Si QIAO, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Anthony Gar-On YEH, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Mengzhu ZHANG, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Improving the transport system to enhance women’s access to social opportunities and services has been a key initiative to mitigate gender inequality advocated by the United Nations. Efforts are made to determine women’s different travel demands and experiences from men, and the mismatch between women’s demands and transport services. However, little attention has been paid to gender inequality in ride-hailing use in the context of fast development of shared and smart mobilities. This paper contributes the fundamental study systematically addressing the nexus between gender and inequalities in ride-hailing. A key question is explored: what factors restrict ride-hailing serving women given the widely recognized unequal ride-hailing usage between women and men? A big data perspective of mobile phone and time-space geography approaches is developed to examine the city-wide ride-hailing inequality from multi-source data collected from Chengdu, China. The modeling results show that women’s restricted activity space and less affordability to transport service made women restricted from using ride-hailing. This paper provides policy implications to improve ride-hailing provision towards a more gender-equitable urban future. It calls for a more nuanced understanding of how ride-hailing and smart mobility may provide both challenges and opportunities to gender equity in daily travel.
Mots clés : Gender gap|Gender inequality|ride-hailing|smart mobility|transport equity
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