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The Bus Stop: An overlooked dimension of
women’s perception of security while using
public transportation
Morgan Campbell, Rutgers University
Presented at Transforming Transportation 2016
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The Bus StopAn overlooked dimension of women’s
perception of security while using
public transportation
Morgan Campbell | Bloustein School of Planning and Policy | [email protected]
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Women waiting after work, Trivandrum.
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Bangalore’s Namma Metro
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Barakhamba road bus stop
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Vayu Senabad bus stop (photo credit: Carol Mitchell/flickr)
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Interstate bus stand, Bangalore
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Bus depot Chennai
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Bangalore
• Summer 2013
• Focus on the IT sector
• Mode choice and why
• Women
• Men
• Company bus vs BMTC
(public) bus
• Ideal mode choice
Source: Dittrich, 2007
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“On the Infosys bus you only have
Infoscians, you can trust them because
they are colleagues. On the public
buses we have people of all kinds,
we don’t know what background they
have, what sort of job they are doing
so we have to be on the defensive.”
-Woman, age 28
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Delhi
• Jan-August 2015
• Qualitative research• Interviews
• Oral surveys
• Targeted populations• Domestic workers
• Service workers
• Security personal
• Women PGs
• Comparative study• Bus vs Metro
• Proportion of women users
• Time of day
• Mode
• Geographic location
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Preliminary Findings
Bus interviews
• 52% of women cited cost as the
primary reason for choosing the
bus.
• 56% of women had the option to
take the metro instead of the bus for
their journey.
• 80% of women said what they liked
best about the bus was how cheap
it was.
• 100% of women had experienced
some form of harassment while
traveling by bus.
Metro interviews
• Approximately 90% of women cited
comfort and safety as the primary
reason for choosing the metro.
• 25% of women had experienced
some form of harassment.
• The majority of occurrences
happened while traveling to the
metro or while entering the station.
• 169 out of 173 women said that
presence of metro security
personnel increased their feeling of
security.
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Chhattisgarh Working Women’s Society (In depth interviews)
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Challenges
For Women Users
• Poor maintenance of bus shelter
• Lack of information regarding routes
• Inconsistent timings
• Rude drivers, ticket collectors
• Disinvestment in basic services
• A failure to feel independent and
self sufficient
For Researchers/Data Collection
• Lack of comprehensive data
• Unwillingness for cross-
collaborative research among
agencies, departments, etc…
• Replication of studies due to limited
knowledge of existing work
• A failure to translate findings into
advocacy
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Where to start?
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Tradition of hand/sign painting
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Special Thanks:
Taru Jain
Assistant Professor
School of Planning & Architecture
Purnima Parida
Principal Scientist
Central Road Research Institute
United States-India Educational
Foundation (Fulbright)
Infosys Bangalore
Initiative for Policy Dialogue