期刊名称：The Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa (JSDA)
电子版ISSN：1520-5509
出版年度：2007
卷号：9
期号：4
出版社：Institute of Sustainable Development in Africa
摘要：The last fifty years upsurge of urban motorization has been accompanied by social inequalities, traffic congestion, inefficacious public transport, and detrimental impacts on community health due to environmental pollutions. In all this change, the urban poor often have been most adversely affected. Poverty mitigation is an imperative facet of urban sustainable development. The objective of the study reported herein was to shed some light on transport and poverty patterns for some selected African urban areas, during the last decade. In order to facilitate the urban poverty eradication, the study is an attempt to provide clues and empirical evidences of the possible interrelationships between urban transport and urban poverty. Using centralized databases of international agencies, for the period of 1993 to 1998, for a set of African cities, urban information pertinent to transport and poverty was collected. The study database consisted of information regarding population, poverty, travel behaviour and other pertinent social, environmental and economic attributes of the selected urban areas. The database univariate statistical analysis provided clues on data validation and completeness. Due to data inaccessibility, incompleteness and missing, around half of the original set of cities were screened and selected for final detailed analysis. The multivariable statistical analyses for the finally selected cities showed interesting results and relations in connection with urban transport and urban poor, and facilitated mathematical modelling. For the period of 1993 to 1998, elasticities of urban poverty with respect to urban transport were developed. The elasticities provided further clues into urban transport and urban poverty trends, and were used in taxonomy of the African urban areas. The appraisal of developed elasticities reflected considerable time-series variations during the 6-year period of 1993 to 1998. To support urban sustainable development, the study corroborated the significance of urban transport intervention challenges if they are expected to play proactive roles in urban poverty reduction and alleviation.
