The 5th International Conference on Women’s Issues in Transportation (WIiT) builds upon the successful WIiT conference series, held in the US since 1978. Beginning with a scholarly focus, the series has broadened its outlook into policy making issues and planning and engineering processes, gradually deepening the understanding of women’s issues at local, regional, state and national levels.
The 5th WIiT International Conference continues this focus on women’s issues with the general question of “bridging the gap” between men and women in matters related to transportation. The conference will provide an international forum for sharing the latest research findings and policy analyses, and will feature international officials, keynote speakers, researchers, and practitioners.
A major goal of the conference is to deepen understanding of women not just as passive recipients of transport services, but as actors that can impact sustainable access, safe mobility, policy development, governance and oversight, service delivery and business expansion. The identification of future research needs will also be a key area of attention.
The focus areas are:
- Transport policy, transport patterns and mobility;
- Health, safety and personal security;
- Sustainability;
- Transportation impacts on careers and careers impacts on transportation.
In addition three cross-cutting themes will be considered:
- Gender research issues;
- Issues related to converting research findings into policy;
- Issues pertaining to narrowing the gap between developed countries and developing countries with respect to women’s issues in transportation.
Importantly, on 15th of April at 09.00-10.30 am, in the plenary session “BRIDGING THE GAP 1: GENDER” chaired by Mary Crass and Ariane Dupont, Silvia Maffii (TRT Trasporti e Territorio) on behalf of the CIVITAS Thematic Group “Integrated Planning” will discuss on “Transport as a key element for women to participate to social activities and work”.
