Transport And Mobility Futures In Urban Africa

Author : Ransford A. Acheampong,Karen Lucas,Michael Poku-Boansi,Chinebuli Uzondu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Nadine Appelhans,Wolfgang Scholz,Sabine Baumgart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781000288773

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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 : Sara Candiracci,Christian Schlösser,Heather Allen,Yvonne Kunz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Tjark Gall,Flore Vallet,Laura Mariana Reyes Madrigal,Sebastian Hörl,Adam Abdin,Tarek Chouaki,Jakob Puchinger
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031457951

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Sustainable Urban Mobility Futures by Tjark Gall,Flore Vallet,Laura Mariana Reyes Madrigal,Sebastian Hörl,Adam Abdin,Tarek Chouaki,Jakob Puchinger Pdf

​This book provides a unique perspective on urban mobility focusing on past challenges and future trends. The book enables discussions of pathways towards sustainable and people-centred urban mobility building on existing concepts and introducing novel methods and consideration of future research. In particular, the book provides an overview of trends, design methods, and projects combining foresight and agent-based modelling to better integrate active mobility in Mobility-as-a-Service, assess impacts of automated vehicles in Paris, and compare multiple solutions in Cairo. The book provides a range of multidisciplinary concepts and methods that will be invaluable to both researchers in the field and students taking relevant courses.

Author : Winnie V. Mitullah,Marianne Vanderschuren,Meleckidzedeck Khayesi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317086970

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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 : Tanu Priya Uteng,Karen Lucas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1138291714

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Urban Mobilities in the Global South by Tanu Priya Uteng,Karen Lucas Pdf

Transport system improvements can have complex and unequal impacts on different sectors of society. Conventional approaches to analysing travel demand and transport system performance developed in the Global North can be ill-equipped to identify and understand the complexities and inequities of cities in the Global South. The book considers the mobilities and immobilities of cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, through an exploration of the theoretical and methodological entry points we use to understand transport planning in cities. It will be of interest to students, scholars and policy makers of geography, urban studies, urban planning, transport studies and development studies.

Author : Trynos Gumbo,Thembani Moyo,Bongumusa Ndwandwe,Brightnes Risimati,Siphiwe Given Mbatha
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030987176

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Urban Public Transport Systems Innovation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Era by Trynos Gumbo,Thembani Moyo,Bongumusa Ndwandwe,Brightnes Risimati,Siphiwe Given Mbatha Pdf

This book explores the physical and electronic integration of innovative urban public transport systems in seven metropolitan cities in South Africa and Zimbabwe in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0). The book also highlights how collaborative engagement can improve new transport projects in cities of the Global South. It demonstrates how integration concerns remain in transport infrastructure projects in cities of the developing countries. Consequently, in order to strengthen the emerging and promising economies of these cities, there is a need for efficient, integrated, reliable and affordable public transport systems. The book explains that plans to deliver innovative transport systems in the Global South need to be well coordinated and managed to yield physically and electronically integrated systems.

Author : Roger Behrens,Dorothy McCormick,David Mfinanga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : C. A. Brebbia
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 861 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781845647162

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Urban Transport XIX by C. A. Brebbia Pdf

This book contains the papers presented at the nineteenth annual International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment. The papers cover research on how to minimise ecological and environmental impacts from urban transportation systems, make them sustainable, and use them to improve the socio-economic fabric of the city. Papers also address the concerns about the safety, security and efficiency of the systems.Topics covered include: Urban transport planning and Management; Transportation demand analysis; Traffic integration and control; Intelligent transport systems; Transport modelling and simulation; Land use and transport integration; Public transport systems; Environmental and ecological aspects; Air and noise pollution; Safety and security; Energy and transport fuels; Economic and social impact; and Advanced transport systems.

