Improving urban transport for the poor / Ian Thomson.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Thomson, Ian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic and Social Development.

Local Subjects:

Economic and Social Development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (15 pages)

Contained In:

CEPAL Review Vol. 1993, no. 49, p. 139-153 1993:49<139 16840348

Place of Publication:

New York : United Nations, 1993.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Even though Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized and the least poor of the regions of the developing world, a quarter of the region's population live, or rather exist, below the poverty line. Many of these are town or city dwellers, Many lower income families spend more than 15% of their income on urban public transport: a proportion which has been rising continuously over the past few decades because bus operating costs per passenger have increased as cities get bigger and car-created congestion has made each bus less productive.

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