ABSTRACT
Using data from completed Austrian travel surveys, the gender analysis shows that the interpretations of the data, along with the questionnaires themselves, reveal biases and simplifications. These biases and simplifications obscure crucial aspects in human behaviour concerning mobility, particularly the behaviour of carers in their everyday lives. Therefore, gender-sensitive and qualitative methods have been developed and applied in order to better reveal mobility patterns and needs of people accompanying dependents on their day-to-day trips. This paper presents contemporary empirical research and can be understood as an example of how to incorporate gender aspects into applied mobility research.
