IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/jotrge/v114y2024ics0966692323002387.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Uncovering gender-based violence and harassment in public transport: Lessons for spatial and transport justice

Author

Listed:
  • Tiznado-Aitken, Ignacio
  • Guerrero B., Thomas E.
  • Sagaris, Lake

Abstract

When suitably organized, public transport plays an important role in social inclusion and equity by providing crucial access to social, political, and economic opportunities. Notwithstanding, a growing body of evidence points to gender-based harassment and violence associated with public transport journeys as significant barriers to women's travel. This raises important issues regarding spatial and transport justice.

Suggested Citation

  • Tiznado-Aitken, Ignacio & Guerrero B., Thomas E. & Sagaris, Lake, 2024. "Uncovering gender-based violence and harassment in public transport: Lessons for spatial and transport justice," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 114(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jotrge:v:114:y:2024:i:c:s0966692323002387
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103766
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692323002387
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103766?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Lubitow, Amy & Abelson, Miriam J. & Carpenter, Erika, 2020. "Transforming mobility justice: Gendered harassment and violence on transit," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    2. Tiznado-Aitken, Ignacio & Lucas, Karen & Muñoz, Juan Carlos & Hurtubia, Ricardo, 2022. "Freedom of choice? Social and spatial disparities on combined housing and transport affordability," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 122(C), pages 39-53.
    3. Quinones, Lina Marcela, 2020. "Sexual harassment in public transport in Bogotá," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 139(C), pages 54-69.
    4. Oviedo Hernandez, Daniel & Dávila, Julio D., 2016. "Transport, urban development and the peripheral poor in Colombia — Placing splintering urbanism in the context of transport networks," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 180-192.
    5. Vania Ceccato & Nathan Gaudelet & Gabin Graf, 2022. "Crime and safety in transit environments: a systematic review of the English and the French literature, 1970–2020," Public Transport, Springer, vol. 14(1), pages 105-153, March.
    6. Lucas, Karen, 2011. "Making the connections between transport disadvantage and the social exclusion of low income populations in the Tshwane Region of South Africa," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 19(6), pages 1320-1334.
    7. Marie Geraldine Herrmann-Lunecke & Rodrigo Mora & Lake Sagaris, 2020. "Persistence of walking in Chile: lessons for urban sustainability," Transport Reviews, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(2), pages 135-159, March.
    8. Hidalgo, Dario & Huizenga, Cornie, 2013. "Implementation of sustainable urban transport in Latin America," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 40(1), pages 66-77.
    9. Tiznado-Aitken, Ignacio & Muñoz, Juan Carlos & Hurtubia, Ricardo, 2021. "Public transport accessibility accounting for level of service and competition for urban opportunities: An equity analysis for education in Santiago de Chile," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
    10. Lucas, Karen, 2012. "Transport and social exclusion: Where are we now?," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 20(C), pages 105-113.
    11. Gregório Luz & Licinio Portugal, 2022. "Understanding transport-related social exclusion through the lens of capabilities approach," Transport Reviews, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(4), pages 503-525, July.
    12. repec:oup:jirelw:v:33:y:2021:i:3:p:506-527. is not listed on IDEAS
    13. Ross, Catherine E., 2000. "Walking, exercising, and smoking: does neighborhood matter?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 51(2), pages 265-274, July.
    14. AManda Root & Laurie Schintler & KEnneth Button, 2000. "Women, travel and the idea of 'sustainable transport'," Transport Reviews, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(3), pages 369-383, January.
    15. Sultana, Zohora & Mishra, Sabyasachee & Cherry, Christopher R. & Golias, Mihalis M. & Tabrizizadeh Jeffers, Saman, 2018. "Modeling frequency of rural demand response transit trips," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 118(C), pages 494-505.
    16. Gustavo Carvalho Moreira & Vania Aparecida Ceccato, 2021. "Gendered mobility and violence in the São Paulo metro, Brazil," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(1), pages 203-222, January.
    17. Schwanen, Tim, 2020. "Towards decolonial human subjects in research on transport," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Massingue, Suzanna Allen & Oviedo, Daniel, 2021. "Walkability and the Right to the city: A snapshot critique of pedestrian space in Maputo, Mozambique," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
