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Development of Gender-Sensitive Questionnaire for Transport and Mobility Surveys

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Transport systems and infrastructure are rather male centred and unequal from the gender perspective. One of the major barriers in the improvement of gender equality in transportation is a significant lack of available sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics in the area of transportation. Due to the lack of data, it is difficult to properly define and describe the level of gender inequality in a specific environment. This article presents a method of designing a gender-sensitive questionnaire on transport behaviour that will consider all major aspects of gender issues in mobility and transport from a user perspective. The development of this tool is based on an extensive review of theoretical concepts and relevant research from different countries.

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    Gender Equality Index is a tool developer by EIGE that measures the level of gender equality in European countries. It reflects situation of men and women in 6 core domains: work, money, knowledge, time, power, health and violence and 2 satellite domains: violence and intersecting inequalities.

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This article was produced with the financial support of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports within the National Sustainability Programme I, project of Transport R&D Centre (LO1610), on the research infrastructure acquired from the Operation Programme Research and Development for Innovations (CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0064).

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    Eva Adamovska, Lucie Vondrackova & Petr Zamecnik

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Adamovska, E., Vondrackova, L., Zamecnik, P. (2020). Development of Gender-Sensitive Questionnaire for Transport and Mobility Surveys. In: Ahram, T., Falcão, C. (eds) Advances in Usability, User Experience, Wearable and Assistive Technology. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1217. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51828-8_31

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