[sustran] Re: Bamako Transport meeting and rural transport

[Brendan Finn]

I have been working in the domain of rural transport and demand-responsive transport for the last 10 years, in a mix of collaborative EU research and demonstration projects, and in local projects in Ireland. Over that period of time we have built up a certain store of knowledge about the users, challenges, needs, solutions, organisational structures, technologies etc. This covers rural, periurban and urban environments, and takes into account also users with special needs.

I don't presume that either the challenges or the solutions in European rural areas are directly transferable to African or Asian environments. I don't presume either that they have nothing in common. After all, we are usually dealing with target people who do not have access to a personal car, have limited or no passenger transport services available, and face many economic, social and personal factors which impact on their quality of life. 

Either through this forum or off-line, I would be interested to exchange some knowledge on users, the challenges they face, their needs, and barriers to implementation of solutions which have visible potential. This would allow us to see the extent of convergence or divergence among the rural communities in Europe, Africa and Asia. When that is established, we could see whether there are environments where existing solutions and experience are transferable.

For information, one of the European projects called CONNECT has a Knowledge Library dealing with Flexible Transport, with either access to or reviews of about 250 reference works. You will find it at www.flexibletransport.com   If anyone wants to add documents or reviews to the Library, please let me know.

With best wishes, 


Brendan Finn.
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>From Brendan Finn, ETTS Ltd.   e-mail : etts at indigo.ie   tel : +353.87.2530286
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ranjith de Silva 
  To: 'Asia and the Pacific sustainable transport' 
  Cc: peter.njenga at ifrtd.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 8:52 AM
  Subject: [sustran] Re: Bamako Transport meeting


  Dear Geoff

   

  IFRTD has done some work on Rural Transport Services. I'm copying this to Peter Njenga , who would be in a position to provide you with some information.

   

  Regards.

   

  Ranjith

   

  -----Original Message-----
  From: sustran-discuss-bounces+ranjithsd=sltnet.lk at list.jca.apc.org [mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+ranjithsd=sltnet.lk at list.jca.apc.org] On Behalf Of Eric Britton
  Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 9:42 PM
  To: Sustran-discuss at jca.apc.org
  Cc: edmondsg at ilo.org
  Subject: [sustran] Bamako Transport meeting

   

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Geoff Edmonds [mailto:Edmondsg at ilo.org] 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 6:15 PM
  To: Gender and Transport
  Cc: Chris Donnges
  Subject: [gatnet] Re: Bamako Transport meeting

   

  Dear Paul,

   

  Like you I have been a silent participant.

   

  What you have been doing on rural tranpsort services would be very interesting for us especially in relation to the part of our programme dealing with local level planning and the application of the Integrated Rural Acessibility Planning tool.

   

  Whilst rural transport services are not necessarily a major problem in the Asian region there is still a prevailing attitude that if a rural access is provided the transport services will automatically follow and this is clearly not the case. As part of our work in Nepal with a World Bank rural access and infrastructure project we will be conducting a study of rural transport services. There is also some work recently completed work in Vietnam by the ADB on the same subject.

   

  If it is available, we would appreciate seeing a copy of your study report.

   

  Best regards,

   

  Geoff  

   

   

   

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  Geoff Edmonds

  Programme Coordinator

  ILO/ASIST-Asia Pacific

  P.O. Box 2-349

  Bangkok 10200

  Thailand

  Tel: (66 2) 288 2303

  Fax: (66 2) 288 1062

  email: edmondsg at ilo.org

   

  >>> paulstarkey at animaltraction.com 08/11/2005 21:24:56 >>>

  Dear Mamoeketsi, Mary and GATNET colleagues

   

  I have been following GATNET discussions since they 

  first started, although I am generally a silent participant.

   

  People have been talking about the forthcoming SSATP 

  meeting in Bamako. At this, I will be presenting, with members

  of a small team contracted to ITC, the results of an 

  SSATP-commissioned study to develop and test a methodology

  for rapidly assessing rural transport services in an a rural area 

  (region or province). In the participative methodology we have

  developed, we have tried to ensure that gender and transport issues

  are assessed in relation to existing and potential motorised and 

  non-motorised transport services. The methodology includes gathering

  the views of a wide range of transport users (women and men), 

  operators and regulatory authorities. The methodology has been 

  based on the observed a hierarchies of hub-and-spoke transport 

  systems (village, market town and regional hubs) with survey sampling

  related to the remoteness of towns and villages. In all user categories,

  at least two out of five informants should be women (with women

  transport operators interviewed where this is appropriate).

   

  Testing the methodology in selected regions of Burkina Faso, 

  Cameroon, Tanzania and Zambia has yielded some fascinating

  new insights relating to existing rural transport services, and has

  highlighted some important gender-related transport issues.

   

  I hope that GATNET members who are participating in the Bamako

  meeting will be free to come to the presentation on Rural Transport

  Services (on Tuesday 15 Nov, I believe) and contribute to the discussions.

   

  I look forward to seeing people there.

  With good wishes to all

  Paul

   

    Paul Starkey

    Team Leader, Rural Transport Services Study

    Mail: Oxgate, 64 Northcourt Avenue, Reading RG2 7HQ, UK

    Tel:  0118-987 2152          Fax: + 44 (0)118-931 4525

    Email: p.h.starkey at reading.ac.uk or paulstarkey at animaltraction.com 

    Website: http://www.animaltraction.com 

   

   



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