    2. Tiznado-Aitken, Ignacio & Fuenzalida-Izquierdo, Jorge & Sagaris, Lake & Mora, Rodrigo, 2021. "Using the five Ws to explore bikeshare equity in Santiago, Chile," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).
    3. Boisjoly, Geneviève & Serra, Bernardo & Oliveira, Gabriel T. & El-Geneidy, Ahmed, 2020. "Accessibility measurements in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba and Recife, Brazil," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    4. Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa & Koomson, Isaac & Munyanyi, Musharavati Ephraim, 2023. "Transport poverty and obesity: The mediating roles of social capital and physical activity," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 130(C), pages 155-166.
    5. Rui Xiao & Guofeng Wang & Meng Wang, 2018. "Transportation Disadvantage and Neighborhood Sociodemographics: A Composite Indicator Approach to Examining Social Inequalities," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 137(1), pages 29-43, May.
    6. Duvarci, Yavuz & Yigitcanlar, Tan & Mizokami, Shoshi, 2015. "Transportation disadvantage impedance indexing: A methodological approach to reduce policy shortcomings," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 48(C), pages 61-75.
    7. Lin, Joanne Yuh-Jye & Jenelius, Erik & Cebecauer, Matej & Rubensson, Isak & Chen, Cynthia, 2023. "The equity of public transport crowding exposure," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 110(C).
    8. Luz, Gregório & Barboza, Matheus H.C. & Portugal, Licinio & Giannotti, Mariana & van Wee, Bert, 2022. "Does better accessibility help to reduce social exclusion? Evidence from the city of São Paulo, Brazil," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 166(C), pages 186-217.
    9. Luz, Gregorio & Barboza, Matheus Henrique Cunha & da Silva Portugal, Licinio & Giannotti, Mariana & van Wee, Bert, 2022. "Does better accessibility help to reduce social exclusion? Evidence from the City of São Paulo, Brazil," SocArXiv 2p896, Center for Open Science.
    10. Maria Kett & Marcella Deluca, 2016. "Transport and Access to Inclusive Education in Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 4(3), pages 61-71.
    11. Silver, Kelli & Lopes, André & Vale, David & da Costa, Nuno Marques, 2023. "The inequality effects of public transport fare: The case of Lisbon's fare reform," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 112(C).
    12. Wan, Zhengyue & Titheridge, Helena, 2024. "Socially sustainable transport in the context of different-sized cities in China:Conceptualisation and operationalisation of equity," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 115(C).
    13. Alberts, Anna & Pfeffer, Karin & Baud, Isa, 2016. "Rebuilding women's livelihoods strategies at the city fringe: Agency, spatial practices, and access to transportation from Semmencherry, Chennai," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 142-151.
    14. Luis A. Guzman & Victor A. Cantillo-Garcia & Julian Arellana & Olga L. Sarmiento, 2023. "User expectations and perceptions towards new public transport infrastructure: evaluating a cable car in Bogotá," Transportation, Springer, vol. 50(3), pages 751-771, June.
    15. David Perez-Barbosa & Junyi Zhang, 2017. "Transport-Based Social Exclusion in Rural Japan: A Case Study on Schooling Trips of High School Students," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 5(4), pages 235-250.
    16. Vergel-Tovar, C. Erik & Leape, Jonathan & Villegas Carrasquilla, Mónica & Peñas Arana, Maria Claudia & Toro Gonzalez, Daniel & Canon Rubiano, Leonardo & Salas Barón, Eliana & Martinez, Paulo, 2022. "Mapping the transit network of greater Cartagena with mobile phones: Coverage, accessibility, and informality," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 105(C).
    17. Karen Lucas, 2012. "A critical assessment of accessibility planning for social inclusion," Chapters, in: Karst T. Geurs & Kevin J. Krizek & Aura Reggiani (ed.), Accessibility Analysis and Transport Planning, chapter 13, pages 228-242, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    18. Lachapelle, Ugo & Boisjoly, Geneviève, 2023. "Breaking down public transit travel time for more accurate transport equity policies: A trip component approach," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 175(C).
    19. Xiaoshu Cao & Huiling Chen & Feiwen Liang & Wulin Wang, 2018. "Measurement and Spatial Differentiation Characteristics of Transit Equity: A Case Study of Guangzhou, China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(4), pages 1-17, April.
    20. van Dülmen, Christoph & Šimon, Martin & Klärner, Andreas, 2022. "Transport poverty meets car dependency: A GPS tracking study of socially disadvantaged groups in European rural peripheries," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 101(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:jotrge:v:114:y:2024:i:c:s0966692323002387. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-transport-geography .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.