Paratransit In African Cities

Author : Roger Behrens,Dorothy McCormick,David Mfinanga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317910107

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Paratransit in African Cities by Roger Behrens,Dorothy McCormick,David Mfinanga Pdf

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 : Daniel E. Agbiboa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351234207

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Transport, Transgression and Politics in African Cities by Daniel E. Agbiboa Pdf

This collection of field-based case-studies examines the role and contributions of Africa’s informal public transport (also referred to as paratransit) to the production of city forms and urban economies, as well as the voices, experiences, and survival tactics of its poor and stigmatised workforce. With attention to the question of what a micro-level analysis of the organisation and politics of informal public transport in urbanizing Africa might tell us about the precarious existence and agency of its informal workforce, it explores the political and socio-economic conditions of contemporary African cities, spanning from Nairobi and Dar es Salaam to Harare, Cape Town, Kinshasa and Lagos. Mapping, analysing and comparing the everyday experiences of informal transport operators across the continent, this book sheds light on the multiple challenges facing Africa’s informal transport workers today, as they negotiate the contours of city life, expand their horizons of possibility and make the most of their time. It thus offers directions for more effective policy response to urban public transport, which is changing fundamentally and rapidly in light of neoliberal urban planning strategies and ‘World Class’ city ambitions.

Author : Corinne Mulley,John D. Nelson
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781786352255

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Paratransit by Corinne Mulley,John D. Nelson Pdf

Recent technological advances have made feasible new and improved approaches for organizing and delivering local passenger transportation. This book draws on a selection of papers presented at the International Paratransit Conference in Monterey in October 2014 to capture these exciting developments.

Author : Winnie V. Mitullah,Marianne Vanderschuren,Meleckidzedeck Khayesi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317086987

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Non-Motorized Transport Integration into Urban Transport Planning in Africa by Winnie V. Mitullah,Marianne Vanderschuren,Meleckidzedeck Khayesi Pdf

What challenges do pedestrians and cyclists face in cities of the developing world? What opportunities do these cities have to provide for walking and cycling? Based on in-depth research conducted in Cape Town (South Africa), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and Nairobi (Kenya), this book explores these questions by presenting work on walking and cycling travel behaviour, the status of road safety in these cities, as well as an analysis of the infrastructure for walking and cycling, and the workings of the institutions responsible for planning for these modes. The book also presents case studies relating to particular opportunities and challenges, such as the development and evaluation of ‘walking bus’ interventions, and the opportunities micro-simulation of pedestrian interventions offers within a data-scarce environment. Non-motorized Transport Integration into Urban Transport Planning in Africa demonstrates that transport and urban planning remains situated in a logic of automobile-dependent transport planning and global city development. This logic of practice does not pay adequate attention to walking and cycling. It argues that a significant shift in both policy as well as political commitment is needed so as to prioritize walking and cycling as strategies for sustainable transport policy in urban Africa. This book will be a key text for practitioners and policy makers working in planning, transport policy and urban development in Africa, as well as students and scholars of African studies, development studies, urban geography, transport studies and sustainable development.

Author : Kenda Mutongi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226471396

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Matatu by Kenda Mutongi Pdf

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 : Luigi Dell ́Olio,Angel Ibeas,Juan de Oña,Rocío de Oña
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780081022795

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Public Transportation Quality of Service by Luigi Dell ́Olio,Angel Ibeas,Juan de Oña,Rocío de Oña Pdf

Public Transportation Quality of Service: Factors, Models, and Applications is the first book to help researchers better understand the contributing factors that can improve public transportation perception among users. The book compiles in one place metrics currently dispersed in journal articles, government publications and book chapters. It critically analyzes currently available modeling methodologies such as the Ordered Logit/Probit model and Models of Structural Equations, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages. The book addresses models of desired quality, including the views of users and non-users, discussing the gap between desired and perceived quality. The book also examines data mining approaches such as decision trees and neural networks, showing how to involve the public in the decision-making process to create policies that encourage public transport demand. Measuring passenger’s views on public transportation is of critical concern to promote wider transit use in cities around the world. Includes insights from both theoretical and practical points of view for both researchers and practitioners Features case studies in each chapter that apply models discussed Helps readers develop and design their own studies for measuring quality of service Shows how to include perceived quality in contracts Provides access to the survey formulas and data to better enable implementation of models

Author : Nadine Appelhans,Wolfgang Scholz,Sabine Baumgart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781000288797

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Transport Planning and Mobility in Urban East Africa by Nadine Appelhans,Wolfgang Scholz,Sabine Baumgart Pdf

This book critically explores the relationship between mobility patterns, transport provision and urban development in East African cities. Bringing together contributions on the futures of mobility in urban East Africa, the chapters examine transport provision, mobility patterns, location-specific modes of transport and transformative factors for transport and mobility in the rapidly urbanising region. The book outlines different mobility needs to be addressed in transport planning to serve and shape the respective cities and examines the decision-making process in transport planning and the level of accountability to the public. The contributors show the dialectic between innovation in transport/mobility and urban development under rapid urbanisation and discusses how to practically integrate mobility and transport provision into urban development. This book will be of interest to scholars in urban planning, transport planning, transport geography, social sciences and African studies.

