Earlier this week, EQUIMOB’s doctoral researcher Prajwal Nagesh presented recent findings on disability and transport barriers at The Association of People with Disability (APD, India)‘s South India Regional Conference and Capacity Building Programme for disabled people’s organizations (DPOs). The qualitative data was derived from telephonic interviews with organizations working for persons with disabilities. The presented…

The Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design, and Technology and the Association of Designers of India (ADI) hosted the Bangalore design week conference. Multiple plenary and working sessions were held in Bengaluru’s art hub Chitrakala Parishad during the 8th and 10th of December to discuss design interventions to solve real-world challenges. Among the various themes,…

EQUIMOB hosted an online roundtable discussion on ‘Arts for decolonizing mobility research’  on 13th October 2022. The aim of the round-table event was to stimulate discussions on how art-based methods can be used to examine expressions of lived experiences, and how decolonizing the gaze will help us see these imaginations, ideas and explorations of sensory…

Title of thesis: The potential of non-motorised transport for last-mile connectivity in Bengaluru, India Author: Nils Steinhäuser M.Sc: Sustainable Development Year: 2022 Abstract Urban mobility in Indian cities is suffering from traffic congestion, air pollution, road safety, land use conflicts and an overburdened transport network due to population growth, urbanisation, increasing transport demand and high…

EQUIMOB organised a knowledge-exchange event titled ‘Metro Mobilities: equitable access to mobility infrastructures with a focus on MRT systems in cities of Bangladesh & India’ with the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) on 25th April 2022. The event aimed to critically discuss what can Dhaka Metro learn from transport access issues in the Metros…

Dr. Ajay Bailey, the principal investigator of EQUIMOB project, appointed by the Executive Board of Utrecht University as professor at the Faculty of Geosciences on January 1, 2020 to undertake activities in the field of ‘Social Urban Transitions’ intends to assume his appointment by giving an inaugural lecture entitled Inclusion and Equitable Access to the…

On 28th April 2022, over 50 attendees from different parts of the world attended the EQUIMOB webinar – Mobility Matters. The interactive webinar included presentations spread over two sessions. The speakers discussed critical themes around transport for different population groups including social justice, citizenship linked to transport, participation in the city, and different dimensions of women’s…

Prof. Ajay Bailey, the principal investigator of the EQUIMOB project, will deliver a keynote talk at the PUTSPACE conference on 21 April 2022. The talk will focus on the topic ‘Ageing, mobilities and access to public transport in India and Bangladesh’, followed by a discussion with the EQUIMOB team.  Session Chair: Louise Sträuli (Tallinn University…

On 25th March 2022, researchers from EQUIMOB presented findings from their on-going research at the WU Gender and Diversity Conference. The session titled ‘Intersectional inequalities to urban transport: Narratives from India and Bangladesh‘ took place online. The panel explored the impact of unequal transport access on the lives of older adults and women in South Asian…

A knowledge-sharing session from ‘Busina Kathegalu’ (Bengaluru’s Bus Stories) was organised on 7th March 2022. ‘Busina Kathegalu’ is a collaborative effort of EQUIMOB, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), SAMVADA, and Bengaluru Bus Prayanikara Vedike to catalog the perspectives of both Bengaluru’s bus users and the service providers (BMTC) on what the bus system means to…