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Productive and liveable cities : guidelines for pedestrian and bicycle traffic in African cities / Marius de Langen, Rustica Tembele.
LIBRA HE366.5 .L36 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Langen, Marius de.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City traffic--Africa.
- City traffic.
- Pedestrians--Africa.
- Pedestrians.
- Bicycles--Africa.
- Bicycles.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 411 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Version 1.3.
- Other Title:
- Guidelines for pedestrian and bicycle traffic in African cities
- Place of Publication:
- Lisse ; Exton, PA : Balkema, [2001]
- Summary:
- This study offers guidelines for pedestrian and bicycle traffic in African cities. The text is based on the combination of studies and test findings obtained in pilot projects carried out in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Eldoret and Morogoro between 1995 and 2000.
- Contents:
- 3 Summary of findings and recommendations 13
- 3.1 Is the urban mobility issue important? 13
- 3.2 Findings of the SSATP pilot projects 20
- 4 Urban mobility conditions and problems in Africa 29
- Part I Planning Methods
- 5 Characteristics of urban pedestrian and bicycle traffic 39
- 5.1 Pedestrian and bicycle traffic requirements 40
- 5.2 Sufficient road reserves 42
- 6 Urban road networks 45
- 6.1 Function, Shape and Use of roads 45
- 6.2 Road categories and hierarchy 46
- 6.3 Pedestrian and bicycle traffic: four requirements 52
- 6.4 Significant engineering aspects during the planning stage 55
- 7 Action plan for pedestrians and cyclists 61
- 7.1 Route determination and route inspection 61
- 7.2 Selection of interventions 67
- 8 Urban Mobility Plan for pedestrian and bicycle traffic 71
- 8.1 SWOT of the urban transport system 76
- 8.2 Overview of existing land use and road infrastructure networks 76
- 8.3 Macro-analysis of the present mobility: transport system performance and costs 77
- 8.4 Micro-analysis of the present mobility: understanding changes in travel behavior 83
- 8.5 Plan of User Needs 87
- 8.6 Urban transport policy scenarios 89
- 8.7 Choice of mobility policies 91
- 8.8 Design of the future network of pedestrian routes and bicycle routes 93
- 8.9 Choice of design standards 100
- 9 Monitoring 103
- 9.1 Monitoring as an aid to improve existing roads 104
- 9.2 Monitoring as an aid to long-term transport policy preparation 110
- 9.3 Forecasting and monitoring 113
- 10 Appraisal 115
- Part II Improvements on Existing Roads
- 11 Improving existing roads 121
- 12 A menu of interventions 125
- 12.1 Selection of an intervention 125
- 12.2 Menu 1. Pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure 128
- 12.3 Menu 2. Traffic calming on existing roads 131
- 13 Examples of interventions 135
- 1 Unobstructed walkway 137
- 2 Walkway improvement along a road corridor 139
- 3 Pedestrian route network development 142
- 4 Walkway pavements 146
- 5 NMT bridge 150
- 6 NMT-only route 152
- 7 Raised zebra crossing 156
- 8 Painted zebra crossing without speed calming 160
- 9 Speed hump 163
- 10 Pedestrian crossing island 166
- 11 Road shoulder separation MT-NMT 170
- 12 Intersection corner realignment 174
- 13 Median 177
- 14 Bus bays with raised pedestrian crossings 180
- 15 Road narrowing with bicycle slips 184
- 16 Bicycle lane along collector road 186
- 17 Bicycle track along urban corridor 188
- 18 Mixed NMT track along an urban corridor 191
- 19 Urban open space redevelopment to city park 195
- 20 Bicycle route network planning and design 200
- 21 Learning from errors 208
- 22 Aggregate effects of traffic calming 210
- Part III Design Concepts and Recommended Urban Road Designs
- 14 Design concepts 215
- 14.1 Functional classification of urban roads 215
- 14.2 Mixing or separated MT and NMT? 215
- 14.3 Access roads 220
- 14.4 Collector roads 222
- 14.5 Urban corridors 229
- 14.6 Design philosophy for urban pedestrian and bicycle traffic 231
- 15 Recommended design for urban roads, with emphasis on the NMT elements 239
- 16 Detailed design aspects 265
- 16.1 Basic design dimensions of NMT and MT 265
- 16.2 Pedestrian walkway capacity 274
- 16.3 Bicycle track and bicycle lane capacity 275
- 16.4 Carts 278
- 16.5 Section design details, walkways, bicycle lanes/tracks 278
- 16.6 Intersection design details of walkways and bicycle lanes and tracks 287
- 16.7 NMT-MT crossings 295
- 16.8 Separations between NMT and MT lanes 299
- 16.9 Construction aspects 303
- Part IV User Participation
- 17 User Participation in municipal programs to improve mobility 307
- 17.1 User Participation in municipal programs to improve mobility. Why? 307
- 17.2 Different forms of user involvement and participation 309
- 17.3 User Groups: identification of problems 313
- 17.4 General User Platform: articulation and prioritization of user needs 315
- 17.5 Local User Platforms: planning and implementation of interventions 317
- 17.6 Awareness raising and publicity 319
- 17.7 User Association: management and maintenance of public infrastructure 321
- 17.8 Issues in making user participation effective 324
- 17.9 About methods of setting up a user platform 328
- 17.10 About focus group discussions methods 333
- 18 Examples of User Participation 335
- 18.1 Why focus on urban mobility? 335
- 18.2 The role of professionals and of users 336
- 18.3 Examples of user participation in NMT mobility improvement 338
- 18.4 Some lessons learned 339
- Case 1 Safe pedestrian crossing and traffic calming along Temeke Street 340
- Case 2 NMT-only river crossing to create a good, direct NMT route 342
- Case 3 Development of a public city park in a low-income area 344
- Annex Plan Preparation Protocols
- 1 Route inspection protocol 349
- Table 1. Route problem analysis 351
- Table 2. Route inspection form 355
- 2 Addressing NMT-route problems through interventions in Use, Shape and Function 357
- 3 Intervention report protocol 359
- 4 Stakeholder analysis outline 362
- 5 SWOT analysis outline 363
- 6 Participatory workshop methods 365
- 7 Design workshop outline 370
- 8 Work planning check-list for detailed design of NMT interventions 376
- 9 Household travel survey 379
- 10 Traffic counts 389
- 11 Speed measurement 393
- 12 Traffic conflict and accident observation 396
- 13 Unit costs of transport 398
- 15 Benefit-cost calculations 406
- 16 Focus group discussion protocol 410.
- ISBN:
- 9058091988
- 9058091996
- OCLC:
- 48145674
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