Minibus Taxis, Public Transport, and the Poor
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...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/712091529321273883/Minibus-taxis-public-transport-and-the-poor-background-note-for-the-South-Africa-systematic-country-diagnostic http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30018 |
| 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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