Paratransit in African Cities
Operations, Regulation and Reform
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 b…
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Weitere Autoren: Mccormick, Dorothy (Hrsg.) / Mfinanga, David (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-317-91010-7
- EAN: 9781317910107
- Produktnummer: 19573718
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 13'183 KB
- Abbildungen: 54 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 32 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 19 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Roger Behrens is Director of the Centre for Transport Studies and the African Centre for Studies in Public and Non-Motorised Transport, and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Dorothy McCormick is a Research Professor at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya. David Mfinanga is an Associate Professor in the Department of Transportation and Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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