From Mobility to Access for All: Expanding Urban Transportation Choices in the Global South

use (i.e., the location of households and activities) and of the transport system in terms of the amount of time and money We considered walking, public transport (both formal and required to travel. [...] We then normalize the to the presence of a larger central city population that has access travel time and travel cost reported for this trip, relative to the to a good network of transit services concentrated in the central average travel time and cost in each city, and take the maximum city (including metro, BRT, and informal transit). [...] In the cases of Johannesburg and Mexico City, this and their access index reflects those of transit users in the same amounts to 42 percent and 56 percent of the respective samples. [...] The emerging consensus on informal bus/minibus upgrading is that the public sector is best Problems placed to undertake planning, regulation, and oversight of public Most cities in the global South have experienced transport, and the private sector should provide services through a decline in both the quantity and quality of public some form of organization that is accountable to users and/or tran. [...] This approach is often Invest in priority public transport infrastructure cost-effective because it leverages the benefits of existing and To address the high mobility costs of well-located commuters emerging modes and capitalizes on the returns to scale from and the mobile under-served—that is, of private vehicle enlarging the collective catchment area of public transport.