Relationships between urban form and mobility: gender and mode of transport

• Autores: Iveth Rodriguez, Eric Gielen, José Sergio Palencia Jiménez
• Localización: First International Future Challenges in Sustainable UrbanPlanning & Territorial Management: Proceedings of the SUPTM 2022 conference / Salvador García-Ayllón Veintimilla (dir. congr.), José Luis Miralles García (dir. congr.), 2022, ISBN 978-84-17853-50-1, págs. 57-60
• Idioma: inglés
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  • With the growth of urban areas, cities are the centres of the great challenges of our society. Urban form influences the metabolism of cities in multiple ways and mobility is one of them. Depending on the type of urban fabric, population, and activities located in them, travel needs and modes of transport differences appear. As population is diverse, this relationship between urban form and mobility probably have significant gender gaps that should be investigated. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the correlation between the type of urban fabric and people’s mobility patterns, looking for significant gender differences in the number of trips and the mode of transport. Data were collected from the survey done for the Mobility Plan of the Metropolitan Area of Valencia and cadastral information. For statistical analysis, the PSPP program and Pearson's correlation coefficient were used. This paper demonstrates significant differences in relation to gender and modes of transport. Women ...