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, 2021 As transit ridership continues to fall in many cities across the globe, key policy debates continue around whether Uber and other ride-hailing services are contributing to this trend. This research explores the effects of the introduction of ride-hailing
Inter-American Development Bank
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract The issue of inequality caused by algorithms, termed ‘algorithmic inequality’, has recently attracted scholarly attention in many disciplines due to its profound implications for society. While the body of literature on algorithmic inequality has grown, there remains a lack of comprehensive understanding of its nature, drivers, and impact ...
Shiwei Jia, Jia Tina Du, Hui Yan
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African Twist of Circular Economy: Insights, Policies and Recommendations
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While the circular economy (CE) has gained traction, this paper argues that mainstream CE approaches risk being misaligned in the African context. Drawing on a mixed‐methods synthesis of empirical studies, policy documents and cross‐country examples, the study shows that Africa's CE transition is fragmented and uneven, leaving the continent at
Michael Odei Erdiaw‐Kwasie +4 more
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IET Smart CitiesWith the recent advances in smartphones and Internet technologies, ride‐hailing services (such as Uber and Didi) have emerged and changed the travel modes that residents use.
Jun Zhong +3 more
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how working middle‐class women in Karachi navigate the intersecting burdens of care and self‐care within the affective, infrastructural, and ideological conditions of urban precarity. Drawing on twelve semi‐structured interviews conducted across homes, workplaces, and cafés in the city, seven of which anchor the primary ...
Muhammad Huzaifa
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021 The paradigms of taxis and ride-hailing, the two major players in the personal mobility market, are compared systematically and empirically in a unified spatial–temporal context.
Di Wang, Tomio Miwa, Takayuki Morikawa
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Necessity and Proportionality of Restrictions on Ride-hailing Services
GRUR International, 2021 Tourism Vehicles with Driver; with case note by Gonzalo Maria Nazar de la ...
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Practical Secure Transaction for Privacy-Preserving Ride-Hailing Services [PDF]
Security and Communication Networks, 2018 Ride-hailing service solves the issue of taking a taxi difficultly in rush hours. It is changing the way people travel and has had a rapid development in recent years. Since the service is offered over the Internet, there is a great deal of uncertainty about security and privacy. Focusing on the issue, we changed payment pattern of existing systems and
Chenglong Cao, Xiaoling Zhu
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Property Rights Entrepreneurship: The Drive for Product, Asset, and Resource Excludability
Managerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Property rights are foundational to market economies, and entrepreneurial activity depends heavily on the excludability afforded by property rights. Yet, the role of entrepreneurs in shaping the evolution of property rights has been so thoroughly taken for granted that it often vanishes from analyses.
Thomas J. Dean +2 more
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Ride-hailing versus traditional taxi services
, 2022 Lebanon is experiencing a structural transformation of its economy and labour market, but at the same time has been hit by a series of crises in recent years. In the face of rising unemployment, it is often argued that digital platforms can offer new employment and income-generating opportunities. The platform economy’s role in structural change is not
Jad Yassin, Uma Rani
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