Dear colleagues in the VREF Community! Welcome to join our next online Research Forum within VREF:s Walking as a Mode of Transport program (Walking).

Intersectional approaches in transport research offer a potential to discern and understand how social categorizations such as a person’s class, gender, ability, age, etc. can interconnect and have differing meanings and implications in specific(urban) environments and every-day situations. Intersectionality is increasingly being used in research to understand the needs and vulnerabilities of different groups of pedestrians, as well as to inform inclusive urban design and planning.

This VREF Research Forum offers presentations and discussions of two projects in the Walking as a Mode of Transport Program dealing with intersectionality and walking.

PROGRAM:

Moderator: Maja Karoline Rynning, The Institute of Transport Economics, Norway

Welcome and introduction: Henrik Nolmark, VREF director  

PRESENTATIONS:

“Children’s and Adolescents’ everyday walking: experiences and perspectives from an intersectional perspective”
Presenter: Karen Seaman Cuevas, La Reconquista Peatonal & Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Discussant: TBA

”Developing an intersectional equity framework to support walkability transitions” 
Presenter: Derlie Mateo-Babiano, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Discussant: TBA

Plenary Discussion

Welcome to join us on Wednesday 22 November at 01.00-02.30 PM GMT!