Classification : JEL R41International audienceIn a number of African cities, a new form of transport is rapidly expanding, the motor bike-taxi. This means of public transport meets a large part of the daily travel needs but it also gives rise to critics from users, other public transport operators and authorities. This paper attempts i) to show that the development of motor bike-taxis represents a “by the bottom-up” response to the multiform crisis of cities and ii) to assess the current place of the motor bike-taxi in the urban transport sector and the daily travel system, its advantages and disadvantages. Our study is mainly based on fieldwork undertaken recently in Douala, i.e. interviews of inhabitants and moto-taxi drivers, a household...
Within a context of deep poverty, how does one accomplish daily travel in Sub-Saharan African cities...
International audienceMotorcycle taxis have become an essential part of the transport sector in an i...
version française du chapitre "Private and public use of motorcycles in cities of Sub-Saharan Africa...
Classification : JEL R41International audienceIn a number of African cities, a new form of transport...
article en accès libre sur le site de la revue : http://echogeo.revues.org/13080International audien...
International audienceMotorcycle taxis (MCT) have been present in many cities of Sub-Saharan Africa ...
During the last decades, daily urban and rural displacements in Cameroonian towns have suffered from...
International audienceThis article analyses the dynamics of motorcycle diffusion in sub-Saharan Afri...
The emergence of motorcycle taxis as a mode of urban transport in Africa can be seen as a bottom-up ...
Sub-Saharan Africa cities are simultaneously confronted with deficiencies of public transport and lo...
Sub-Saharan Africa cities are simultaneously confronted with deficiencies of public transport and lo...
International audienceAs urban growth contributes towards a surge in mobility needs, motorcycles are...
In Kinshasa, as in other cities in sub-Saharan Africa, continuous spatial sprawl combined with signi...
Au cours des dernières décennies, la mobilité dans les villes camerounaises a été marquée par la cro...
L’article se propose de comprendre une question devenue cruciale dans le développement urbain en Afr...
Within a context of deep poverty, how does one accomplish daily travel in Sub-Saharan African cities...
International audienceMotorcycle taxis have become an essential part of the transport sector in an i...
version française du chapitre "Private and public use of motorcycles in cities of Sub-Saharan Africa...
Classification : JEL R41International audienceIn a number of African cities, a new form of transport...
article en accès libre sur le site de la revue : http://echogeo.revues.org/13080International audien...
International audienceMotorcycle taxis (MCT) have been present in many cities of Sub-Saharan Africa ...
During the last decades, daily urban and rural displacements in Cameroonian towns have suffered from...
International audienceThis article analyses the dynamics of motorcycle diffusion in sub-Saharan Afri...
The emergence of motorcycle taxis as a mode of urban transport in Africa can be seen as a bottom-up ...
Sub-Saharan Africa cities are simultaneously confronted with deficiencies of public transport and lo...
Sub-Saharan Africa cities are simultaneously confronted with deficiencies of public transport and lo...
International audienceAs urban growth contributes towards a surge in mobility needs, motorcycles are...
In Kinshasa, as in other cities in sub-Saharan Africa, continuous spatial sprawl combined with signi...
Au cours des dernières décennies, la mobilité dans les villes camerounaises a été marquée par la cro...
L’article se propose de comprendre une question devenue cruciale dans le développement urbain en Afr...
Within a context of deep poverty, how does one accomplish daily travel in Sub-Saharan African cities...
International audienceMotorcycle taxis have become an essential part of the transport sector in an i...
version française du chapitre "Private and public use of motorcycles in cities of Sub-Saharan Africa...