Abstract In the context of continuous worldwide practices in building smart cities and promoting smart mobilities, the literature on the reproduction of transport inequality caused by unequal access to smartphone use is gradually increasing. In addition to physical access to smartphone use, this study contributes a new perspective from the privacy concern on (motivational access) and lack of knowledge (skill access) in using location-based service (LBS) to the understanding of unequal access to transport information during the transition to a smart city. Using a two-stage modelling approach to a dataset collected from two Chinese cities, the study found that women are vulnerable to restricted access to smart transport information due to the privacy concern on and lack of knowledge of using LBS. People aged over 50 tend to be restricted to the traditional source of transport information due to the lack of knowledge of using LBS. Moreover, city-sensitive factors should be considered. Muslims in Urumqi are vulnerable to restricted access to smart transport information compared with Han Chinese because of the lack of knowledge of using LBS. In Wuhan, manual workers/attendants are vulnerable to restricted access to smart transport information compared with those working in offices for the same reason. The lack of knowledge affects the transformation from a traditional source user to a smart source user, whereas the privacy concern restrains individuals from using multiple smart sources. From these findings, policy recommendations for mitigating the smartness-induced unequal access to transport information are proposed.

    Highlights The promotion of smart mobility induces unequal access to smartphone use, smartphone-based mobility services and transport information provisions. Privacy concern and the lack of knowledge in smartphone use are significant factors for the unequal access to transport information among social groups. Women tend to have restricted access to smart source of transport information due to both the lack of knowledge in and the privacy concern on smartphone use. Middle/old aged, Muslims and Manual workers tend to be restricted to traditional source of transport information due to the lack of knowledge in smartphone use. Lack of knowledge in smartphone use impedes people from using smart transport information while privacy concern reduce the intensity of using smart transport information.


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    Titel :

    Smartness-induced transport inequality: Privacy concern, lacking knowledge of smartphone use and unequal access to transport information


    Beteiligte:
    Zhang, Mengzhu (Autor:in) / Zhao, Pengjun (Autor:in) / Qiao, Si (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Transport Policy ; 99 ; 175-185


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2020-08-16


    Format / Umfang :

    11 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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