This report provides: a high-levelunderstanding on women's travel patterns that buildsthe foundation for understanding the ways in which they usepublic transport and the degree to which this is met by thepublic transport systems; and a first-cut view onwomen's priorities in public transport and potentialideas for addressing them. The purpose of this report is toinitiate a dialog on these questions and begin to develop apicture of the role transport currently plays inwomen's lives with an understanding of the further roleit can play, given women's specific needs. This studywas carried out in Mumbai. Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay,is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and is thecommercial and entertainment capital of India. Throughoutthis report the authors has used the term 'women'to refer to women and girls above the age of 16 as severalof our survey respondents are students between the ages of17 and 21. However, there is a need for a deeperunderstanding of the public transport needs of school-children; many of them use public transport to go to betterschools that are father away from their homes. The study wason public buses and trains, however, other modes of publictransport available in the city but not included in thestudy are black and yellow metered taxis and auto- rickshaws.
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