User Perspective of Privacy in Mobility Pricing Systems: A Survey

Mobility-pricing is one of the avenues leading to the information highway . Using a combination of positioning, communication and information processing, automobile insurance can be priced based on actual mileage of the vehicle. Vehicle s location is periodically and electronically disclosed to a central server for invoice generation. This raises the possibility of this data being used to reveal the driver s identity and social activity. Past research has only been speculative of the motorists privacy perspective . This paper uses mobility-priced insurance as a case study and reports the results of a survey where respondents are asked to indicate their preferred trade-off between location privacy and the setup costs of a hypothetical mobility-priced insurance product. The respondents are also asked about their willingness to reveal location information to various social groups as a function of the time of day and day of week. It is hoped that the results of this research can be used to influence the design of other mobility-based payment