Caminar y nada más. Movilidad diaria y pobreza en las ciudades subsaharianas

Lourdes Diaz Olvera (), Didier Plat () and Pascal Pochet ()
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Lourdes Diaz Olvera: LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Didier Plat: LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Pascal Pochet: LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: In the large African cities, where poverty prevails, walking occupies a capital position in daily travel patterns. Disaggregated analysis of travel behaviour of city dwellers who travelled only on foot on a weekday shows that the prevalence of walking as the only available and affordable mean of transport generates travel patterns limited to the vicinity of the home. Populations are thus maintained in the poverty trap. Findings show evidence of the need for considering walking explicitly in urban policies along with the other modes of transport.

Keywords: Data survey; Mobility; Mode of transport; Poverty; Urban transport; Walking; África; transporte urbano; movilidad; caminar; pobreza; medio de transporte; datos encuesta (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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Published in Scripta Nova. Revista Electronica de Geographia y Ciencias Sociales, 2008, XII (261), 15 p

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