Planning mobility in Portugal with a gender perspective

• Main Author: Queirós, Margarida
• Publication Date: 2020
• Other Authors: Marques da Costa, Nuno
• Language: eng
• Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Download full: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/44098
• topic: Mobility; Gender perspective; Portugal

According to Greed (2012), historical developments of the urban planning policy resulted in cities being based upon land-use zoning, separating home from work, thus extended commuting time, and enclosed housing estates mostly for women. Therefore, a dispersed land-use was developed, based on the rational planning paradigm supported by the use of the car. Consequently, daily tasks are allocated between motorised displacements, on traffic-jammed roads. Normally, it is women who are most likely responsible for daily home routines, childcare and shopping but, at the same time, with a professional activity outside the home, their mobility patterns are differentiated from men’s. Normally, women combine home and work tasks in a more complex trip-chain than the traditional home-to-work pattern. When residential places are separated from working areas, as a result of a spatial functionality idea created by the modern movement during the twentieth century, women need a greater amount of public transport services, with transverse inter-area bus routes and off-peak services. As an outcome, transport planning policies have paid little attention to gender transport pattern differences, assuming that transport interventions are gender neutral [...]