Safetipin, together with the Women on the Move: Transforming Transport in Asia network, has released a compendium exploring how women experience and shape transport systems across the region. Produced with support from GIZ, the publication gathers 45 articles from 73 contributors, including researchers, practitioners, policymakers and women sharing their own lived experience of navigating cities.
The compendium is organised into four sections: research and data-driven studies that surface mobility patterns often missed by conventional planning; case studies of policies and initiatives responding to women’s needs in specific cities; first-person narratives documenting everyday realities of commuting and access; and forward-looking contributions on regulatory, financing and governance reform.
Six cross-cutting themes run through the collection: climate-vulnerable and context-specific settings, just transition and decarbonisation, safety and equity, the mobility of care and life-stage needs, transport and livelihoods, and technology, data and innovation for inclusion. Together, the articles connect women’s day-to-day experience of transport, from commuting and safety to informal work and disability, with the goals of the UN Decade of Sustainable Transport (2026–2035).
The compendium argues that inclusive transport planning depends on treating women as active participants and experts rather than passive beneficiaries, and calls for stronger gender-disaggregated data, greater representation of women in the transport workforce, and participatory approaches that generate evidence with women rather than about them.