Int. J. Liability and Scientific Enquiry, Vol. x, No. x, xxxx 1 Copyright © 200x Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. A survey on users’ willingness-to-pay for privacy in mobility pricing systems Muhammad Usman Iqbal* and Samsung Lim School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems, The University of New South Wales, Australia E-mail: m.iqbal@student.unsw.edu.au E-mail: s.lim@unsw.edu.au *Corresponding author Abstract: Mobility-pricing is one of the avenues leading to the ‘information highway’ where road-pricing, such as automobile insurance, can be priced based on actual mileage of the vehicle. The periodic transmission of vehicle’s location for payments raises privacy issues. 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 gauging respondent opinion about willingness-to-pay for privacy. It is hoped that the results of this research can be used to influence the design of other mobility-pricing systems. Keywords: location-privacy; mobility pricing; transport surveillance; tracking; anonymity; global positioning system; GPS; telematics. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Iqbal, M.U. and Lim, S. (xxxx) ‘A survey on users’ willingness-to-pay for privacy in mobility pricing systems’, Int. J. Liability and Scientific Enquiry, Vol. x, No. x, pp.xxx–xxx. Biographical notes: Muhammad Usman Iqbal is a PhD candidate at the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems, The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from UNSW and a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from FAST Institute of Computer Science, Karachi, Pakistan. His area of research is privacy-aware automotive telematics where he seeks an understanding of ‘locational privacy’ and the importance of designing privacy-respecting technology solutions. Prior to post-graduate studies, he has worked in industry as a Software Engineer for two years. Samsung Lim is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems, The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. For the past 15 years his research has been focused on the area of GNSS and GIS. His research interests are in theoretical problems related to RTK-GPS and applying geo-spatial information technologies to real-world problems. He received his BA and MA in Mathematics from Seoul National University and his PhD in Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics from the University of Texas at Austin.