Author : Robert Cervero
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Paratransit services
ISBN : 9789211314533

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Informal Transport in the Developing World by Robert Cervero Pdf

Author : Harry T. Dimitriou,Ralph Gakenheimer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849808392

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Urban Transport in the Developing World by Harry T. Dimitriou,Ralph Gakenheimer Pdf

Policy-making for urban transport and planning of economies in the developing world present major challenges for countries facing rapid urbanisation and rampant motorisation, alongside growing commitments to sustainability. These challenges include: coping with financial deficits, providing for the poor, dealing meaningfully with global warming and energy shortages, addressing traffic congestion and related land use issues, adopting green technologies and adjusting equitably to the impacts of globalisation. This book presents a contemporary analysis of these challenges and new workable responses to the urban transport problems they spawn.

Author : Sara Candiracci,Christian Schlösser,Heather Allen,Yvonne Kunz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Sustainable development
ISBN : UCBK:C110916380

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A New Perspective by Sara Candiracci,Christian Schlösser,Heather Allen,Yvonne Kunz Pdf

Author : Brian Watermeyer,Judith McKenzie,Leslie Swartz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319746753

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The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Citizenship in the Global South by Brian Watermeyer,Judith McKenzie,Leslie Swartz Pdf

This handbook questions, debates and subverts commonly held assumptions about disability and citizenship in the global postcolonial context. Discourses of citizenship and human rights, so elemental to strategies for addressing disability-based inequality in wealthier nations, have vastly different ramifications in societies of the Global South, where resources for development are limited, democratic processes may be uncertain, and access to education, health, transport and other key services cannot be taken for granted. In a broad range of areas relevant to disability equity and transformation, an eclectic group of contributors critically consider whether, when and how citizenship may be used as a lever of change in circumstances far removed from UN boardrooms in New York or Geneva. Debate is polyvocal, with voices from the South engaging with those from the North, disabled people with nondisabled, and activists and politicians intersecting with researchers and theoreticians. Along the way, accepted wisdoms on a host of issues in disability and international development are enriched and problematized. The volume explores what life for disabled people in low and middle income countries tells us about subjects such as identity and intersectionality, labour and the global market, family life and intimate relationships, migration, climate change, access to the digital world, participation in sport and the performing arts, and much else.

Author : Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovi?
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821358153

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Street Addressing and the Management of Cities by Catherine Farvacque-Vitkovi? Pdf

There has been a dramatic demographic shift from rural areas to cities in sub-Saharan African countries over the last few decades. This continuing urbanisation trend has created new challenges for local governments in terms of managing urban services, since over half of the city streets in these countries have no names or addresses, and the problem is particularly acute in the poorest neighbourhoods. This publication examines the use of street addressing initiatives to address this problem, giving information on current and future applications, considering examples of use in many African countries, and setting out a methodological guide for implementing such initiatives.

Author : Daniel Sperling
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610919050

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Three Revolutions by Daniel Sperling Pdf

Front Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Will the Transportation Revolutions Improve Our Lives-- or Make Them Worse? -- 2. Electric Vehicles: Approaching the Tipping Point -- 3. Shared Mobility: The Potential of Ridehailing and Pooling -- 4. Vehicle Automation: Our Best Shot at a Transportation Do-Over? -- 5. Upgrading Transit for the Twenty-First Century -- 6. Bridging the Gap between Mobility Haves and Have-Nots -- 7. Remaking the Auto Industry -- 8. The Dark Horse: Will China Win the Electric, Automated, Shared Mobility Race? -- Epilogue -- Notes -- About the Contributors -- Index -- IP Board of Directors

Author : Ransford A. Acheampong,Karen Lucas,Michael Poku-Boansi,Chinebuli Uzondu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031173271

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Transport and Mobility Futures in Urban Africa by Ransford A. Acheampong,Karen Lucas,Michael Poku-Boansi,Chinebuli Uzondu Pdf

This book provides a collection of insightful conceptual and empirical works that situate transport and mobility challenges in the unique context of individual countries and cities while highlighting commonalities across the African continent. Written from an interdisciplinary perspective, the book covers important themes in transport and mobility including the links between urbanization, urban structure, and accessibility; transport equity and poverty, non-motorized transport, public transport, and the challenges and opportunities of new and emerging transport technologies, and ICT-mediated mobility solutions. Each chapter engages with the normative imperatives that are critical to improving the transport and mobility situations of African urban areas now and in the future.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Disability in America
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309104722

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The Future of Disability in America by Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Disability in America Pdf

The future of disability in America will depend on how well the U.S. prepares for and manages the demographic, fiscal, and technological developments that will unfold during the next two to three decades. Building upon two prior studies from the Institute of Medicine (the 1991 Institute of Medicine's report Disability in America and the 1997 report Enabling America), The Future of Disability in America examines both progress and concerns about continuing barriers that limit the independence, productivity, and participation in community life of people with disabilities. This book offers a comprehensive look at a wide range of issues, including the prevalence of disability across the lifespan; disability trends the role of assistive technology; barriers posed by health care and other facilities with inaccessible buildings, equipment, and information formats; the needs of young people moving from pediatric to adult health care and of adults experiencing premature aging and secondary health problems; selected issues in health care financing (e.g., risk adjusting payments to health plans, coverage of assistive technology); and the organizing and financing of disability-related research. The Future of Disability in America is an assessment of both principles and scientific evidence for disability policies and services. This book's recommendations propose steps to eliminate barriers and strengthen the evidence base for future public and private actions to reduce the impact of disability on individuals, families, and society.