How can GPS/GNSS tracking data be used to improve our understanding of informal transport? A discussion based on a feasibility study from Dar es Salaam

Informal transport is an important factor for people's daily mobility in most developing countries, in urban as well as in rural areas. It has grown rapidly in recent years and influences cities' appearances all around the world. But little is known about its operation, as informal transport is highly dynamic and its operation mostly unregulated by the state. This paper discusses how informal transport can be better understood by using GPS tracking data. The methodology is exemplified using results from a feasibility study from Dar es Salaam. The results show that GPS tracking has great potential to provide insights into the functionality of informal transport, such as its role as a feeder mode in the transport system, as well as into the comparative advantages and disadvantages of different modes of transport. Moreover, by delivering spatially locatable information on mobility developments, it can deliver important information for integrated planning with regard to better coordinating the interwoven developments of urban settlements, growing mobility demand, and transport supply.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2018.08.015
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692317306701
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  • © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Goletz, Mirko
  • Ehebrecht, Daniel
• Publication Date: 2020-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transport Geography
  • Volume: 88
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0966-6923
  • Serial URL: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jtrangeo

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic tracking; Developing countries; Feasibility analysis; Global Positioning System; Passenger transportation
• Geographic Terms: Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01684818
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 31 2018 9:15AM