Rural Transport Survey Techniques 5:5:a Rural Transport Knowledge Base Rural Travel and Transport Program 20011 RURAL TRANSPORT SURVEY TECHNIQUES

Rural transport planning is placing less emphasis on infrastructure development, and more on the provision of transport services which meet the local community and individual needs. To understand the nature of these transport needs requires a much fuller appreciation (than has perhaps been the case in the past) of community life and the contribution that transport can and does make to sustainable livelihoods. It also requires a clear understanding of cross-sectoral linkages and the impacts throughout the local economy which result from transport development. This understanding can only be developed through local knowledge, with the joint participation of the enquirer, the local community and other stakeholders who have an interest in the outcome of proposals for transport development. Participatory enquiry also supports a much greater focus on poverty issues, and the role of transport in sustainable livelihoods. Notwithstanding this need for participatory enquiry, there is still a need for the traditional surveys that establish the nature of the existing transport framework, an