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Book Synopsis Africa's Transport Infrastructure by : Heinrich Bofinger
Download or read book Africa's Transport Infrastructure written by Heinrich Bofinger and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Transport Prices and Costs in Africa by : Supee Teravaninthorn
Download or read book Transport Prices and Costs in Africa written by Supee Teravaninthorn and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transport prices for most African landlocked countries range from 15 to 20 percent of import costs. This is approximately two to three times more than in most developed countries. It is well known that weak infrastructure can account for low trade performance. Thus, it becomes necessary to understand what types of regional transport services operate in landlocked African nations and it is critical to identify the regulation disparities and provision anomalies that hurt infrastructure efficiency, even when the physical infrastructure, such as a road transport corridor, exists. Transport Prices and Costs in Africa analyzes the various reasons for poor transport performance seen widely throughout Africa and provides a compelling case for a number of national and regional reforms that are vital to the effort to address the underlying causes of high transport prices and costs and service unpredictability seen in Africa. The book will greatly help supervisory authorities throughout the region develop and implement a comprehensive transport policy that will facilitate long-term growth.
Book Synopsis Efficiency of Transport to Enhance South Africa's International Competitiveness by : George Leveque Dehlen
Download or read book Efficiency of Transport to Enhance South Africa's International Competitiveness written by George Leveque Dehlen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Black Urban Public Road Transport by : Human Awareness Programme (South Africa)
Download or read book Black Urban Public Road Transport written by Human Awareness Programme (South Africa) and published by Programme. This book was released on 1982 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Road Network Upgrading and Overland Trade Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Piet Buys
Download or read book Road Network Upgrading and Overland Trade Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Piet Buys and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent research suggests that isolation from regional and international markets has contributed significantly to poverty in many Sub-Saharan African countries. Numerous empirical studies identify poor transport infrastructure and border restrictions as significant deterrents to trade expansion. In response, the African Development Bank has proposed an integrated network of functional roads for the subcontinent. Drawing on new econometric results, the authors quantify the trade-expansion potential and costs of such a network. They use spatial network analysis techniques to identify a network of primary roads connecting all Sub-Saharan capitals and other cities with populations over 500,000. The authors estimate current overland trade flows in the network using econometrically-estimated gravity model parameters, road transport quality indicators, actual road distances, and estimates of economic scale for cities in the network. Then they simulate the effect of feasible continental upgrading by setting network transport quality at a level that is functional, but less highly developed than existing roads in countries like South Africa and Botswana. The authors assess the costs of upgrading with econometric evidence from a large World Bank database of road project costs in Africa. Using a standard approach to forecast error estimation, they derive a range of potential benefits and costs. Their baseline results indicate that continental network upgrading would expand overland trade by about $250 billion over 15 years, with major direct and indirect benefits for the rural poor. Financing the program would require about $20 billion for initial upgrading and $1 billion annually for maintenance. The authors conclude with a discussion of supporting institutional arrangements and the potential cost of implementing them.