Author : Gunella Jönson,Emin Tengström
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783540277613

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Urban Transport Development by Gunella Jönson,Emin Tengström Pdf

Urban Transport Development is a contribution to the ongoing global discussion on the future of urban transport. The main themes are how to cope with the complexity of urban transport development and the process of change including its determining factors. The role of leadership in the development process is the key issue. Main areas of discussion are the historical background, the diversity and complexity of present problems, and the outcome of attempts to promote positive future development in urban environments around the world.

Author : Raj Bardouille,Deborah Bryceson,Muna Ndalo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443815291

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Africa, Transport and the Millennium Development Goals by Raj Bardouille,Deborah Bryceson,Muna Ndalo Pdf

Transport is an essential service that must contribute to national development objectives in health, education, agriculture and other sectors in guiding sub-Saharan Africa out of poverty. Developing policies aimed at providing safe, reliable and affordable transport infrastructure and services can and will make a substantial and sustainable contribution to eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, improving health care and reducing HIV/AIDS. Although transport is identified as a priority in poverty reduction strategies, it has not generally been adequately addressed. Global responses tend to focus on rural transport infrastructure—principally roads—with little attention given to sub-sectors such as rivers, lakes, and railroads; and important geographical and econological differences are ignored. The needs of the urban poor have been weakly addressed, as have the access and mobility needs of women, the disabled and other disadvantaged groups, while strategies for adapting transport to agricultural production/distribution or social services (e.g. health and education) have not been adequately developed. A systematic approach to the development of sound, comprehensive transport sector programs that provide clear guidance on what is to be done is much needed. This volume—the product of an expert workshop held at Cornell University’s Institute for African Development in May, 2007—provides accounts of an array of African operational spaces in which transport is relevant to the Millennium Development Goals. It addresses many heretofore ignored dimesions of transport—mobility issues of the urban poor, of women and children, and issues of access to employment, education and health services. It provides an alignment of transport with the MDGs in what proves to be fertile ground for research with important messages for policy makers and consequences for policy.

Author : David Dewar,Fabio Todeschini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781351903523

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Rethinking Urban Transport After Modernism by David Dewar,Fabio Todeschini Pdf

For the last seven decades, urban settlement policy worldwide has been increasingly dominated by modernist precepts and by urban decisions made in discipline-specific ’silos’. The urban management consequences have been invariably negative, with increasing sprawl, fragmentation and separation resulting in a wide range of environmental, social and economic problems. This book explores the role of movement in a more integrated approach to urban settlement, and how thinking, policies and actions need to change. South Africa is used as a particularly good case study, since patterns of sprawl, fragmentation and separation have been exacerbated by apartheid, while recent legislation has demanded a reversal of these tendencies.

Author : Wulf-Holger Arndt
Publisher : Jovis Verlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Absorptive capacity (Economics)
ISBN : 3868592741

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Mobility and Transportation by Wulf-Holger Arndt Pdf

While the trend towards the growth of megacities creates huge challenges, it also offers the opportunity for reshaping mobility patterns in cities, promoting energy efficiency and principles of low carbon development. In this volume, an overview is provided of solutions comprising concepts for sustainable transportation through intelligent management, innovative instruments for integrated transport planning, modelling systems, adaptation strategies in the transport sector and concepts for enhancing public transit. Developed for five cities of the programme by transdisciplinary and international research teams in close collaboration with local stakeholders, they are presented on the background of big challenges ranging from data collection issues, modelling and planning in a fast growing environment to resistance of citizens against big infrastructure projects

Author : Nicholas Low
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415529037

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Transforming Urban Transport by Nicholas Low Pdf

This work confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world wedded to mobility: the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuelled path and the real paucity of viable technological alternatives which can be deployed in time.

Author : Heinrich Bofinger
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780821386057

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Africa's Transport Infrastructure by Heinrich Bofinger Pdf

This book will be of interest to governments in the region and to multilateral and bilateral aid and lending agencies, as well as to graduate students, faculty, and researchers in African studies and transport studies. --Book Jacket.