Executive summary

• Author: Haq, G.; Ortega Hortelano, A.; Tsakalidis, A.; Gkoumas, K.; Pekár, F.; Balen, M. van; Grosso, M.
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Executive summary

The Transport Resea rch and I nnovation Monitoring a nd Information System (TRIMIS) is the analytical support

tool for the establishment and implementati on of the Strategic Transport Research and Innovation Agenda

(STRIA), and is the European Commission’s (EC) instrument fo r mapping transport technology trends and

research and innovation capacities.

A total of seven STRIA roadmaps have been developed covering various thematic areas, namely:

 Cooperative, connected and automated transport;

 Transport electrification;

 Vehicle design and manufacturing;

 Low-emission alternative energy for transport;

 Network and traffic management systems;

 Smart mobility and services; and

 Infrastructure.

Policy context

InMay 2017,the ECado ptedthe STRIAas parto fthe ‘Europe on the Move’package,which highlightsmain

transport research and innovation (R&I) areas and priorities for clean, connected and competitive mobility to

complement the 2015 Strategic Energy Technology Plan.

In June 2015, the Commissioner for transport, Violeta Bulc, and the Commissioner for employment, Marianne

Thyssen, organised a conference to discuss the most pressing social issues in transport. The conference was

followed by two additional workshops that addressed ways to attract more women to the transport sector.

UsingTRI MIS, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) has undertaken an overview of women’s issues in E uropean

transport R&I as a contribution to the sixthInternationalConferenceonWomen’sIssuesinTransportation (WIiT

2019) that will take place on 10-13 September 2019 in Irvine, California .

Key conclusions

The main findings are summarised in the following points:

 Women have specific travel characteristics about mode choice, time of travel, trip purpose, route, trip chain

andtraveldistance.Transportsafetyandsecurityarecriti calfactorsinwomen’smobilitychoices,andthe

introduction of new innovative technologies, and increased automation, are not necessarily gender neutral,

with women less willing to use them.

 Although research on equality and women (e.g. in the UK and the US) has been undertaken since the early

1980s, women's issues in transport is a relatively new topic. European regulations considered women and

transport issues at the beginning of this century, and relevant European research funded projects began

less than 20 years ago.

 Fewprojects withinthe TRIMISdata baseanalyse women’sissues intra nsport(approximately 2of the

projects). In te rms of the number of p rojects funded, no significant difference exists between Member

States and the EU. However, there are more EU funded re search projects loosely connected to the topic

than strongly connected. Moreover, although some financial progress has been made (8.3% budget increase

in strongly connected projects from FP7 to H2020) the gender dimension in R&I programmes is either not

working or has not been f ully considered. Therefore, further progress in addressing women issues in

transport research is needed.

 Most of the strongly linked projects have the category of multimodal (40%) and road transport (41%), and

for 83 of the projects, their geospatial scope i s “Other” instead of “Urban” or “Infrastructure nod’.

Moreover, 55% of the projects do not a pply in particular to any one of the seven STRIA roadmaps. Travel

behaviour/travel patterns dominate with 41% of the strongly connected projects followed by socio-

economic issues and safety and security, which have 16 projects (30%) in each category.

 In the European transport sector, women are underrepresented compared to their male counterparts (22%

of worker s are female). An analysis of the 769 transport researchers working in 21 European projects