Transportation Conditions and Access to Services in a Context of Urban Sprawl and Deregulation. The Case of Dar es Salaam

Transportation Conditions and Access to Services in a Context of Urban Sprawl and Deregulation. The Case of Dar es Salaam

[SHS:ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economy and finances

Accessibility

Unplanned urbanization

Social exclusion

Poverty

Walking trip

Public transport

Africa

Major deficiencies in urbanisation and transportation systems are reinforcing patterns of social and urban segregation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city. Analysis of the 1993 Human Resources Development Survey shows that there are numerous obstacles to the daily travel of the city's inhabitants, notably the poor. These barriers weigh heavily on schedules, complicate access to services ever further, limit the use of urban space, and place considerable pressure on household budgets. Consequently, the poorest individuals tend to retreat into their neighbourhood where the low-quality urban facilities are unable to assist in the development of human and social capital and economic opportunities, the alleviation of poverty or the prevention of social exclusion.

Diaz Olvera, Lourdes

Plat, Didier

Pochet, Pascal

Transport Policy

ISSN:0967-070X

Transport policy

Transport policy

2003

ENG

article in peer-reviewed journal

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00068249

DOI: 10.1016/S0967-070X(03)00056-8

PUBLICNRS: 494296

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/06/82/49/PDF/dsm_tpolicy.pdf

Oxford

United Kingdom