Designing Cities, and Transportation Systems, For Women
Did you know men and women use the transportation system differently? For instance, men typically either drive or ride the bus to work and home each day. That's it. But women drop the kids at school or daycare, go to the gym, go to work, pick the kids up on the way home, stop by the grocery store, go home and make dinner and then sometimes leave again later to attend meetings or see friends.
I feel tired just writing that out. Realizing the differences in the genders, many planners are working now to design cities and transportation systems with the needs of women in mind.
The Atlantic Cities talks about how Vienna, Austria is doing this.
About SRTC
SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.
SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.
Did you know men and women use the transportation system differently? For instance, men typically either drive or ride the bus to work and home each day. That's it. But women drop the kids at school or daycare, go to the gym, go to work, pick the kids up on the way home, stop by the grocery store, go home and make dinner and then sometimes leave again later to attend meetings or see friends.
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