Gender smart mobility : concepts, methods, and practices
Series: Transport and MobilityPublication details: London : Routledge, 2023Edition: 1 upplDescription: 164 sISBN:- 9781003191025
The main objective of this book is to present gender and diversity in smart transport as a game changer for urban metropolises around the globe. Despite growing attention to the need to include gender and diversity in innovation of the future transport sector, these perspectives are still a niche in mainstream planning and policy. This book argues that we need more socially inclusive approaches to meet the challenges of climate change, congestion, and urbanization, which are on the political agenda in most countries today. Applying gender and diversity, spelled out in variables such as age, class, ethnicity, and disability, to the field of transport, the book offers an invitation to take a fresh look at mobility planning and policies as well as research in this area. Broad in scope, the book critically explores and assesses how gender and diversity are entangled in the concepts and practices of smart mobility. This book presents concepts, theories, and cases of gender and diversity as informing the field of smart transport. It provides a new and intriguing framework for studying and interpreting gender and mobility in the twenty-first century. By exploring theoretical underpinnings and using explorative methodologies, the book offers an account of how to critically assemble smart technology, urban planning, sustainability, and justice into a new vision and practice of urban space and mobility. We present a new and vital notion of Gender Smart Mobility as a game-changing direction for the future transport sector. The concept of Gender Smart Mobility expresses a transport system that caters for both environmental and social challenges by providing transport for all. In revealing this concept, the book gives shape to the ways in which new smart mobility technologies and practices can be created as a common good.