko Porath, Patricia Galilea

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Abstract

Regarding the latest developments in transport research and policy, “mobility of care” (MoC) is a concept that has started to be recognised. MoC refers to trips generated by activities of care for home/family. These activities are mostly associated with women and affect their mobility patterns, thus requiring observing mobility from a gender perspective.

Using analysis with the gender-perspective of Santiago's mobility survey and our survey, we obtain characteristics of caregivers' mobility patterns.

Findings highlight significant inequalities between genders. Specific results show: (1) twice as many women than men make chained trips because of care reasons; (2) minors conduct care-chain trips, which suggests that in the Global South, minors also conduct care-task trips; (3) the presence of children in the household creates a gender gap between women and men that is not present in households without children; (4) immigrant women and single mothers make more stages in a chained trip; (5) 31,2 % of trips are done for care-related reasons, with a significant difference between women and men.

Our results show that including gender-perspective in transport planning can help reduce gaps between genders and offer ways of reducing poverty, which makes mobility more equitable and sustainable – environmentally, economically, and socially.

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期刊介绍： Research in Transportation Business & Management (RTBM) will publish research on international aspects of transport management such as business strategy, communication, sustainability, finance, human resource management, law, logistics, marketing, franchising, privatisation and commercialisation. Research in Transportation Business & Management welcomes proposals for themed volumes from scholars in management, in relation to all modes of transport. Issues should be cross-disciplinary for one mode or single-disciplinary for all modes. We are keen to receive proposals that combine and integrate theories and concepts that are taken from or can be traced to origins in different disciplines or lessons learned from different modes and approaches to the topic. By facilitating the development of interdisciplinary or intermodal concepts, theories and ideas, and by synthesizing these for the journal''s audience, we seek to contribute to both scholarly advancement of knowledge and the state of managerial practice. Potential volume themes include: -Sustainability and Transportation Management- Transport Management and the Reduction of Transport''s Carbon Footprint- Marketing Transport/Branding Transportation- Benchmarking, Performance Measurement and Best Practices in Transport Operations- Franchising, Concessions and Alternate Governance Mechanisms for Transport Organisations- Logistics and the Integration of Transportation into Freight Supply Chains- Risk Management (or Asset Management or Transportation Finance or ...): Lessons from Multiple Modes- Engaging the Stakeholder in Transportation Governance- Reliability in the Freight Sector