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Tracing a path to knowledge? Indicative user impacts of introducing a public transport map in Dhaka, Bangladesh

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  • P. Christopher Zegras
  • Emily Eros
  • Kuan Butts
  • Elizabeth Resor
  • Stephen Kennedy
  • Albert Ching
  • Muntasir Mamun

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The smartphone exemplifies the rhetorical smart city movement. This paper examines one potential use of smartphone technology—mapping public transportation services in a megacity of the Global South. We examine the potential user impacts of introducing a smartphone-generated and analogue-delivered schematic bus map in Dhaka, Bangladesh. After distributing the map, we used a web-based survey to investigate impacts on users’ knowledge, as measured by their stated understanding, navigation and perceptions of the system. While a small and biased sample, the results suggest that the map fills a knowledge gap, provides useful and valued information and may stimulate ‘exploration’ of the city and its bus system.

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  • P. Christopher Zegras & Emily Eros & Kuan Butts & Elizabeth Resor & Stephen Kennedy & Albert Ching & Muntasir Mamun, 2015. "Tracing a path to knowledge? Indicative user impacts of introducing a public transport map in Dhaka, Bangladesh," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 8(1), pages 113-129.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cjrecs:v:8:y:2015:i:1:p:113-129.
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