Public Transport Planning and Management in Developing Countries

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Public Transport Planning in Urban Areas

of travellers in light of proposed infrastructure improvements. For example, if a road is

widened from say two lane to four lane to improve the travel time of traffic using that

road the resultant improvements may not be as anticipated since it is not the same traffic

that will continue to use it but more traffic may come on this road either because some

people now find it more attractive or some people leave public transport and use private

vehicle on this road since they find it more attractive to travel by their own mode using

this widened road now. Similar