ASSESSING THE EFFECTS OF MOTOR TRICYCLE TAXIS BOOM

ON PUBLIC TRANSPORTION: A CASE OF LILONGWE AREA 33-KCH

A DISSERTATION DEFENSE

YONA NYONDO

SUPERVISOR : MR. KACHAMBA

SUBMITTED TO THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI IN PART-FULFILMENT OF THE

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DIPLOMA IN MONITORING & EVALUATION

SEPTEMBER 2015

INTRODUCTION

PROBLEM STATEMENT

STUDY OBJECTIVES

RESEARCH QUESTION

LIMITATIONS

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

DATA COLLECTION

ANALYSIS

RESULTS

CONCLUSIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS

OUTLINE

INTRODUCTION TRANSPORT ON ROADS CAN BE ROUGHLY GROUPED INTO

TWO CATEGORIES, TRANSPORTATION OF GOODS AND

TRANSPORTATION OF PEOPLE

IN MALAWI THE MAJOR PROVIDERS OF COMMUTER

TRANSPORT ARE THE MINIBUS OPERATORS WHO HAVE

FLOODED THE MARKET SINCE THE MID-1990S.

SINCE EARLY OF YEAR 2014, THERE HAS BEEN AN INFLUX OF

THE MOTOR TRICYCLE TAXIS POPULARLY KNOWN AS

‘TINJINGA’ ON THE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SERVICE IN

LILONGWE, MOSTLY SEEN ON THE ROADS OF AREA 33, KCH

PROBLEM STATEMENT MUCH RESEARCH ON THE MOTOR TRICYCLE

TAXIS HAS BEEN DONE IN THE DEVELOPING

COUNTRIES OF ASIA AS WELL AS IN SOME

AFRICAN COUNTRIES.

ADETUNJI MUSILIMU (2013), ASSESSED THE

QUALITY OF URBAN TRANSPORT SERVICES IN

NIGERIA IN HIS STUDY THAT COVERED MUCH

ON THE EFFECTS OF THE MOTOR TRICYCLE

TAXIS ON PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN

NIGERIA.

PROBLEM STATEMENT

THERE HAS HOWEVER NOT BEEN ANY RESEARCH

OF MOTOR TRICYCLE TAXIS IN MALAWI, SINCE

THIS TREND IS RELATIVELY NEW. THERE IS A NEED

TO KNOW THE EFFECTS OF THE MOTOR TRICYCLE

TAXIS ON PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION DESPITE IT

BEING NEW. IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT THIS

STUDY WAS DONE, FOCUSING ON

TRANSPORTATION BETWEEN AREA 33 AND TOWN

(SHOPRITE).

STUDY OBJECTIVES

EFFECTS OF THE INFLUX OF MOTOR

TRICYCLE PASSENGER TAXIS ON

TRANSPORTATION SERVICE DELIVERY

STUDY OBJECTIVES

TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF THE

MOTOR TRICYCLE TAXIS TO COMMUTERS

IN THE AREA

TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF THE

MOTOR TRICYCLE PASSENGER TAXI ON

THE OPERATIONS OF ALTERNATIVE

TRANSPORT SERVICE PROVIDERS IN THE

AREA.

MOTOR TRICYCLE TAXIS MORE PREFERRED ?

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

COMMON REASONS FOR PREFERENCE ?

MOTOR TRICYCLE TAXIS AFFECTED BUSINESS

OF OTHER OPERATORS ?

COMMUTERS MORE SATISFIED NOW THAN

BEFORE ?

RESEARCH LIMITATIONS NO CURRENT MOTOR

TRICYCLE TAXIS

INFORMATION IN

MALAWI IN

COMPARISON TO

OTHER FORMS OF

PUBLIC

TRANSPORTATION

DESIGN AND

METHODOLOGY

DESIGN & METHODOLOGY

QUANTITATIVE APPROACH WAS USED TO COLLECT DATA FOR THIS STUDY

THE STUDY DIVIDED PARTICIPANTS INTO CLUSTERS

AND THEN RANDOMLY SAMPLED WITHIN EACH CLUSTER TO SELECT THE PARTICIPANTS.

THIS ENSURED THAT EACH INDIVIDUAL WAS GIVEN EQUAL CHANCE OF BEING CHOSEN.

