Greater Cairo is a sprawling metropolis known for its daunting traffic jams. A lack of sufficient rapid transit options and rapidly increasing ownership of private cars leads to daily traffic snarls on the many wide roads that criss-cross the metropolitan area. Responding to these issues, the New Urban Communities Authority (NUCA), in partnership with the…
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In as complex an urban environment as central Dar es Salaam, streets have multiple functions. They allow cars, daladalas and other vehicles to access buildings and pass through the centre. They allow trucks to make deliveries. They provide space for parking and loading. They are places where people walk. And streets provide some of the city centre’s few open spaces – places for residents,…
Densely populated Cairo and Giza have begun to look to bus rapid transit (BRT) as a cost-effective means of expanding the rapid transit network in a short time frame, in order to solve problems with traffic congestion in the metro area. In 2015, ITDP preformed a pre-feasibility study for bus rapid transit (BRT) in Cairo,…
The Ndovu/A104 BRT project in Nairobi is currently on a trajectory to become a world‐class BRT project. The highest quality BRT systems are designed around a good service plan. A service plan determines where the BRT routes will go, how big stations will need to be and how many passengers a BRT system will attract….