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Gender gaps in urban mobility
- Source :
- Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Nature, 2020.
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Abstract
- The use of public transportation or simply moving about in streets are gendered issues. Women and girls often engage in multi-purpose, multi-stop trips in order to do household chores, work, and study ('trip chaining'). Women-headed households are often more prominent in urban settings and they tend to work more in low-paid/informal jobs than men, with limited access to transportation subsidies. Here we present recent results on urban mobility from a gendered perspective by uniquely combining a wide range of datasets, including commercial sources of telecom and open data. We explored urban mobility of women and men in the greater metropolitan area of Santiago, Chile, by analyzing the mobility traces extracted from the Call Detail Records (CDRs) of a large cohort of anonymized mobile phone users over a period of 3 months. We find that, taking into account the differences in users' calling behaviors, women move less than men, visiting less unique locations and distributing their time less equally among such locations. By mapping gender differences in mobility over the 52 comunas of Santiago, we find a higher mobility gap to be correlated with socio-economic indicators, such as a lower average income, and with the lack of public and private transportation options. Such results provide new insights for policymakers to design more gender inclusive transportation plans in the city of Santiago.<br />Comment: 32 pages, 4 figures
- Subjects :
- FOS: Computer and information sciences
Physics - Physics and Society
FOS: Physical sciences
Social Sciences
Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
03 medical and health sciences
Computer Science - Computers and Society
0302 clinical medicine
Computers and Society (cs.CY)
AZ20-999
Sociology
Affordance
Lower income
General Psychology
030304 developmental biology
0303 health sciences
Gender equality
General Arts and Humanities
Perspective (graphical)
General Social Sciences
Limiting
urban mobility, call detail records, gender differences
General Business, Management and Accounting
Large cohort
Mobile phone
Demographic economics
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities
Gender gap
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 26629992
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9f1744f66b14d0f8c819983efe130418