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Characterizing user needs and practices in secondary cities: Insights into the role of bicycles in mitigating mobility exclusion in Malawi and Kenya

Institute for Social Development (ISD), University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa EP-2021-MAC-04, Mulugeta F. Dinbabo, Institute for Social Development (ISD), University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Partners: Gail Jennings Research consultant and PhD research student, University of Cape Town PO Box 181, Noordhoek (7979), Cape Town, South Africa Winnie

Mapping unequal accessibility to socioeconomic and cultural opportunities in informal urban settlements across two Sub-Sahara African Cities

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Kumasi, Ghana EP-2021-MAC-03, Gift Dumedah, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Kumasi, Ghana Partners: Project Team – Ghana Charles Adams – Dept of Civil Engineering, Regional Transport Research and Education Centre Kumasi (TRECK), KNUST, Ghana Esmeranda Manful – Dept of Sociology and Social Work, KNUST,

A comparative Study of Police Harassment of informal public transport operators in 2 African cities

led by Ayobami Abayomi Popoola,SARChI Chair for Inclusive Cities, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa.

Towards the empowered commuter: Exploring information behavior in informal public transport users in Uganda and South Africa

led by Christo Venter, Centre for Transport Development, U. of Pretoria, South Africa.

Study commissioned to the WRI-China is now available

ISM, PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCH RESULTS

”Status and Opportunities of Shared Mobility Systems in China” VREF commissioned a report about Informal Public transport to the Future Mobility Project teams, working for the Sustainable Cities Program at the World Resources Institute-China. In response to the challenges of both COVID-19 and climate change, the public transport needs to be redefined. Traditional “public transport”