Providing safe and affordable transportation to reduce female students dropout: A case study on college girls in rural Bangladesh

Abedin, Nuren; Kamau, Jecinta; Kitaoka, Hiroko; Okajima, Hiroshi; Okada, Masaharu; Fukuda, Akira; Ahmed, Ashir

doi:10.1109/smc.2016.7844879

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“…This may be true for individually as well as for institutions. In particular, the digital economy and its byproducts such as ride sharing services can yield significant benefits in terms of productivity and more entrepreneurial opportunities [17] for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of developing countries.…”

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Travel Behavior of SME Employees in Their Work Commute in Emerging Cities: A Case Study in Dhaka City, Bangladesh

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Corporate employees like to save the time they spend commuting to work. However, public transport in many emerging cities is not scheduled. Only big enterprises can afford scheduled staff buses. Rideshare services (e.g., Uber, Lyft, Pathao) can be a good alternative but are not affordable for every individual. This study aims to design a group rideshare service as a sustainable alternative for potential employees. For that purpose, it is important to know their commuting pattern. A survey was carried out on 314 employees of 20 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) working in one office complex. This paper reports their current travel pattern in terms of distance, cost, time, and mode of transportations to measure their potentiality to use a group rideshare service uniquely designed for a work commute. This paper recommends that employees living within a distance of 2.5–15 km, currently using motorized vehicle for their work commute, who can spend $40 USD a month for work commute and agree to a mutually-determined commuting schedule are the most fitting potential users for an effective and financially sustainable rideshare service for the studied community. The same methodology can be used to obtain the potential ride share users to design a ride share model for other similar communities.

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“…Our previous research [17] investigated the suitability of rideshare services for rural communities in Bangladesh. A ride share model for urban female workers was proposed in our earlier work [18].…”

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Travel Behavior of SME Employees in Their Work Commute in Emerging Cities: A Case Study in Dhaka City, Bangladesh

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“…With a population of approximately 17 million and an area of land of 1.528 square kilometers, Dhaka will always require more transportation than is reasonable. In 2015 Bangladesh Road Transport Authority projected that there were 3419,884 registered cars in the entire nation and 1115,654 in Dhaka alone [10]. This estimate was made up to April 2018, thus the actual number may be higher.…”

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