Download or read book African Roads and Transport written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Southern African Transport by : Thomas L. Kennedy
Download or read book Southern African Transport written by Thomas L. Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Africa, Transport and the Millennium Development Goals by : Raj Bardouille
Download or read book Africa, Transport and the Millennium Development Goals written by Raj Bardouille and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Road Transport in Nigeria by : Edward Kenneth Hawkins
Download or read book Road Transport in Nigeria written by Edward Kenneth Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Transport Planning and Mobility in Urban East Africa by : Nadine Appelhans
Download or read book Transport Planning and Mobility in Urban East Africa written by Nadine Appelhans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Road Transport in Africa by : Source Wikipedia
Download or read book Road Transport in Africa written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Africa road stubs, Trans-African Highway network, Motorway, Cape to Cairo Road, Trans-West African Coastal Highway, Trans-Sahelian Highway, Trans-Sahara Highway, Bridge of the Horns, Tripoli - Cape Town Highway, Lagos-Mombasa Highway, Cairo - Cape Town Highway, Boda-boda, Beira-Lobito Highway, Casablanca-Rabat expressway, Mbarara-Kikagati Road, Trans-Caprivi Highway, Casablanca-Marrakesh expressway, Cairo-Dakar Highway, Roads in Senegal, Gayaza-Ziroobwe Road, Ndjamena-Djibouti Highway, Brazzaville-Kinshasa Bridge, Matugga-Kapeeka Road, Trans-Gambia Highway, A109 road, Cairo Ring Road, Roads in Kenya, Great North Road, Zambia, Strait of Sicily Tunnel, Route nationale 1, Bamboo Bike Project, Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel, A23 road, Avenida Marginal, Roads in Namibia, Jomo Kenyatta Avenue, Moi Avenue, Platinum Highway, A2 highway, Boulevard du 30 Juin, Lusaka-Livingstone road, N1 road, Makupa Circus, B8 road, A1 road, National Route 8, National Route 1, Independence Avenue, A19 road, National Route 6, Ashmond Street, A1 motorway, Cairo-Alexandria desert road, A4 motorway, National Highway 5, Koinange Street, International Coastal Road, A342 highway, A7 highway, National Highway 1, A1 highway, A3 motorway, A123 highway, RNIE 3, A232 highway, A122 highway, National Highway 2, A3 highway, RNIE 2, A345 highway, A121 highway, A344 highway, A343 highway, A126 highway, N2 road, National Highway 3, A236 highway, A231 highway, A234 highway, A235 highway, A233 highway, A125 highway, N6 road, A8 highway, Sam Nujoma Street, A237 highway, RNIE 6, A124 highway, N3 road, A9 highway, A4 highway, National Highway 4, A13 highway, N4 road, A5 highway, A4 road, A6 road, A2 road, RNIE 4, N5 road, RNIE 1, RNIE 5, RNIE 7. Excerpt: A motorway is a dual-carriageway limited access highway with grade separated junctions designed...
Book Synopsis Commercializing Africa's Roads by : Ian G. Heggie
Download or read book Commercializing Africa's Roads written by Ian G. Heggie and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Road transport is the dominant mode of transport in sub-Saharan Africa, carrying close to 90 percent of the region's passenger and freight transport, and providing the only access to rural communities where over 70 percent of Africans live. Despite their importance, most of the region's nearly 2 million km of roads are poorly managed and badly maintained. By 1990, nearly a third of the $150 billion invested in roads had been eroded through lack of maintenance. To restore only those roads that are economically justified and prevent further deteriorations will require annual expenditures of at least $1.5 billion over the next ten years, or more than double the requirements of regular maintenance. To find sustainable solutions to these problems, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the World Bank launched the Road Maintenance Initiative (RMI) as part of the sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP). With support from a number of bilateral donors, the Initiative has spent the last six years working with African countries to identify the causes of poor road maintenance policies and to develop an agency for reforming them. The key concept to emerge from the debate on how to strengthen financing and management of roads is commercialiation: bring roads into the marketplace and put them on a fee for service basis. However, since roads are and will largely remain a public monopoly, commercialization requires complementary reforms.
Book Synopsis Non-Motorized Transport Integration into Urban Transport Planning in Africa by : Winnie V. Mitullah
Download or read book Non-Motorized Transport Integration into Urban Transport Planning in Africa written by Winnie V. Mitullah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Transport and the Village by : Ian Barwell
Download or read book Transport and the Village written by Ian Barwell and published by Washington, D.C. : World Bank. This book was released on 1996 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Perspectives for the Management of Transport and Communications in Africa by : Ngila R. L. Mwase
Download or read book Perspectives for the Management of Transport and Communications in Africa written by Ngila R. L. Mwase and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Transport Policies and Economic Development in Southern Africa by : Gavin Grant Maasdorp
Download or read book Transport Policies and Economic Development in Southern Africa written by Gavin Grant Maasdorp and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book contains maps indicating main railway routes, some roads and road projects, inland waterways, ports and air traffic routes.
Book Synopsis Paratransit in African Cities by : Roger Behrens
Download or read book Paratransit in African Cities written by Roger Behrens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
