MnDOT’s Advancing Transportation Equity Initiative focuses on ensuring the transportation network, services and decision- making meet the needs of Minnesota’s underserved or underrepresented communities. Understanding the needs, challenges and overall experiences of these communities is crucial to advancing an equitable transportation system. Published literature on gender and travel, while indicating that people of different genders have different travel behaviors, has largely defined gender as binary. When gender is viewed as a female–male binary, some travelers’ needs are overlooked or misunderstood. MnDOT wanted to understand how gender identity and gender roles influence travel behaviors and experiences in Minnesota.
Content Notes:
This Technical Summary pertains to Report 2023-10, “Advancing Equity in Accessibility and Travel Experiences: The Role of Gender and Identity,” published March 2023. More information is available at mdl.mndot.gov.
Gender can have a significant influence on people’s behaviors and experiences. Hence, excluding gender diversity in transportation research and prac...
Gender can have a significant influence on people’s behaviors and experiences. Hence, excluding gender diversity in transportation research and prac...
Previous scholarship has shown that low-income individuals who also might identify as racial, ethnic, and gender minorities (such as transgender and g...
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