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Minibus Taxis, Public Transport, and the Poor / Andrew Kerr.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Kerr, Andrew.
- Series:
- Other papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Other papers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Household Surveys.
- Inequality.
- National Urban Development Policies and Strategies.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Roads and Transport.
- Transport.
- Transport Costs.
- Urban Development.
- Urban Services to the Poor.
- Local Subjects:
- Household Surveys.
- Inequality.
- National Urban Development Policies and Strategies.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Roads and Transport.
- Transport.
- Transport Costs.
- Urban Development.
- Urban Services to the Poor.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2018.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This report, a background note for the South Africa Systematic Country Diagnostic, documents public transport accessibility, focusing particularly on minibus taxis and on poor households, and describe the costs of commuting to work, using the 2013 National Household Travel Survey conducted by Statistics South Africa. It also explains how the minibus taxi industry works, based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2013 and 2017 in the minibus taxi industry, and what this implies for costs and accessibility of minibuses to users. It analyzes publicly available data on fatal crashes and police data on violence to describes the risks to users of public transport from fatal crashes and also taxi violence. It also suggest some policy options to improve transport outcomes for the poor.
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