Sonal Shah is Executive Director for the Centre of Sustainable and Equitable Cities And Founder of the Urban Catalysts. In this episode, ‘Understanding the Future of Gender, Transport and Cities’, with Sonal Shah, we discuss the importance of transport in any city, the meaning of sustainable transport and how gender diversity and easy movement of different kinds of people are significant.
We start the discussion by understanding why an efficient, seamless, affordable mobility system is the backbone of any city and why there should be an emphasis on the use of more sustainable modes of transport catering to different groups of people. Then we discuss the need for proper public infrastructure and the role of gender dimensions in the same. We further talked about the Metro Rail systems, their importance for different gender groups, and how we can improve on them. Further, the discussion moved towards Transit-oriented Development and how it will contribute to the overall development of the city infrastructure for different sets of people. Then we talked about how COVID has impacted the whole equation of transport of inequality in gender. We also talked about the role of the city, state, or national government, how they can come up with a national urban transport policy, and how to implement it in the cities. Then we discussed the data and how it can benefit us in formulating specific gender-oriented policies. Lastly, we talked about the need for different skill sets, hard and soft skills for planning and policy development.
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