Urban paratransit in the developing world

Silcock, D T

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“…With respect to the interest in developing world paratransit systems serving as a potential model for demand response transit in developed world city regions, espoused by various authors in the earlier literature review (Silcock, 1981, Roth and Shephard, 1984, Chujoh, 1989, Cervero 1997, Finn, 2012, the Kenyan SACCO model is unlikely to offer important lessons. The challenges associated with vehicle roadworthiness, labour exploitation and illegal driver behaviour prevalent in Kenya are unlikely to be experienced to the same degree, if at all, in developed world city contexts, and consequently the benefits of cooperative structures with respect to fleet renewal and salaried driver remuneration are unlikely to accrue in these contexts.…”

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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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“…Some authors from this period argued that the developing world offered commercially successful models of demand-responsive service provision that, with modification, could be transferred to developed world cities (e.g. Silcock ,1981, Roth and Shephard, 1984, Chujoh, 1989, Cervero 1997).…”

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

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“…Transportation systems of the "Global South" attracted a lot of attention in the 1980s [Runnacles 1976;Silcock 1981;Rimmer 1982]. The International Conference Series on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport (Thredbo conference, 1989) established a particular concept for the analysis of urban public transport.…”

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Александрович¹

2020

Journal of Economic Sociology

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лектронный журнал «Экономическая социология» издаётся с 2000 г. Учредителями являются Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики» (с 2007 г.) и Вадим Валерьевич Радаев (главный редактор). Цель журнала-утверждать международные стандарты экономико-социологических исследований в России, представлять современные работы российских и зарубежных авторов в области экономической социологии, информировать профессиональное сообщество о новых актуальных публикациях и исследовательских проектах, а также вовлекать в профессиональное сообщество молодых коллег. Журнал представляет собой специализированное академическое издание. В нём публикуются материалы, отражающие современное состояние экономической социологии и способствующие развитию данной области в её современном понимании. В числе приоритетных тем: теоретические направления экономической социологии, социологические исследования рынков и организаций, социально-экономические стратегии индивидов и домашних хозяйств, неформальная экономика. Также публикуются тексты из смежных дисциплин-неоинституциональной экономической теории, антропологии, экономической психологии и других областей, которые могут представлять интерес для экономсоциологов. Журнал публикует пять номеров в год: в январе, марте, мае, сентябре и ноябре. Доступ ко всем номерам журнала постоянный, свободный и бесплатный по адресу: http:// www.ecsoc.hse.ru. Каждый номер содержится в едином файле (10-12 п. л. в PDF). Журнал входит в список ВАК России, индексируется в Российском индексе научного цитирования (РИНЦ), Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) из Web of Science Core Collection и Scopus (3 квартиль). Требования к авторам изложены по адресу: http://ecsoc.hse.ru/author_requirements. html В журнале применяется двойное анонимное рецензирование статей. Все материалы проходят через полный цикл редакторской обработки и корректуры. Плата с авторов журнала не взимается. Ускоренные сроки публикации статей не предусмотрены.

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“…In all eight cities, past consulting reports have specifically mentioned the conflict between paratransit modes and other motorized traffic as a major source of congestion (Wilbur Smith and Associates, 1974;Kocks, F.H., 1975;JAICA, 1985JAICA, , 1986. Other factors that have been blamed include: too many narrow, poorly maintained roads; piecemeal road development; lack of road connectivity and excessive deadends, such as the fishbone road layout (Soi roads) of Bangkok; oversupply of curbside kiosks and hawkers, resulting in the spillover of pedestrains and activities into streets; insufficient off-street parking; lack of land use controls, resulting in the poor location of many traffic generating developments; and minimal enforcement of traffic laws (Jacobs and Fouracre, 1974;Kirby et al, 1986A, 1986B;Rimmer and Dick, 1980;Silcock, 1981).…”

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“…They generally provide low performance services, but at a cheap price. Additionally, the informal transport sector has also become an important source of urban employment, particulary for young males who have temporarily migrated from the rural countryside (Walters, 1979;Silcock, 1981;Kartodirdjo, 1981).…”

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PARATRANSIT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: A Market Response to Poor Roads?*

Cervero

1991

Rev Urban & Reg Develop

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Southeast Asia's paratransit sector has become a vital source of mobility in many cities. Run by private operators, generally under free market conditions, paratransit vehicles maneuver into areas that standard buses cannot serve and provide frequent door‐to‐door service, at a profit. Yet despite past successes, pressure is mounting to greatly restrict or even ban paratransit vehicles from many cities, replacing becaks, bajajs, tuktuks, microbuses, minibuses, and jeepneys with large buses operated by public monopolies. While it is well known that paratransit provides low performance services tailored to what poor people can pay, an often overlooked benefit is that it compensates for the inadequacies of many roads in Southeast Asian cities. This paper empirically tests the extent to which mixes of paratransit fleets and services have evolved so as to adapt to the low capacity, poorly interconnected road systems in this part of the world. Using data for eight of Southeast Asia's largest cities, it is found that the greatest variety of paratransit modes, both in terms of types and seating capacities, generally exists in the places with the least amount of road capacity per capita and a poor road hierarchy. The paper concludes that any retrenchment in paratransit's role in Southeast Asian cities should be governed by market conditions rather than government fiat.

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Urban paratransit in the developing world

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

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

The Enemy of My Enemy or About the Uniting Potential of Market Radicalism Book Review: Posner E. A., Weyl G. E. 2018. Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalismand Democracy for a Just Society. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press

PARATRANSIT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: A Market Response to Poor Roads?*

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