Gender and Transport in Less Developed Countries: A Background Paper in Preparation for CSD-9 Deike Peters 1 Co-Coordinator, UN CSD Caucus on Sustainable Transport Background Paper for the Expert Workshop "Gender Perspectives for Earth Summit 2002: Energy, Transport, Information for Decision-Making" Berlin, Germany, 10 - 12 January 2001 Jointly hosted by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety and the Heinrich Boell Foundation Paper commissioned by UNED Forum as input for the workshop UNED Forum, 3 Whitehall Court, London SW1A 2EL, UK www.unedforum.org and www.earthsummit2002.org Workshop website www.earthsummit2002.org/workshop 1 Institute for City and Regional Planning (ISR) Technical University Berlin Rohrdamm 20-22, RO 123 13629 Berlin, Germany Tel: +49 30 38006 134 Fax: +49 30 38006 117 deike.peters@berlin.de