Gender Analysis Tool for Complete Streets Policy Implementation: Mobility, Families, and Emerging Technologies

In the U.S. and throughout the world, engineers and planners recognize the need for streets to support safe mobility for different travel modes and types of users. Complete streets policies capture this aim of inclusivity by emphasizing design for older and younger travelers as well as people with disabilities. Issues of gender, families, and caregiving are implicit in this idea of a complete street. On average, women have more household responsibility for accompanying younger, older, and less mobile travelers. Current complete streets policies, however, lack explicit consideration of gender, leaving communities with little guidance for operationalizing gender equity through transportation system design. The deployment of emerging transportation technologies further complicates the question of gender equity in the implementation of compete streets. How do new mobility technologies interact with gender roles, caregiving, and family structure? These questions, in fact, may provide a pivotal opportunity for communities to consider the interaction of gender, technology, and system design for the future city. Drawing upon established methods of gender-based policy analysis, which is both qualitative and quantitative, this project has three specific aims: (1) develop the relevant evidence needed to help communities operationalize gender equity through street design and policy; (2) work with organized stakeholders in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which recently adopted a complete streets policy, to translate the evidence base into a practical gender analysis tool for complete streets implementation; and (3) establish a plan and protocol to refine and validate the prototype gender analysis tool in new contexts.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $252956
• Contract Numbers:

  CTEDD 020-03

  69A3551747134

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Center for Transportation Equity, Decisions & Dollars (CTEDD)

  University of Texas at Arlington
  Arlington, TX  United States  76019

  University of Texas at Arlington

  Box 19308
  Arlington, TX  United States  76019-0308

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Center for Transportation Equity, Decisions & Dollars (CTEDD)

  University of Texas at Arlington
  Arlington, TX  United States  76019

  University of Texas at Arlington

  Box 19308
  Arlington, TX  United States  76019-0308
• Project Managers:

  Dunn, Denise

• Performing Organizations:

  University of Wisconsin-Madison

  1415 Engineering Drive
  2205 EH Madison
  Madison, WI  United States  53706

  Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

  Georgia Tech Research Corporation
  505 10th Street, Suite 213
  Atlanta, GA  United States  30332

  University of South Florida, Tampa

  Center for Urban Transportation Research
  3650 Spectrum Boulevard
  Tampa, FL  United States  33612-9446
• Principal Investigators:

  McAndrews, Carolyn

  Hu, Lingqian

  Ross, Catherine

  Schneider, Robert

  Zhang, Yu

• Start Date: 20200116
• Expected Completion Date: 20210831
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Complete streets; Equity; Families; Gender; Highway design; Mobility; Policy analysis; Stakeholders; Technological innovations; Validation
• Geographic Terms: Milwaukee (Wisconsin)
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Policy; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01727173
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Center for Transportation Equity, Decisions & Dollars (CTEDD)
• Contract Numbers: CTEDD 020-03, 69A3551747134
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jan 2 2020 3:35PM