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Emerging Business Models and Service options for Motorcycle Taxis: Insights from 10 Cities in Sub Saharan Africa

Reginald Chetto, Krijn Peters Orcid Logo, Jack Jenkins, Simon Ntramah, Marion Mugisha, Paul Opiyo, Fredrick Owino, Ted Johnson, Rosemarie Santos, Reuben Verheij

Transportation Research Procedia, Volume: 89, Pages: 327 - 337

Swansea University Author: Krijn Peters Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.trpro.2025.05.065

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In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) the rapid and market-driven spread of the motorcycle taxi in the last two or three decades has made it the dominant means of (intermediate) transport in most urban (and rural) settings. Using primary data collected in five SSA countries, as part of a VREF study, this pape...

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