Equitable Everyday Journeys

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements.1 Introduction; Ajay Bailey, Sobin George, and Prajwal Nagesh. PART I; Intersectional inequities. 2 Pregnant women’s mobility in coastal municipalities of Bangladesh: a study of transport inequality; Zakia Sultana. 3 Urban marginality in post-liberalised India: urban mobility innovations, rickshaw-walas and production of marginality in Delhi; Sitaram Kumbhar 4 Mobilityscape of older adults in coastal communities in Bangladesh;
Bishawjit Mallick and Ajay Bailey. 5 “The modes are too expensive for me, but I am helpless”: affordability and access inequalities to public transport among wheelchair users in Dhaka, Bangladesh;
Selim Jahangir, Ajay Bailey, Md. Musleh Uddin Hasan,and Shanawez Hossain. 6 “Catcalling is so normal”: gendered experiences using public transport in Pakistan; Shanel Khaliq. PART II; Policies and interventions to transport policy. 7 Minding the mobility gap in the face of climate change: policy and knowledge in small city contexts; Tarun Sharma, Nimisha Samadhiya, and Yutika Vora. 8 Fare-free travel for women on public buses: lessons from the Shakti programme in Bangalore, India; Harpreet Kaur, Vinay Baindur, and Govind Gopakumar. 9 Gender-inclusive safety and mobility at Chattogram, Bangladesh through a quality incentive contract scheme;Soma Dhar and Md. Shanawez Hossain. 10 Actions speak louder: identifying tacit needs of women commuters in India through participatory prototyping; Dhriti Dhaundiyal and Nishant Sharma. PART III ; Popular representation of inequalities.11 Calcutta tramways: a tale of surviving heritage on wheels; Priscilla N. Rozario.12 Transported in the city: reading access, age, and class in Indian cityscapes;Shobha Elizabeth John.13 Women’s mobility and public transport in India with special reference to West Bengal; Lipika Kankaria and Sutanuka Banerjee. PART IV; Mobility infrastructures and marginalisation. 14 Assessing viability of metro rail in Tier-II cities: a socioeconomic study; Chitresh Shrivastva.15 Traffic congestion and mobility challenges in the hilly town of Gangtok, India; Kessang Choden Sherpa and Abdul Hannan.16 NMT Initiatives to improve intra-urban mobility in Bengaluru; G. Shivakumar Nayka and Kala Seetharam Sridhar. 17 Does traffic congestion motivate for increasing use of private vehicles? Evidence from Bengaluru city, India; Vijayalakshmi S.18 Social barriers to urban mobility for people with disabilities in India and Bangladesh: stakeholders’ perspectives and experiences; Selim Jahangir, Saakshi Joshi, Seama Mowri, Prajwal Nagesh, and Divya Sussana Patil. 19 Towards an inclusive transport mobility framework for research and policy interventions in South Asian cities; Sobin George, Prajwal Nagesh, and Ajay Bailey. Index.