TY - GEN
T1 - Providing safe and affordable transportation to reduce female students dropout
T2 - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2016
AU - Abedin, Nuren
AU - Kamau, Jecinta
AU - Kitaoka, Hironobu
AU - Okajima, Hiroshi
AU - Okada, Masaharu
AU - Fukuda, Akira
AU - Ahmed, Ashir
N1 - Funding Information:
Toyota Motor Corporation funded the project. Global Communication Center in Grameen Communications assisted us to set up the experimental environment and collect the data.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2017/2/6
Y1 - 2017/2/6
N2 - We carried out an experiment to observe the role of transportation for adolescent female students in rural Bangladesh. A senior high school (in Bangladesh, they call it a college) student spends 180-230 minutes to travel only 22km (11 km, single trip) on an average to commute from home to college. Local transport (Tomtom) stops are not always close to their home. The walk 4km to get to the nearest Tomtom stop. The Tomtom does not have a regular timetable. In worst case, the students wait 30 minutes until the Tomtom driver finds sufficient number of passengers. This 11km distance is Female students find it uncomfortable to share congested space with male passengers. They cannot raise their voice when they face sexual harassment inside the car or when they walk. The parents of the female students find it safer to stop their education and arrange a marriage. We proposed a regular college bus service with an adaptive time schedule that follows the routine of the students. In order to make the service sustainable, we designed a model of multi service vehicle named SSW, so that it can earn extra income during its idle time. We concluded that the operational cost can be covered through the SSW model. We identified new requirements for multiservice vehicle to satisfy the needs of a rural community.
AB - We carried out an experiment to observe the role of transportation for adolescent female students in rural Bangladesh. A senior high school (in Bangladesh, they call it a college) student spends 180-230 minutes to travel only 22km (11 km, single trip) on an average to commute from home to college. Local transport (Tomtom) stops are not always close to their home. The walk 4km to get to the nearest Tomtom stop. The Tomtom does not have a regular timetable. In worst case, the students wait 30 minutes until the Tomtom driver finds sufficient number of passengers. This 11km distance is Female students find it uncomfortable to share congested space with male passengers. They cannot raise their voice when they face sexual harassment inside the car or when they walk. The parents of the female students find it safer to stop their education and arrange a marriage. We proposed a regular college bus service with an adaptive time schedule that follows the routine of the students. In order to make the service sustainable, we designed a model of multi service vehicle named SSW, so that it can earn extra income during its idle time. We concluded that the operational cost can be covered through the SSW model. We identified new requirements for multiservice vehicle to satisfy the needs of a rural community.
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U2 - 10.1109/SMC.2016.7844879
DO - 10.1109/SMC.2016.7844879
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85015799113
T3 - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2016 - Conference Proceedings
SP - 4130
EP - 4134
BT - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2016 - Conference Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 9 October 2016 through 12 October 2016
ER -