Assessment of Gender Impacts of ITS
The World Bank and China has over 30 years of partnership and this partnership has evolved over time. In the early years, the World Bank shared its global knowledge with China on infrastructure development and institutional capacity building, which...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26796511/assessment-gender-impacts-2016 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25207 |
| Summary: | The World Bank and China has over 30
years of partnership and this partnership has evolved over
time. In the early years, the World Bank shared its global
knowledge with China on infrastructure development and
institutional capacity building, which contributed to
shaping China’s modernization and development. Today, many
Chinese cities are making significant investment in
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and the scale is among
the largest in all countries. The World Bank is supporting
over 20 urban transport projects in China. This study uses
Wuhan and Urumqi as two case studies to evaluate the gender
impacts of their existing urban transport ITS, by adopting
methods of survey and focus group discussion. Under the
support of the World Bank, Urumqi and Wuhan have completed
its first Bank-financed ITS construction in 2007 and 2010
respectively. They are now proposing to expand or upgrade
ITS in their new Bank-financed projects. The findings
suggest that men and women have unique travel patterns and
transport demands, which result in special requirements of
ITS; the findings also suggest that ITS can play a
significant role in filling the gender gap in urban
transport. In addition to improving infrastructure and
intelligent transport facilities, the pressing issue is to
build gender awareness for policy makers and practitioners
and mainstream gender in transport and ITS. The study aims
at strengthening capacity for gender-informed operations and
policy making in East Asia and Pacific (EAP) countries.
Besides this report, the team has also developed a technical
guideline to better incorporate gender considerations in ITS
planning, design, implementation and operation. |
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