35 Amendments of María Soraya RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS related to 2021/2046(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas a sustainable and smart mobility strategy must promote the reduction of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the sector and reduce its overall environmental impact based on the latest scientific findings, while ensuring that people’s needs and individual preferences are catered for and helping to achieve sustainable development and economic, social and territorial cohesion;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to include gender mainstreaming in transport-related legislation, policy, programmes and action, to include a definition of gender criteria in the design of mobility planning, to support cooperation with stakeholders and the exchange of good practices to increase the number of women in transport professions, and to improve the collection and analysis of sex-disaggregategender-sensitive statistics and data on behaviour, needs and concerns in mobility, and to develop open data to support transport innovation;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Is deeply concerned with the underrepresentation of women in the transport sector, considering women occupy only 22% of the total workforce in the transport sector,1a and is among the EU economy’s most male-dominated sectors, in all likelihood due to gender biases, persisting stereotypes and lack of female role models. __________________ 1aBusiness case to increase female employment in transport - Publications Office of the EU (europa.eu), 2019. https://op.europa.eu/en/publication- detail/-/publication/6f833428-54f9-11e9- a8ed-01aa75ed71a1
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the Commission and the Members States to invest in programmes that reduce the gender gap in smart mobility, to increase the number of women in transport professions and to raise awareness on equality issues, such the Transport Innovation Gender Observatory (TInnGO), the European Observatory for Gender Smart Transport or the “More Women in Transport – Platform for Change” initiative, and to implement their Gender Action Plans and best practices; calls for further funding to be made available to such projects;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls on the Commission and Member States to further facilitate women’s use of sustainable transport through gender-sensitive design and incentives, as women currently use low- carbon transport more than men1a __________________ 1aCivitas Smart choices for cities Gender equality and mobility: mind the gap!, 2020, p.15 https://civitas.eu/sites/default/files/civ_pol -an2_m_web.pdf
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the EU’s Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy aims to make mobility affordable and accessible in all EU regions and for all passengers including those with disabilities and reduced mobility;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Highlights that the under- representation of women who work in STEM related positions within the transport sector, such as artificial intelligence (AI), is a matter of concern, as it can negatively affect the design, development and implementation of these technologies, causing the replication of existing discriminatory practices and stereotypes and the development of ‘gender-biased algorithms’ in new mobility products. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that Artificial Intelligence respects the principles and values of gender equality and non-discrimination as enshrined in Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas according to the International Energy Agency's 2021 report on Net Zero Emissions by 2050, in order to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 all new passengers cars put on the market globally would need to be zero-emission by 2035;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the fact that women tend to use new mobility services like car sharing and service-based transport options such as leasing less often, as their daily travel patterns are very different to and more complex than men’s1a ; stresses that smart and sustainable mobility solutions should be designed fairly to improve mobility and accessibility for all and taking into account the special situation of carers in the transport system; __________________ 1Kawgan-Kagan, I., Popp, M., ‘Sustainability and Gender: a mixed- method analysis of urban women’s mode choice with particular consideration of e- carsharing’, Transportation Research Procedia, Vol 31, 2018, pp. 146-159.
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers that limited access to transport solutions for women can be a barrier to employment and reduce access to education and training, healthcare, as well as leading to social isolation;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Recalls that mobility is heavily shaped by the gender roles performed by women and men. Highlights that women spend on average, 42% of their total commuting time in a typical week on the mobility of care and account for 80% of people in charge of mobility of care.1a Recalls that most of these caring trips are made by women using sustainable modes of transport, such as walking and using public transport, and tend to involve shorter, local and more frequent trips within a short time span. Urges transport planners to find a balance between the supply of transport systems designed for work- related trips and the unmet mobility needs for care giving purposes; __________________ 1aOECD Transport Innovation for Sustainable Development A Gender Perspective (2021), P.17, https://www.itf- oecd.org/sites/default/files/docs/transport- innovation-sustainable-development- gender.pdf
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission, the Member States, local authorities and the relevant stakeholders to provide a transport system that is tailored to women’s needs and their favoured modes of transport by improving accessibility, safety (particularly during the pandemic) and comfort, andwhile prioritising adequate investment accordingly and addressing the intersectional discrimination to cover the specific needs of vulnerable groups, including women in rural areas, women with disabilities, women of colour, migrant, ethnic minority and Roma women, older women, single mothers, LGBTIQ+ people, women with caring responsibilities, and women with socio- economic disadvantages;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Takes note ofWelcomes the Commission’s communication entitled ‘Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy – putting European transport on track for the future’ and points out shortcomings that need to be overcome; stresses that the sector's potential to reduce its emissions is greatly dependent on investment in environmentally sustainable public transport systems, which must give rise to a paradigm shift in mobility, which is overly focused on individual transport;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Highlights that women are 47% more likely than males to sustain a serious to fatal injuries in a car collision as a consequence of a data bias,1a whereby cars were designed and tested with ‘male crash dummies and not with ‘female’ dummies. Recalls that female dummies ,added in the early 2000s, represents a 5th-percentile woman — under 152cm tall and 49 kg— and thus doesn't consider the other 95% of women; __________________ 1a J. Forman et al, Automobile injury trends in the contemporary fleet: Belted occupants in frontal collisions (2019) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1 080/15389588.2019.1630825?utm_source =newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_c ampaign=newsletter_axiosautonomousve hicles&stream=autonomous-vehicles
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Urges the Commission to approve new standardized safety and dummy systems, to take into account the different muscle strength, fat distribution and bone density of females;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers women’s mobility to be more likely impacted by unsafe experiences and concerns for personal safety, as a result, women are exposed to greater levels of “travel burden” than men relating mostly to cost, stress, time poverty, lack of accessibility and above all, safety. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take initiatives to make public spaces in European cities safe and free of harassment by sharing best practices and improving legislation, developing gender based metrics and indicators, management, policies, infrastructure and security technology;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that citizens must be at the heart of the transition to sustainable mobility, and that a multi-pathway approach is the most effective way to deliver efficient emissions reductions while ensuring mobility remains accessible and affordable to all;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Recalls that no single mode of transport alone can satisfy all mobility needs; Stresses that all transport modes including the use of private vehicles must remain as part of future mobility plans in order to strive for a sustainable and resilient mobility, following the principle of multimodality.
