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MOBILITY
Organically, Indian cities
are growing linearly; they
are not doing a radial
development. How do we
make some kind of a land-
use plan in such a manner
that the workplace and
the residential areas are
not going to be divided
so much and we make
compact cities so that
the travel distance and
the travel time, both are
compressed.
Krishna Prasad public transport are recommended in
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Over 2006 to 2014, the Ministry of The guidance for cycling included not
Urban Development introduced the only cycle tracks to provide safer cycling
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Reforms infrastructure but also acknowledging
Mission and created urban mobility that women and girls may not have
indicators as well as comprehensive access to bicycles and that they may
mobility plans for over 63 cities across be afraid or not know how to cycle. An
India. The goal of the mobility indicators example of this is in Santiago where
was to compare cities, so that they would a women’s collective called Macleta
establish a baseline, they would compare worked with women in order to teach
and compete in saying in what ways them how to cycle and in order to
they were achieving the sustainability how to repair the bicycles and cycles
goals. When we began to evaluate in groups. When these were combined
these mobility indicators we found that with cycling infrastructure across the city
gender was not explicitly and consistently they found that women’s mode-share of
integrated in the mobility plans. cycling increased from 10 percent to 30
One of the indicators looks at average
waiting time for a bus at a bus stop percent over a decade.
Public transport needs to look not only
in the peak hours. This data is not at first and last mile connectivity but also
disaggregated by gender which it doesn’t travel within the buses and at stations.
include the city and the peripheral areas
and doesn’t include peak and off-peak
hours. This is a problem because this
could hide the higher waiting times for
women and girls for buses in the off- PHYSICAL
DESIGN &
peak hours as well. OPERATIONS
ITDP and SafetiPin released a policy
brief on women and transport in Indian GENDER
cities in order to create gendered RESPONSIVE
URBAN
TRANSPORT
mobility indicators. It outlined a process
for collecting gendered mobility data,
SOCIAL
ECONOMIC
quantitative as well as qualitative OPPORTUNITIES BEHAVIOUR
data and wanted to use performance
indicators to guide data collection that
would consider women and girls mobility We have to think about route planning
in Indian cities. and services, particularly services that
Indicators for walking, cycling and request a stop in the off-peak night
hours so that women stop closer to their
order to provide tangible guidance destinations. We need to think about
to cities on how they should design affordability and fare integration; safety
the transport systems. For example, audits of public transport infrastructure,
we provided indicators on street design of vehicles considering the fact that
connectivity because suburban street we have wider gangways, low support
networks will disproportionately affect handles, emergency numbers, real time
women as they walk to their various information; complaints redressal system
trips. We also identified indicators and gender inclusive signage as well as
for designing pedestrian facilities creating an institutional structure that
focussing on level of service approach, encourages women’s employment in the
road safety, street lighting, amenities, transport sector.
universal accessibility, information and Krishna Prasad: One feature that
street vendors as they provide informal makes a city smart is the sustainable
surveillance in our streets. mobility. So we are talking about a
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