Safe Mobility for Women and the Spatial Availability of Public Transport in Moradabad: A Geographical Study

The presence of a public transport route does not, by itself, mean that people can use it easily or safely. This study examines the four Moradabad e-city-bus routes reported in January 2022 and considers them alongside Census 2011 data, the 2023 Moradabad Smart City project inventory, and a 2024 report on bus shelters. Using these secondary sources, the study establishes a reproducible baseline for examining the structure of the city’s documented bus network. A 4 × 33 route–stop incidence matrix was analysed through descriptive statistics, stop-frequency counts, the Gini coefficient, and pairwise Jaccard similarity. The four routes contained 66 route–stop calls and covered 33 distinct named stops. Route lengths were similar, averaging 16.5 stops (CV = 3.50%). Of the 33 unique stops, 84.8% appeared on at least two routes. The distribution of route frequency across stops was relatively even (Gini = 0.129), although overlap between individual route pairs varied considerably (J = 0.100–0.435). This pattern suggests that services share particular corridors rather than forming a uniformly integrated network. Smart City records also document 20 high-mast lighting installations, 34 public bicycle/e-bike stations with 300 bicycles, and round-the-clock monitoring through the Intelligent Command and Control Centre (ICCC). These facilities may support safer journeys, but the available records cannot establish whether women feel safer or whether their travel has changed. A reliable assessment of walking access, journey times, and women’s safety will require geocoded transport data and evidence disaggregated by gender.