Mobility is essentially a gendered phenomenon. This includes its social, cultural, and spatial aspects that shape a person's access and use of available transportation systems and, consequently, their ability to lead quality lives. Urban transport planners and policymakers, therefore, must take it upon themselves to adequately understand and account for these gendered aspects when planning for city-level mobility systems. Transport planners in India, however, have approached women's travel needs from a 'safety and security' lens alone through several standalone initiatives. This thesis argues that women's unmet travel needs and related vulnerabilities in urban India, including the norms and structural conditions that help shape them, are a product of this one-sided, poorly informed, and scattered approach to gender-sensitive urban transport planning.Panchkula, a north Indian city, is selected as the case study which captures well the dynamics of prevalent gender norms, a typical mix of government-provided and informally-run public transport systems, and some innovative planning initiatives, that at least rhetorically, engage with the Indian state's broader agenda of developing safe and smart cities. The study adopts a mixed-methods research design involving travel diaries, interviews, secondary document analysis, and observation-based methods. It demonstrates that women across different age and income groups constantly negotiate between available time, transport options, and the need to stay safe when accessing and using transportation systems. The lack of a safe, reliable, and affordable public transport system in Panchkula, thus, acts as a hidden yet essential dimension in strengthening the existing gender-based inequalities. A sense of dependency amongst women of varying age and income groups exists on household members (often male) for chauffeuring purposes. By recognizing and theorizing this popular way of ‘traveling as a dependent’ among women, often not captured under traditional transport travel mode categories, this research corrects an inherent gender bias in transport data collection and decision-making frameworks. Extensive planner interviews further reveal how transport planning decisions based on current institutional knowledge are largely gender-blind. Poor knowledge about incorporating gender-based needs in transportation is the biggest constraint facing planning professionals. Additionally, the existing informal planning practices, essential to operate within tight budgets and other capacity limitations, do not allow for proactive gender-sensitive planning. Patriarchal beliefs and dismissive attitudes of those in planning positions further challenge gender mainstreaming in transportation. This thesis makes a case for a more comprehensive approach to gender-sensitive urban transport planning in Indian cities for which intense training, sensitization, and realignment of current planning frameworks to reflect women’s travel needs would be essential.