Movilidad cotidiana y seguridad urbana, desde una perspectiva de género: caso de estudio: Troncal Caracas de Transmilenio

Abstract

This research is supported by the Gender Analysis as a sociocultural category, looking for the understanding of everyday commutes and its relation with safety in the public and interior spaces that are part of the Transmilenio system. The results shown in this paper were obtained from a study called “Daily mobility and public safety in the Caracas Avenue Transmilenio system, from a gender perspective”, which was conducted in the framework of the Master in Urban and Regional Planning at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. The study led to think on social exclusion that occur in urban areas, as they differentially restrict the right to free and safe mobility for men and women. Hence, currently there is a strong public interest in making visible the issues of inequity present in public transportation, both conceptually and in the design and implementation of urban policies which are designed to humanize the use and access to the city (R. Montezuma, 2006).