Are Women More Transport Poor Than Men? Exploring Gender Discrepancies in Transport Poverty

This work uses a national index to examine differences in transport poverty between men and women in Canada. We calculated for each metropolitan area the average indices of social disadvantage, transport disadvantage, and transport poverty for men and women. Applying a paired t-test, we observe men have higher inaccessibility, women have higher marginalization, and overall a higher index of transport poverty. Using two metropolitan areas as case studies, we performed a local cluster analysis (LISA) to identify areas with spatial concentrations of transport poverty by gender.