Heinrichs, Dirk and Goletz, Mirko and Lenz, Barbara (2016) Negotiating territory: strategies of informal transport operators to access public space in urban Africa and Latin America. World Conference on Transport Research - WCTR 2016 Shanghai, 2016-07-10 - 2016-07-15, Shanghai, China.
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Abstract
Informal transport receives increased attention to improve mobility conditions mainly in cities in the global south. This article explores strategies by which informal transport operators seek to gain and maintain access to urban space necessary for their operation and discusses the lessons for policy related to informal services. It focuses on two cases of urban informal transport: bicycle rickshaw drivers in Bogotá, Colombia and motorcycle taxis in N’Djamena, Tschad. The results show that the kind and type of public space as well as the individual and collective responses to secure access to this public space differ between the two cases. To some extent this is attributed to the role and presence of actors from the ‘local state’. Access to public space in Bogotá is the result of negotiation and ‘co-regulation’ by the associations of operators and government organizations, accompanied by a process of professionalization of informal operators. This is not the case in N’Djamena, where the use of public space is largely the result of self-regulation by the federations of motortaxi drivers.
Item URL in elib: | https://elib.dlr.de/98947/ | ||||||||||||||||
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Document Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) | ||||||||||||||||
Title: | Negotiating territory: strategies of informal transport operators to access public space in urban Africa and Latin America | ||||||||||||||||
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Date: | 2016 | ||||||||||||||||
Refereed publication: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
Open Access: | No | ||||||||||||||||
Gold Open Access: | No | ||||||||||||||||
In SCOPUS: | No | ||||||||||||||||
In ISI Web of Science: | No | ||||||||||||||||
Status: | Published | ||||||||||||||||
Keywords: | Informal Transport; Mototaxi; bicycle rickshaw; Bogotá; N’Djamena; Public Space | ||||||||||||||||
Event Title: | World Conference on Transport Research - WCTR 2016 Shanghai | ||||||||||||||||
Event Location: | Shanghai, China | ||||||||||||||||
Event Type: | international Conference | ||||||||||||||||
Event Start Date: | 10 July 2016 | ||||||||||||||||
Event End Date: | 15 July 2016 | ||||||||||||||||
HGF - Research field: | Aeronautics, Space and Transport | ||||||||||||||||
HGF - Program: | Transport | ||||||||||||||||
HGF - Program Themes: | Transport System | ||||||||||||||||
DLR - Research area: | Transport | ||||||||||||||||
DLR - Program: | V VS - Verkehrssystem | ||||||||||||||||
DLR - Research theme (Project): | V - Urbane Mobilität (old), V - Verkehrsentwicklung und Umwelt II (old) | ||||||||||||||||
Location: | Berlin-Adlershof | ||||||||||||||||
Institutes and Institutions: | Institute of Transport Research > Mobility and Urban Development Institute of Transport Research > Leitungsbereich VF | ||||||||||||||||
Deposited By: | Huber, Linda | ||||||||||||||||
Deposited On: | 09 Nov 2015 09:10 | ||||||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 24 Apr 2024 20:04 |
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