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Article: Mind the gender gap in ride-hailing from the demand side

TitleMind the gender gap in ride-hailing from the demand side
Authors
KeywordsGender difference
Gender gap
Ride-hailing demand
Shared economy
Transport equity
Issue Date1-Feb-2023
PublisherElsevier
Citation
Journal of Transport Geography, 2023, v. 107 How to Cite?
Abstract

Improving the transport system to enhance women's access to social opportunities and services has been a key initiative in mitigating gender inequality. Studies have examined women's different travel demands and experiences from men, and the mismatch between women's demands and transport services. However, little attention has been given to the gender gap in ride-hailing usage in the context of the fast development of platform economy-based new transportation services. Thus, this paper examines the nexus between gender and inequalities in ride-hailing from the demand side. Two key questions are explored: if ride-hailing serves women more/less, how does this gender difference in using ride-hailing occur? Does the emergence of ride-hailing mitigate or deteriorate the existing gender gap in capability to move? An innovative integration of big data and time-space geography approaches is developed to examine the multi-source data collected from Chengdu, China. The modelling results indicate that ride-hailing emerges as an affordable travel mode addressing women's demand for long-distance travel in the Chinese context of women's high labour participation and thus the existence of a considerable number of employed women with a sizeable daily activity space and a considerable income. The gender gap in capability to move is thus mitigated by ride-hailing at an aggregate level. This paper calls for a more nuanced and context-specific understanding of how ride-hailing may provide challenges and opportunities to gender equity in daily travel.


Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/337966
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2023 Impact Factor: 5.7
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.791
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dc.contributor.authorQiao, S-
dc.contributor.authorZhang, M-
dc.contributor.authorYeh, AG-
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-11T10:25:15Z-
dc.date.available2024-03-11T10:25:15Z-
dc.date.issued2023-02-01-
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Transport Geography, 2023, v. 107-
dc.identifier.issn0966-6923-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/337966-
dc.description.abstract<p>Improving the transport system to enhance women's access to social opportunities and services has been a key initiative in mitigating <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/gender-inequality" title="Learn more about gender inequality from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages">gender inequality</a>. Studies have examined women's different travel demands and experiences from men, and the mismatch between women's demands and transport services. However, little attention has been given to the gender gap in ride-hailing usage in the context of the fast development of platform economy-based new transportation services. Thus, this paper examines the nexus between gender and <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/inequality" title="Learn more about inequalities from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages">inequalities</a> in ride-hailing from the demand side. Two key questions are explored: if ride-hailing serves women more/less, how does this <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/gender-difference" title="Learn more about gender difference from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages">gender difference</a> in using ride-hailing occur? Does the emergence of ride-hailing mitigate or deteriorate the existing gender gap in capability to move? An innovative integration of big data and time-space <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/geography" title="Learn more about geography from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages">geography</a> approaches is developed to examine the multi-source data collected from Chengdu, China. The modelling results indicate that ride-hailing emerges as an affordable travel mode addressing women's demand for long-distance travel in the Chinese context of women's high <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/labor-participation" title="Learn more about labour participation from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages">labour participation</a> and thus the existence of a considerable number of employed women with a sizeable daily activity space and a considerable income. The gender gap in capability to move is thus mitigated by ride-hailing at an aggregate level. This paper calls for a more nuanced and context-specific understanding of how ride-hailing may provide challenges and opportunities to gender equity in daily travel.<br></p>-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherElsevier-
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Transport Geography-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.subjectGender difference-
dc.subjectGender gap-
dc.subjectRide-hailing demand-
dc.subjectShared economy-
dc.subjectTransport equity-
dc.titleMind the gender gap in ride-hailing from the demand side-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103531-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85147298730-
dc.identifier.volume107-
dc.identifier.eissn1873-1236-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000927819800001-
dc.identifier.issnl0966-6923-

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