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Exploring Women Travel Behaviour in the Region of Žilina from Large Scale Mobility Survey

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Women and men often do not experience equal mobility opportunities. Increasingly, gender is being recognized to play a significant role in transport planning, particularly for addressing individual mobility needs in urban and rural areas. Previous studies have shown that transport policy and mobility planning are better suited to men’s activities and mobility needs, while women experience the transport system differently than men in terms of accessibility, safety and security. To gain an in-depth understanding of women travel patterns in their daily activities, this paper investigates the factors that influence women’s decisions between activity participation and choice of transport mode through analysis of mobility behaviour data gathered from 6000 households by Žilina self-governing region between 2013 and 2016. The results of this analysis provide valuable insights about the possible causal relation among socio-demographics, activity participation characteristics and daily travel mode choice of female and male travellers in the studied cities, which could be incorporated into more gender sensitive designs in mobility planning and travel demand modelling. Furthermore, the outcomes of this study can help decision makers, local and regional authorities and transport companies by raising awareness and providing support for (1) forming sustainable policies to overcome community mobility and accessibility challenges and (2) bringing more gender equality in the region of Žilina by changing traditional transport functionalities and providing more equitable provision of transport systems, particularly in public transport and active modes (non-motorised transport).

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Authors are grateful to Development Agency of the Žilina Self-governing Region for providing the mobility behaviour survey data conducted in Žilina region and Daniel Gašpierik for pre-processing the data and for preparing visualizations used in Sect. 4.1. Ľuboš Buzna has been partially supported by the research grants VEGA 1/0463/16 “Economically efficient charging infrastructure deployment for electric vehicles in smart cities and communities” and APVV-15-0179 “Reliability and emergency systems on infrastructure with uncertain functionality of critical elements”. This work was facilitated by the FP 7 project ERAdiate- Enhancing Research and Innovation dimension of the University of Zilina for Intelligent Transport Systems – Grant agreement no. 621386. Authors also declare that the procedures followed in publishing this paper were in compliance with the ethical and personal data protection standards of EU GDPR.

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Pourhashem, G., Buzna, Ľ., Kováčiková, T., Hudák, M. (2019). Exploring Women Travel Behaviour in the Region of Žilina from Large Scale Mobility Survey. In: Kabashkin, I., Yatskiv (Jackiva), I., Prentkovskis, O. (eds) Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication. RelStat 2018. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 68. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12450-2_10

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