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls for ambitious CO2 standards for new cars going beyond 2030 that bring the EU firmly on the trajectory to having virtually only zero-emissions cars on the roads by 2050, which will be necessary in order to reach the EU objective of economy-wide climate neutrality no later than 2050, as shown by the Commission in its impact assessment for the 2030 target; believes that EU manufacturers should be given a clear policy signal, investment certainty, and the right incentives to keep their technological leadership in this transformation, and therefore supports performance-based standards respecting technological neutrality that lead to the deployment of zero-emissions vehicles; underlines the need to account for the impacts of zero- emission standards on the different parts of the existing automotive value chain and calls for accompanying measures targeting the whole value chain in all parts of the EU, focusing on small and medium sized suppliers, to enable the transition;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Underlines that the transition to zero-emission mobility must be accompanied by binding standards supporting the adequate deployment of infrastructure as well as higher targets for the deployment of charging points throughout the EU;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Stresses that ambitious investments public and private are needed in order to ensure charging and refuelling infrastructure installations across the European Union.
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Stresses that sustainable and smart mobility needs to be also affordable; calls on Member States for specific compensation schemes and the effective use of taxation in order to reduce the costs on the most sustainable transport alternatives and ensure a socially and geographically fair transition;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 g (new)
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1g. Calls for support to rural, peripheral, sparsely populated and remote areas in the shift towards sustainable and smart mobility to guarantee unhindered access to affordable mobility for all;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 h (new)
Paragraph 1 h (new)
1h. Calls for measures to support the transition to zero-emissions vehicles in the whole automotive value chain in all parts of the EU, focusing on small and medium sized suppliers, in particular through a dedicated transition fund for the automotive sector that helps mitigate the negative effects on employment and local economies, in the same way as the Just Transition Fund is targeting the energy transition;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 i (new)
Paragraph 1 i (new)
1i. Calls on the Commission to develop life-cycle assessment methodologies to measure the full climate impact of cars placed on the European market, as called for in Regulation (EU) 2019/631 on CO2 emission performance standards for new passenger cars and vans;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 j (new)
Paragraph 1 j (new)
1j. Believes that accessibility fosters freedom of movement especially for people with disabilities, families with children and the elderly; calls for public spaces to be made completely accessible;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Takes the view that a sustainable mobility strategy must encompass all methods and modes of transport, increasing the modal share of the most sustainable means of transport, as well as the different levels of travel – local, regional, national and international – and should be inextricably linked to suitable spatial planning and land use; Calls for the need to develop mechanisms that support the modal shift whilst ensuring Europe's competitiveness and innovation; underlines the particular challenges of mobility in urban areas and advocates an urban public transport pricing policy that promotes innovation and digitalization to incentivises greater use thereof;
Amendment 175 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Advocates that the objective of global emissions reduction in the transport sector should be grounded in a regulatory approach that is no longer exclusively focused on market-based instruments, makes each economic agent responsieconomically, socially and environmentally sustainable, and paves the way for the rapid dissemination of the best available technologies.
Amendment 196 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission to develop a comprehensive policy framework to stimulate the demand for zero emission vehicles; Underlines that environmental standards should be accompanied by supportive measures, such as the revision of the Energy Taxation Directive to align taxation policies to the ambitious energy and climate targets.
Amendment 204 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Notes the role played by battery technologies in the decarbonisation of mobility systems; calls for the promotion and stimulation of battery production in Europe, as well as for the creation of a coherent and supportive regulatory framework for sustainable batteries, in line with the principles of circular economy and wider EU decarbonisation objectives;
Amendment 208 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls for ambitious post-Euro-6 emission standards for cars, vans, lorries and buses in line with the commitments made under the European Green Deal;
Amendment 213 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Underlines that low- and zero- emission fuels, such as hydrogen and synthetic and bio-fuels, should be used in accordance with the ‘energy efficiency first’ principle and a system efficiency approach, mainly for those transport modes where direct electrification is not possible or not yet market-ready;
Amendment 219 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Notes the role of hydrogen in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, in the recovery of the EU economy and in paving the way for climate neutrality in 2050; Notes the potential for EU leadership in clean hydrogen; calls for strategic public and private investments for the production and use of clean hydrogen, for the creation of an enabling network of infrastructure and for research and innovation;
Amendment 224 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
4f. Calls for accelerated EU-wide introduction of electronic turning assistants for trucks and heavy duty vehicles in order to reduce the number of grave and fatal accidents;