Public Transport Development: Structuring and Territory Coverage

This lecture discusses the challenges faced in public transport development in Africa, such as the vicious cycle of competition between modes, reduced vehicle sizes, increased tariffs, and lack of complementarity. It emphasizes the need to deploy higher-capacity modes and enhance mode complementarity to break this cycle. The lecture also covers the theoretical capacities of different collective modes, the hierarchy of public transport services, financial issues related to higher-capacity modes, and the prerequisites for restructuring public transport. Examples from cities like Quito, Bogota, and Dar es Salaam are used to illustrate the implementation process of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems. The lecture concludes by highlighting the importance of governance, intermodality promotion, and support for existing stakeholders in restructuring public transport networks.