2023 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
A study on identifying the advantages and challenges of rideshare services for female commuters in big cities of developing countries
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23K17008
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| Research Institution | Kyushu University |
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Principal Investigator |
Abedin Nuren 九州大学, ユヌス&椎木ソーシャル・ビジネス研究センター, 学術研究員 (70961704)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2023-04-01 – 2026-03-31
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| Keywords | Female Mobility Needs / Developing Countries / Community Rideshare / Transportation issues / Mobility DX / Advantages of rideshare |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Here are the summary of research achievements
1. Developed the Conceptual work for data grab tool development that would collect the travel-related data
2. Complete the task of data grab tool software design, specification requirements, and a portion of software development tasks.
3. Attended the ITS symposium for knowledge acquisition and networking for future research collaboration.
4. Conducted data collection on female mobility belonging to families belonging to the university community in order to understand the mobility behaviors of mothers and how child-chauffeuring duties impact their life design, mobility pattern, and involvement in economic activities such as jobs, business, or pursuing a career.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
The work progress is slightly delayed due to facing the following technical challenges in the R&D phase of the data grab tool development: (1) The continuous function of the app, even when in background mode on a mobile phone, causes heating of the device at very high environmental temperatures; (2) Noise level detection faces barring by device in-built settings, causing interruption in the noise level data collection; and (3) Synchronization with the right sensors through smart watches was facing some challenges; solving it took longer time than estimated time frame.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The plan for this year is to complete the development of the data grab tool as early as possible and start the travel environmental data collection. Also, I will analyze the family mobility data collected in FY23, and incur activities for making documentation and academic publications.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Due to the technical difficulties in data grab tool development, that task was not completed in FY23. This task is expected to be completed in FY24, and the software development fees will be paid.
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