THE STUDY SAMPLED A TOTAL OF 45 (90%) PARTICIPANTS OUT OF 50

RESULTS

27 18

DEMOGRAPHIC INFO

10 10 9 8 8

DEMOGRAPHIC INFO

DEMOGRAPHIC INFO

AVERAGE AGE : 32 (Std. Dev. ± 12 yrs)

f %

MINIBUS 20 44%

PERSONAL CAR 10 22%

TAXI 8 18%

KABANZA 6 13%

WALKING 1 2%

ALTENATIVE MODE ?

I PREFER TINJINGA OVER OTHER MODES OF

TRANSPORTATION IN THE AREA BECAUSE THEY ARE

CHEAPER

I PREFER TINJINGA OVER OTHER MODES OF

TRANSPORTATION IN THE AREA BECAUSE THEY ARE

CHEAPER

I PREFER TINJINGA OVER OTHER MODES OF

TRANSPORTATION IN THE AREA BECAUSE THEY

ARE ALWAYS AVAILABLE

I PREFER TINJINGA OVER OTHER MODES OF

TRANSPORTATION IN THE AREA BECAUSE THEY

HAVE LESS WAITING TIMES

I PREFER TINJINGA OVER OTHER MODES OF

TRANSPORTATION IN THE AREA BECAUSE I GET

TO BOARD WHICH EVER I WANT (CHOICE)

UNLIKE WITH OTHER MODES OF TRANSPORT BEFORE,

TINJINGA CAN TAKE ME DIRECTLY TO MY; COLLEGE, HOSPITAL,

WORK, PLACE OF BUSINESS & AT A FAIR PRICE.

TINJINGA ARE NOW A SOLUTION OF CONNECTING BETWEEN

CENTER TOWN (SHOPRITE) AND THE AREA, THAN THE

SITUATION BEFORE

THE INFLUX OF TINJINGA HAS BROUGHT IN FAR MORE

TRANSPORTATION CHALLENGES IN THE AREA THAN BEFORE

OVERALL, I AM MORE SATISFIED NOW THAN BEFORE WITH

COMMUTER TRANSPORTATION SERVICES IN THE AREA

OPERATORS EXPERIENCE

OTHER

I USED TO MAKE MORE TRIPS CARRYING PASSANGERS,

BEFORE THE COMING OF TINJINGA

IT TAKES MORE TIME TO LOAD THESE DAYS, THAN BEFORE

THE COMING OF TINJINGA IN THE AREA

I WOULD BE VERY HAPPY IF TINJINGA OPERTORS WOULD

RELOCATE TO SOME OTHER PLACE

THE COMING OF TINJINGA HAS NOT IN ANY WAY AFFECTED MY

BUSINESS, IN FACT MY BUSINESS IS FLOURISHING NOW

THAN BEFORE

CONCLUSSIONS THE STUDY ESTABLISHED THE BROADER EFFECTS OF THE MOTOR

TRICYCLE PASSENGER TAXI TO OTHER OPERATORS IN THE AREA. THE

FINDINGS SHOWED THAT ALL OF THE OTHER OPERATOR

RESPONDENTS EXPRESSED HOW UNRECEPTIVE THEY WERE OF THE

BOOMING MOTOR TRICYCLE TAXIS IN THE AREA.

THE STUDY CLEARLY ECHOED THE MODAL SPLIT THEORY THAT

BECAUSE OF THEIR VIABILITY, PRICE, QUICKNESS, AMONGST OTHER

CHARACTERISTICS, THE MOTOR TRICYCLES ARE MORE PREFERRED IN

AREA 33 – KCH.

RECOMMENDATIONS OTHER TRANSPORT SERVICE OPERATORS IN THE AREA

NEED TO WORK ON IMPROVING ON TIMELINESS OF THEIR

TRANSPORTATION SERVICES SO AS TO MAKE IT RELEVANT

TO THE COMMUTERS OF THE AREA WHO ARE USUALLY IN A

RUSH

OTHER AREAS OF IMPROVEMENT WOULD BE THE

TRANSPORTATION FARES & MAKING THE SERVICES MORE

AVAILABLE TO THE KINDS OF COMMUTERS OF THE AREA.

ANOTHER WAY OF WINING CUSTOMERS WOULD BE IN

MAKING THEIR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES MORE VIABLE

AND WITH LESS WAITING TIMES FOR THE TYPE OF

COMMUTERS IN THE AREA.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MR. G. K A C H A M B A

MR. C H I K O P A

MRS. C H A P O L A

MRS. K A M A N G A

MR. K A M A N G A

MR. G O N A N I

FR. S U W E D I

MR. B A N D A

MS. K A P E S A

MR. G O N D W E

MR. J I Y A J I Y A

D M E S T U D E N T S

A L L R E S P O N D E N T S