Abstract

AbstractThis introduction to the four papers that make up this themed section locates them in the wider theoretical perspective from which they originate, and highlights the importance of taking into account digital media and technologies as an independent factor that significantly transforms contemporary nationalisms and social identities. Digital media has intensified and accelerated the relationship between culture and politics. It offers new ways of community‐building and identity‐making: both top‐down and bottom‐up, both within the nation‐state and beyond its borders. New research will hopefully explore the complex ways in which both elite and lay understanding and practice of nationalism are evolving in competition and collaboration with each other.

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  • The objectives of this position paper are: ScopeAttention to user behaviour and needs among public transport and non-motorised transport users has only recently started to emerge in transport planning in African cities, research to encourage and support more appropriate interventions has been gradually gathering pace over the last two decades.Transport planning for the most part has privileged elite automobility, where the practice is to draw up plans that focus on the movement of motorised vehicles and road building, the formal sector, and their fit within the wider urban management agenda (Olvera, Plat and Pochet, 2013)

  • Drawing on wider literature and our broader knowledge based on short study periods in many other African countries, we offer reflections as to the degree to which our insights into the experience of the cities cited is an experience shared elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • The impacts can include higher unemployment rates and lower average wages. They cite the case of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where a randomised control experiment to provide youth living in peripheral neighbourhoods with a transit subsidy to search for employment in the city centre led to an increase in employment (26% versus a mean of 19%) and better-quality jobs within four months, compared to a control group, where the employed were more likely to have part-time, informal, local jobs requiring less commuting (Franklin, 2015)

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This publication was commissioned by Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) as part of its programme Mobility and Access in African Cities (MAC). VREF inspires, initiates and supports research and educational activities. Please cite this publication as Porter, G., Abane, A., Lucas, K. This paper is part of a series of position papers commissioned by VREF for the Mobility and Access in African Cities (MAC) initiative. User diversity and mobility practices in Sub-Saharan African cities: understanding the needs of vulnerable populations. Tiwari, G., Khayesi, M., Mitullah., Kobusingye, O., Mohan, D., Zuidgeest. Venter, C., Barrett, I., Zuidgeest, M., Cheure, N. Public transport system design and modal integration in Sub-Saharan African cities.

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