Interactive webinar on barriers and facilitators faced by women as users of surface transport – 18th March, 2pm

The DIAMOND Project wants to invite you to take part in a new interactive webinar conference to discuss the barriers and facilitators faced by women as users of surface transport.

The webinar will take place on Thursday 18th March 2021 (14:00 – 16:30 GMT time/15:00 – 17:30 CET). 

The format will be a panel discussion between our academic researchers and you, the professionals from the transport sector and other transport experts, with the objective to ensure relevant findings are translated accurately into interesting outputs suitable for transport organisations.

Prof Wafaa Saleh will be speaking about the ‘Opportunities and challenges for women using bike sharing services’ at 3pm.

See Programme.

Register here.

Topics for discussion include:

• Exploring the challenges faced and good practices found in transport organisations surrounding appropriate considerations for women as users of metro & railways, bike sharing services and autonomous vehicles
• The development of  a benchmarking or maturity model for fairness in the use of different surface transport services
• A workshop discussion to summarise key areas of future work and data collection

We would very much like you to be part of the overall discussion.

Preliminary Agenda

14.00  –  Welcome and introduction

Yvonne Hail, Research Fellow, Management School of the University of Stirling
Chiara Leva, Lecturer, TU Dublin
Maria Cristina Marolda, Former European Commission Policy Officer, Transport Expert

 

SECTION I: Surface transport fairness & inclusivity 

14.10 – The gender dimension of travel behaviour

Wei-Shiuen Ng, Advisor of sustainable transport and global outreach, International Transport Forum, OECD

14.20 – Issues raised and challenges faced by women in surface transport
Ajeni Thimnu, Akansha Lohmore, Chiara Leva, Lecturer, TU Dublin

14.40  – Q&A and feedback session 

 

SECTION II: Bicycle sharing: fairness & inclusivity

15.00 – Opportunities and challenges for women using bike sharing services

Wafaa Saleh, Professor, Edinburgh Napier University
Chris Blache, Urban Anthropologist, co-founder, Genre & Ville

15.20 – Q&A and feedback session 

 

SECTION III: Autonomous vehicles: fairness & inclusivity

15.40 – Women experience and preferences as AV users

Begoña Mateo, and Ricard Barberà, Human Factor Researchers, IBV

16.00 – Q&A and feedback session 

16.20 – Webinar closes
Yvonne Hail, Research Fellow, Management School of the University of Stirling
Chiara Leva, Lecturer, TU Dublin

For any questions please feel free to contact us at info@diamond-project.eu