In this episode we speak with Dr Deepty Jain of the the Indian Institute of Technology, about the work being done to assess the impact of heatwaves on women when traveling in India, and potential solutions.

Links

• Gender and income based variability in travel choices in Vishakhapatnam, India
• Hot weather and travel: how best to meet the needs of women in Delhi
• Gendered approach of addressing adaptation capacity to hot conditions
• Narrating Lives/Labour: Documenting Domestic Labour in Kolkata

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In this final episode of season 6, we speak with Jamie Leather, Director of the Transport Sector of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). What strategies need to be adopted to decarbonize transport in the region? What role will electric vehicles play in the transition towards sustainable and low carbon transport? How can Asia achieve a just transition in the transport sector? And what approaches to and what approaches to adaptation can be taken to deal with the natural disasters that currently inflict over 30 billion annual losses to the region?

Links:

• Green Roads Toolkit
• Davao Public Transport Modernization Project

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Slow moving Two and three-wheeler vehicles (Tri-SMVs) make up as much as 80% of the traffic in Bangladesh, but the roads are largely designed for motorised vehicles with four or more wheels. This creates safety and comfort issues for Tri-SMV drivers and passengers, significantly affecting the mobility of vulnerable groups.

In this episode we speak to Dr Nazmus Sakib of the Islamic University of Technology in Bangladesh about his research into this essential transport modality in both urban and rural areas of Bangladesh. We also discuss the impact of increasing numbers of electric versions of these vehicles, road design, safety as well as the impact of climate change and flooding on the impact of these vehicles.

Links

• Bangladesh cracks down on 3-wheelers in Dhaka over traffic, health concerns
• Move to legalise battery-run three-wheelers stalls
• Road to a Green Bangladesh
• Changing institutional landscape and transportation development in Dhaka, Bangladesh

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In the first episode of our sixth series, we talk with Dr. Kalpana Viswanath. She is the Co-founder and CEO of Safetipin, a social enterprise that uses technology and apps to collect data for the safe movement of women in urban spaces and towards gender responsive urban systems.

We talk how harassment, violence and the burden of care impact women's access to transport, work, education and leisure. How technology is used to gather data to create safer transport networks around cities and what needs to be done by local and national governments and international NGOs and donors to better serve all transport users.

Links:

• Ensuring women’s right to the city
• Index shows what makes a city safe for women
• Lessons learnt through gender-based travel data collection and related sexual harassment in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Post-COVID-19 Mobility: Key levers to reform urban transport systems
• Moving Ahead: Urban Mobility Reforms for Post-COVID Resilience in India
• Transit-oriented development: Case studies report

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In the final episode of season 5, we speak with road and vehicle safety activist, Michael Wanyama from AutoSafety Uganda. We discuss how the impact of used and unsafe vehicles on the roads in Uganda is often missed from the discussion around road safety and rising fatalities, as well as their contribution to rising emissions. Also Michael talks about his work training local mechanics and improving regulations in the industry.

Links

• Tackling Africa’s road safety and emissions from the source (T-TRIID project)
• Safer and Cleaner Used Vehicles (UNEP)
• Uganda - Active Mobility
• Country Scoping of Research Priorities on Low-Carbon Transport in Uganda
• Decarbonising Transport Award: Supporting ideas that cut transport CO2 in emerging economies

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In this episode we speak with Carly Gilbert-Patrick from UNEP about the current state of walking and cycling (often referred to as 'active mobility') across Africa. We touch on the differences and similarities between regions and countries, the impact of motorisation on active mobility infrastructure as well as changing hearts and minds to see pedestrians and cyclists as priorities in transport planning.

Links

• Share the Road Programme - UNEP
• ‘Our walking is our asset’: Exploring the way in which walking is valued in pedestrian practice and policy in African cities
• Learning from COVID-19 pop-up bicycle infrastructure: An investigation into flexible and user-led bicycle planning in Cape Town, Nairobi, and Kampala
• Investing in Walking in African Cities: Moving Beyond Policy
• Infrastructure Toolkit for Non-Motorised User Safety in African Cities: Challenges and Solutions

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In this episode of Reimagining Motion, we talk with Simon Saddier, a Senior Urban Transport Specialist at the World Bank and the Africa Transport Policy Programme (SSATP). We look at the challenges of urban transport across Africa, the expansion of BRT, as well as strategies to create dialogues between formal and informal transport sector organisations.

Links

• Africa Transport Policy Programme
• Institutions in Motion: Learning from the Experience of Urban Mobility Organizing Authorities in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Informal Public Transport Routemap & City Comparative Analysis: Final Report
• From complete formalization encompassing Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) to the corporatization of informal Public Transport owner/operators: Cape Town, South Africa
• The Regulation of buses and minibuses: private sector participation as catalysts to reform in Kigali, Rwanda
• The minibus renewal and professionalization process: a combined approach to modernize paratransit services in Dakar, Senegal

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In the first episode of our fifth series of Reimagining Motion we talk with Oluwaseun "Seun" Sonoiki, legal counsel at the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA). We explore the challenges of coordinating and expanding transport in one of Africa's most rapidly urbanising cities.

Links

• Lessons learnt through gender-based travel data collection and related sexual harassment in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Tackling Sexual Harassment in sub-Saharan African Transport: Changing Attitudes, Meeting Needs
• SHE-CAN Tool
• EMPOWER: Safer Transport for Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Literature Review – EMPOWER – Practical Tools for Decision Makers and Citizens to Tackle Sexual Harassment in African Urban Transport
• Inclusive Interchanges (T-TRIID)

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