Abstract
This research paper has to be set in the framework of an important urban growth. Such urbanization goes along with urban spreading that generates an increase in both urban mobility needs and the use of public transport.The paper focuses on public transport effectiveness in Brazzaville, from the analysis of determinants linked to public transport’s generalized cost on the one hand, and to the nuisance effects of such public transport on another hand.
Highlights
The world population is getting more and more urban, in line with the evolution of urbanization rate between 1950 and 2050
Based upon the input of the literature review, we have considered a theoretical model of public transport effectiveness (EFTC) associated both with the generalized cost of public transport and nuisance effects of public transport
In this article, a special focus was laid on the effectiveness of public transport in Brazzaville, in the context of the increase in public transport utilization in that city
Summary
When observing urbanization in Africa, three major persistent trends are noticeable: a lower but increasing urbanization rate, in relation to the rest of the world, a faster increase in urban population, and a very heavy concentration of the population in big cities (Damon, 2016). These two districts represent 50.1% of the area of the city of Brazzaville (INS, 2016) Such an urban spreading made it possible for private-owned vehicles to play a key role, as many people have recourse to them for their daily moving, notably from home to office and vice versa. Godard (2009) states that in sub Saharan Africa, “the other face of mobility is the importance given to walking, which is almost the exclusive means of conveyance for an important part of the urban population It represents an average rating from 50 to 80% of mobility mode in the majority of towns”. Information on these markets is asymmetric, as indicated by the Akerlof model (1970) which pinpoints the advantages to have an item that seems to be good, rather than being good: this is deceptive counterfeiting, according to which poor-quality cars chase off genuine or good ones (Moyo Nzololo, 2016a)
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