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Gender differences in travel patterns and care trips in the Mexico City metropolitan area

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  • Romero, Yennifer Díaz
  • yenniferdr07@ms.uas.edu.mx

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Introduction: Women and men travel differently, and care-related mobility is a central driver of that gap, yet evidence for the Mexico City metropolitan area remains limited. Methods: We analyzed the public microdata of the 2017 Origin-Destination Household Survey of the Mexico City metropolitan area (INEGI), a population-based travel survey. We compared trip purpose, mode used, trip chaining and travel time between women and men with survey-weighted estimates and generalized estimating equations with cluster-robust standard errors, adjusting for age, day type, sociodemographic stratum and locality size. Results: Women made 52.0% of the 531,594 person-trips recorded. Escorting someone accounted for 7.0% of women's trips and 2.2% of men's (adjusted OR 3.18; 95% CI 3.05-3.32). Women walked on 64.9% of trips and used a private car on 18.3%, versus 54.6% and 25.8% for men. Women made more trips per person-day (2.22 vs 2.08) and shorter trips (median 30 vs 35 min; adjusted difference −10.6 min; 95% CI −11.0 to −10.3). Conclusions: In the Mexico City metropolitan area women travel more often, by walking and collective modes, with more care trips and shorter travel times than men. Transport planning should recognize care mobility and the gendered distribution of trip purposes.

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  • Romero, Yennifer Díaz & yenniferdr07@ms.uas.edu.mx, 2024. "Gender differences in travel patterns and care trips in the Mexico City metropolitan area," SAP Transport, Mobility & Society, South American Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:cwf:tmsart:tms2024125
    DOI: 10.62486/tms2024125
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