THE ROLE OF PARATRANSIT IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN CITIES<sup>1</sup>

Rimmer, Peter J.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9493.1984.tb00145.x

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“…The normalisation of these efficiency-optimising ordering practices provides a cognitive framework that helps to legitimise the formalisation and even outright banning of ''informal'' transport services by minibuses, motorcycles, tricycles, rickshaws and pedicabs in many cities across Africa and Asia, including the Middle East and Central Asia. It also gives weight to arguments that all such services cause road congestion whereas many-most motorbike and tricycle taxi services, for instancecan rapidly cut through traffic jams (Rimmer, 1984;Bize, 2017;Doherty, 2017).…”

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“…The term is discursively performative: if, as Sylvia Wynter (Wynter and McKittrick, 2015) contends, language coalesces with endogenous neurochemical regulatory processes in humans' brains, then the very term informal transport is complicit in the generation of place-specific cultures of disregard for and disinvestment in the transport services it describes. Alternatives exist-paratransit (e.g., Rimmer, 1984;Behrens et al, 2016) and indigenous transport (Mateo-Babiano, 2016)-but neither challenge the formal vs. its other hierarchy. New, non-dualistic ways of conceptualising transport services are required.…”

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Towards decolonised knowledge about transport

Schwanen

2018

Palgrave Commun

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For centuries the transport of people and goods across the globe has been shaped profoundly by Western and other colonialisms. Impacts on the development of infrastructures such as roads, railways and ports as well as transport flows within, to and from origins and destinations are increasingly documented. This essay proposes that expert knowledge about and way of knowing transport systems and practices in former and current colonies are at least as much shaped by Western colonialisms. It advocates a decolonisation of that knowledge and proposes a dual strategy of complicating, slowing down and disrupting existing expert knowledge about transport and of putting new concepts, theories and methodological practices in critical dialogue with each other and hegemonic transport research practices. It also emphasises that moving beyond transport expertise's colonial legacy is a project that should be led from outside historically emerged centres of knowledge production.

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Section: Wither Global Knowledge About Transport?mentioning

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Section: Wither Global Knowledge About Transport?mentioning

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Towards decolonised knowledge about transport

Schwanen

2018

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“…In the USA, paratransit essentially only refer to transport for the transport-disadvantaged, especially the elderly and the disabled, and jitney. In the developing cities, increasingly more forms of paratransit were replaced under the modernization and incorporation trends (Rimmer 1984). Around the world, there is hardly any government which expressively implements a transport policy of encouraging paratransit.…”

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The role of paratransit: some reflections based on the experience of residents’ coach services in Hong Kong

Loo

2007

Transportation

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Paratransit refers to urban transport services “somewhere between private passenger transport and conventional public transport in terms of cost and quality of service” [Rimmer (1980), Paratransit: A commentary. Environ. Plan. A 12, 937–944]. Since the 1980s, a new form of paratransit—residents’ coach, which provides exclusive transport services to residents living in private housing estates—has emerged in Hong Kong. What was the background underlying the emergence and subsequent growth of residents’ coach services? Also, what was the role of residents’ coach in the public transport system of Hong Kong? With the completion of more railway extensions, should residents’ coach services be replaced? If so, what are the potential impacts on people’s life? This paper addresses the above research questions through a large-scale questionnaire survey that examined not only people’s modal choice but also their residential choice, socio-economic background and attitudes. The findings suggest that transport policy makers should pay more attention to examine new forms of paratransit and the ways of integrating them into the overall public transport system, both spatially and temporally. It is only through the development of an efficient and multi-modal transport system can the maximum potential of paratransit in filling the transport gap between conventional mass transit and private cars be realized. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007Paratransit, Public transport system, Residents’ coach services, Residential locations,

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“…Scholarly publications on paratransit services in developing world cities first emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, with South-east Asian cities receiving the greatest attention (e.g. Rimmer, 1984, Roth, 1987, Cervero, 1991, 2000. The main arguments advanced in the literature from this period were essentially that paratransit modes perform an important role in passenger transport systems, often providing niche services under conditions in which conventional scheduled services cannot be sustained.…”

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Improving paratransit service: Lessons from inter-city matatu cooperatives in Kenya

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While providing essential access for large portions of city populations, the quality of paratransit services in Sub-Saharan African cities is poor. Poor quality of service can be attributed to two features of the paratransit business operating model: driver remuneration on the basis of a daily 'target system'; and cash-based business management in which vehicle depreciation is ignored as an operating expense. In Kenya, the voluntary organisation of fragmented inter-city matatu businesses into Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs) has resulted in improved service, regulatory compliance and technology adoption, but little is known of how they operate. The aim of this paper is to gain insight into how the Kenyan inter-city matatu SACCOs are organised and have improved services, and to explore the transferability of this experience and the lessons it offers. The exploratory nature of the study, and constrained resources, necessitated that the research adopt a qualitative case study method. It was found that most of the case study SACCOs have addressed the root causes of poor service quality by shifting the remuneration of drivers from daily cash targets to salaries, and by requiring vehicle depreciation costing through compulsory contributions to the cooperative's capital savings from which vehicle acquisition and repair loans can be derived. Due to the particular shuttle-like nature of inter-city services and the considerable institutional support that exists in Kenya for cooperatives, the direct transfer of successes to other contexts is likely to prove difficult. Identifying the features of the inter-city SACCO model that have led to paratransit service improvements, and attempting to replicate these, may therefore be more effective than attempting to replicate the model in its entirety. These features are argued to be operator consolidation, accompanied by salaried drivers, systematic vehicle monitoring and compulsory vehicle depreciation costing. They can be adopted in other forms of paratransit organisation and regulation, but will require considerable adaptation to context.

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THE ROLE OF PARATRANSIT IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN CITIES¹

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Towards decolonised knowledge about transport

Towards decolonised knowledge about transport

The role of paratransit: some reflections based on the experience of residents’ coach services in Hong Kong

Improving paratransit service: Lessons from inter-city matatu cooperatives in Kenya

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Improving paratransit service: Lessons from inter-city matatu cooperatives in Kenya

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