Equitable Everyday Journeys Inclusive Mobilities for South Asian Cities

1. Introduction
Ajay Bailey, Sobin George, and Prajwal Nagesh

PART I: INTERSECTIONAL INEQUITIES

2. Pregnant Women’s Mobility in One of the Coastal Municipalities of Bangladesh
Zakia Sultana

3. Urban Marginality in Post-liberalised India: Urban Mobility Innovations, Rickshawwalas and Production of Marginality in Delhi
Sitaram Kumbhar

4. Mobilityscape of Older Adults in Coastal Communities in Bangladesh
Bishawjit Mallick, Ajay Bailey

5. “The modes are too expensive for me, but I am helpless”: High costs of urban mobility and inequalities of accessing public transport among wheelchair users in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Selim Jahangir, Ajay Bailey , Md. Musleh Uddin Hasan, 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, Yutika Vora

8. Fare-free Travel for Women on Public Buses: Lessons from the Shakti programme in Bangalore, India
Harpreet Kaur, Vinay Baindur, Govind Gopakumar

9. Gender-Inclusive Safety and Mobility at Chattogram, Bangladesh through a Quality Incentive Contract Scheme
Soma Dhar, Md. Shanawez Hossain

10. Actions speak louder: identifying tacit needs of women commuters in India through participatory prototyping
Dhriti Dhaundiyal, 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, Sutanuka Banerjee

PART IV: MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURES and MARGINALIZATION

14. Assessing Viability of Metro 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, Abdul Hannan

16. NMT Initiatives to Improve Intra Urban Mobility in Bengaluru
G.Shivakumar Nayka, 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, Divya Sussana Patil

19. Towards an inclusive transport mobility framework for research and policy interventions in South Asian Cities
Sobin George, Prajwal Nagesh, Ajay Bailey

Biography

Ajay Bailey is Professor of Geographies of Health, Inclusion, and Development at the International Development Studies group at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University. He works at the interface of anthropology, geography, demography, and public health.

Sobin George is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Change and Development, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru, India. His research and teaching focus on social gradients in health, work and health, marginality and development, informality and labour rights and mobility and welfare outcomes. He has authored Medical Innovation and Disease Burden (2021), The Caste Embeddedness of Rural Public Health Services (2018) and Work and Health in Informal Economy (2016). He has edited volumes including Change and Mobility in Contemporary Indian Society (2019), Redefined Labour Spaces (2017) and Health System Strengthening (2016) and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals.

Prajwal Nagesh is Assistant Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He earned his PhD from the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His research focuses on urban inequalities, the political economy of urbanisation, urban transport, and caste studies, using qualitative research methods.