Researching migrants in informal transit camps along the Balkan Route: Reflections on volunteer activism, access, and reciprocity

Area ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 566-574
Author(s):  
Joanna Jordan ◽  
Sarah Moser
Keyword(s):  
Informal Transit

scholarly journals Anatomy of an Informal Transit City: Mobility Analysis of the Metropolitan Area of Lima

Urban Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franco Jauregui-Fung ◽  
Jeffrey Kenworthy ◽  
Samar Almaaroufi ◽  
Natalia Pulido-Castro ◽  
Sara Pereira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
System Quality ◽  
Sustainable Transport ◽  
Mobility Analysis ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Informal Transit ◽  
German Cities

Lima, as the capital of Peru, has become its first megacity with more than 10 million people in an area that extends over 80 km in a North-South direction. As a city of this size, it faces complex mobility issues with a strong reliance on informal transport modes (buses, minibuses, and paratransit vehicles) due to the deterioration of its transit system quality during the 20th century. This paper examines the current urban situation in Lima through an analysis of the city’s structure, with an emphasis on its transport history and the resulting types of walking, transit, and car-oriented fabrics that can be identified. The mobility analysis was made through data collection, including daily trips by public and private modes, annual passenger kilometers and vehicle kilometers of travel, length of exclusive lanes for public transport and freeways, car and paratransit modes ownership, transport emissions, and safety. These data are used to position Lima in a comparative global context showing its relative strengths and weaknesses in urban form and mobility and providing suggestions for a more sustainable transport and land use system. It is asserted that Lima is an informal transit-oriented city, as distinct from recognized transit metropolises (e.g., Tokyo or German cities such as Berlin or Munich), which often involve private companies, operating under an umbrella of strong government regulation, fare setting, and high service standards. Lima is shown to have some important qualities such as a high density, comparatively low car ownership and freeway provision and still healthy levels of transit and non-motorized mode use despite non-ideal conditions for either. These qualities, if combined with effective governance structures, government commitment to higher quality formal transit systems, which better integrate the important informal transit sector, cessation of high capacity road building, greater protection and encouragement for non-motorized modes and some effective controls over growing car and motorcycle ownership, would see Lima develop a more sustainable transport system.

Informal transit, socio-spatial exclusion, and changing geographies of HIV/AIDS in urban Malawi

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-88
Author(s):  
Paul Mkandawire ◽  
Godwin Arku ◽  
Isaac Luginaah ◽  
Josephine Etowa
Keyword(s):  
Informal Transit ◽  
Spatial Exclusion ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals Examination on the Influence Area of Transit-Oriented Development: Considering Multimodal Accessibility in New Delhi, India

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sangeetha Ann ◽  
Meilan Jiang ◽  
Ghasak Ibrahim Mothafer ◽  
Toshiyuki Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Roc Curves ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Rounding Errors ◽  
Transit Buses ◽  
Influence Area ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys ◽  
Informal Transit

As Indian cities adopt the concept of transit-oriented development (TOD), concerns have arisen regarding the applicability of TOD standards formulated in developed countries in the Indian context. This study aims to estimate the TOD influence areas in New Delhi by examining the last mile connectivity patterns of passengers on the Delhi Metro Railway (DMR). Questionnaire surveys conducted on the last mile connectivity reveals use of various access modes for metro stations in India, although current research only considers walking and cycling to be universal forms of access. Therefore, this study focuses on the DMR’s multimodal accessibility to investigate the last mile distance of each mode. In order to offset the rounding errors of reported distance, a heaping model and multiple imputation (MI) were employed to improve the accuracy of the reported distance. Afterward, distance decay analysis and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to determine the thresholds of last mile distances. The findings show that the influence area differs across travel modes and increases in the order of walking, informal transit, buses, and private transport, respectively.

Analyzing the structure of informal transit: The evening commute problem

2013 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 277-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celeste Chavis ◽  
Carlos F. Daganzo
Keyword(s):  
Informal Transit
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