Women’s Constrained Travel Behavior: Austrian Case Study

The May-June 2019 TR News includes a featured story that explores how when someone feels unsafe, it can affect their travel intentions, behavior, and patterns. This constrained travel behavior—which manifests variously as avoiding certain modes, changing routes, and employing self-defense measures—is still a fairly unexplored topic. The authors present the methodology and findings of their study, based in Austria, of the ways in which harassment, assaults, and other frightening situations have affected women’s travel behavior.

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