“2014 world bank conference on land and poverty” washington dc, march 24-27, 2014 public...

“2014 WORLD BANK CONFERENCE ON LAND AND POVERTY” Washington DC, March 24-27, 2014

PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICE AVAILABILITY: A REDEFINITION OF URBAN LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE

David Niyonsenga, [email protected] Zuidgeest, [email protected]

Washington DC, 25th March 2014

Public transport service availability: a redefinition of urban landscape structure 2

TRANSPORT SERVICE AND URBAN LANDSCAPE• Life in the city depends on transport; someone is always going

somewhere

• City layout, as prevailed by a typical formal of settlements as itself closely grafted on infrastructure networks including transport system, induces typical levels of travel demand

• While traffic congestion matters, lack of affordable and accessible means of transport is among the most key concerns

• For the quest of trade-off among compromises of transport patterns (i.e. residential locations, travel distances, travel modes, etc.) towards minimizing social exclusion, public transport is an adequate alternative for mass mobility and better use of urban space


Basic purpose

- Supply mass mobility

Worldwide: Managing urban space, traffic congestion Enhance spatial relationship between socioeconomic

diversified urban communities Promote equity by enabling poor access to transport

services Creating development opportunities, etc.

In developing countries:

- High-density & rapidly growing cities- Mainstay of most commuters

WHY PUBLIC TRANSPORT (PT) ?


CRITICAL ISSUES WITH PT

- PT services Are they accessible? Are there enough capacity ?

- Performance assessment The ability to improve PT performance relies on the ability

to measure it GIS based model to assess the PT system should be then

developed


PT PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT


RESEARCH methodology


STUDY AREA: Kigali (Rwanda)

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Rapid urbanization & high population growth induced squalid settlements & high transit demand


FIELDWORK: DATA COLLECTION

• Identify all bus routes & bus stops

• Record dispatched buses per route

• Acquire policy document on PT, demographic data, etc.


SERVICE AVAILABILITY OF PT SERVICE

In case we simply rely on service coverage and discard the service capacity, 53% of the potential transit demand is served

In case the access distance is discarded, the potential transit demand is met at 65%


PT SERVICE AVAILABILITY

When spatial aspect is jointly combine with service capacity of public transport, the potential demand is just met at 37%


CONCLUDING REMARKS

• Planning and management of urban landscape should be guided and monitored by verifiable urban/assessment indicators, particularly in land use and transport system integration

• No transport network is about to cope with induced levels of demand, PT should be therefore adequately developed to meet the sprawling land-consuming urban structures

• As life in the city depends on transport, the promotion of PT would enable urban poor access to transport services thereby promoting spatial equity, especially in socioeconomic diversified cities.

• PT service is thus a crucial component of a sustainable and functional city, which deserves to be improved to meet the rapidly growing mobility needs

Public transport service availability: a redefinition of urban landscape structure

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