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Author : Meleckidzedeck Khayesi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Transport workers
ISBN : IND:30000061198382
Author : Orieko Chitere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121837400
Author : Roger Behrens,Dorothy McCormick,David Mfinanga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317910107
Public transport systems in contemporary Sub-Saharan African cities are heavily reliant upon paratransit services. These services are defined as informal transportation which operates between the public and individual private spheres. In Africa paratransit is characterized by low quality of vehicles and chaotic management but it also provides cheap, accessible and flexible transport solutions for the urban poor. It is typically poorly regulated and operates as a set of informal businesses. A common result of weak public sector regulation and a fare strategy in which owners claim a fixed daily revenue target and drivers who keep the variable balance as income, is destructive competition and poor quality of service. There is an incontrovertible case for improving the quality, reliability and coverage of public transport systems, and some city governments have attempted to do so by initiating reform projects that envisage the phased replacement of paratransit operations with formalised bus rapid transit systems. In this book the authors argue that there are, however, path dependencies and constraints that limit the possible extent of public transport system reform. Paratransit operations also have some inherent advantages with respect to demand responsiveness and service innovation. Attempts to eradicate paratransit may be neither pragmatic nor strategic. Two future scenarios are likely: hybrid systems comprised of both paratransit and formally planned modes; and systems improved by upgrades and strengthened regulation of existing paratransit services. The business strategies and aspirations of incumbent paratransit operators in three case cities – Cape Town, Dar es Salaam and Nairobi – are discussed, as well as their attitudes towards emerging public transport reform projects. International experiences of hybrid system regulation and paratransit business development are reviewed in order to explore policy options. The authors contend that policies recognising paratransit operators, and seeking contextually appropriate complementarity with formalised planned services, will produce greater benefits than policies ignoring their continued existence.
Author : Patrick O. Alila,Poul O. Pedersen
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Small business
ISBN : 0865439648
Small and micro enterprises have been an important theme in development thinking since 1950s, yet for a variety of reasons East African governments and administrations have been sceptical about their role in their own countries' development. While many constraints have been lifted by the more liberal policies of the 1990s, many micro entrepreneurs and their labourers, primarily women, are still fighting for an enlarged social space. The papers in this book describe these strategies of negotiation between rural micro enterprises and the new liberalised rural economy.
Author : X. Godard,I. Fatonzoun
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9058093999
This title covers topics such as: the urban travel mobility of social groups; transport, urbanism and accessibility; mass transport investment; regulation, integration and financing public transport; road safety; and strategic approach, institution and governance.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015078734640
Author : John Thoburn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351160025
Professor Ian Livingstone is one of a small group of British development economists who have achieved international renown and recognition. The objective of this book is to pay tribute to his life's work, particularly those aspects which related to key but challenging development issues. These issues include, at a broad level, the understanding of the economic forces determining the development of low income economies, more detailed micro work on agricultural development (irrigation in particular), decentralisation and local government finance, small scale enterprises, and large scale manufacturing development. Themes running through his work relate to his over-riding concern for rigour and for socio-economic justice. Ian Livingstone consistently used the traditional tools of economic analysis as a means to increase understanding of development issues - in a way which was, itself, just as radical as the contributions of political scientists and sociologists. This volume has been produced with similar aims.
Author : Meleckidzedeck Khayesi,Fredrick Muyia Nafukho
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317116868
Transport discourse often concentrates on what is missing from transport policy and practice in developing countries vis-à-vis high-income countries rather than articulating local creativity in responding to transport needs as revealed in informal public transport modes such as matatu, motorcycle, bicycle and animal transport. This book helps to correct some of the tendency of inadequate contextualization of knowledge, technology and practice learning and transfer from one setting to another in transport and other development programmes. While countries such as Kenya have ambitions to develop their transport systems to fit into the globalized transport system, they also need to plan transport for ordinary life in both urban and rural areas. The matatu service, provided by privately-owned transport carriers, can be seen as a mirror of the life of Kenya, revealing how indigenous African entrepreneurship and capitalism straddles various economic, political and social systems. This book offers a phenomenological and situated analysis of the matatu entrepreneurship in the political economy of Kenya and its embeddedness in society. By adopting a social science approach, this book highlights a number of political, social and practical issues to demonstrate the matatu is not a decontextualized, disembodied and lifeless piece of moving metal carrying people and goods but rather part of a self-organizing industry, with its own logic of practice. This book is dedicated to Ajanga Khayesi.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780128231142
Social Issues in Transport Planning, Volume 8 in the Advances in Transport Policy and Planning series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors. Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors Presents the latest release in the Advances in Transport Policy and Planning series
Author : Nafukho Muyia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Bus drivers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113023720
Studies the impact of working conditions of matatu (public service vehicle) drivers on road traffic accidents. Presents the findings of research carried out between May and August 1996 among 284 vehicle drivers.
Author : Kenda Mutongi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226471396
Drive the streets of Nairobi and you are sure to see many matatus colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed out with aftermarket detailing. They can be stately black or come in extravagant colors, sporting names, slogans, or entire tableaus, with airbrushed portraits of everyone from Kanye West to Barack Obama, of athletes, movie stars, or the most famous face of all: Jesus Christ. In this richly interdisciplinary book, Kenda Mutongi explores the history of the matatu from the 1960s to the present. As Mutongi shows, matatus offer a window onto many socioeconomic and political facets of late-twentieth-century Africa. In their diversity of idiosyncratic designs they express multiple and divergent aspects of Kenyan life including rapid urbanization, organized crime, entrepreneurship, social insecurity, the transition to democracy, chaos and congestion, popular culture, and many others at once embodying both Kenya's staggering social problems and the bright promises of its future. Offering a shining model of interdisciplinary analysis, Mutongi mixes historical, ethnographic, literary, linguistic, and economic approaches to tell the story of the matatu as a powerful expression of the entrepreneurial aesthetics of the postcolonial world.
Author : Ndung'u P. Kimani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Informal sector (Economics)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115132974
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : City planning
ISBN : MINN:31951P00091517J
Author : Mary Njeri Kinyanjui,Meleckidzedeck Khayesi
Publisher : OSSREA
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123167301
This book, based on an extensive review of literature and fieldwork, contributes to the growing discourse on social capital by examining its use as a strategy for an entry and stay in trade, manufacturing, transport and micro and small enterprises in East Africa. A social capital model in formulated and tested. The book shows how social capital has been articulated and utilized through networks, relationships, norms, values and actions to facilitate entry and stay in these enterprises. The book provides details on how entrepreneurs constantly construct their social capital and evolve business logic and practice that is used in business transactions. The book does not only focus on theory and empirical findings but also derives lessons for poverty-alleviation strategies. It reveals that there are limitations to the application of social capital when it comes to interaction and conflict between different stakeholders in transport enterprises. The political economy model was found to be appropriate in such a case, indicating that the social capital model can be used in combination with other theoretical frameworks.
Author : Kenda Mutongi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780226554198
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