On 2018 the BRT+ CoE hosted the Workshop Innovation in Africa, on Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. These are the slides of the main sessions of the event.

1. BRT, Minibus Systems and Innovation in
African Cities Jacqueline M. Klopp

2.  Minibus systems often missing in transportation
planning despite ubiquity and importance
Basic Observations
Nairobi Vision 2030/Thika Highway

3. This has transferred over to mass transit planning….
Minibuses are in the white empty spaces?
Little holistic data and analysis
based on data of actual minibus
systems, rail, NMT (fragmented,
corridor approach)

4. BRT planning: Missing Data for an
Integrated Network
Addis Ababa City Administration Transport
Programs Management Office
BRT-Project Management Unit
?

5. Source: Transaction Capital 2017 from SA Taxi telematics data as at 11 October 2016 |
National Land Transport Strategic Framework 2015

6. Emerging trends: Minibuses not
going to disappear
Growing work on paratransit, policies, practices,
operations (Paratransit in African Cities, Taken for a
Ride, Ghana on the Go, )…growing literature but no
systematic review or learning across cities.
Signs of innovation within minibus sector (is BRT
necessary as a catalyst for change and for introducing
new technologies?)
Some innovation within cities eg. in South Africa with
the greatest experience of BRT…
“A Review of Minibus-Taxi Reform Initiatives in
South African Cities” World Bank forthcoming

7. Service Contracts plus Technology

8. Smart Matatu and drivers!
Erin Kelley Greg Lane David Scḧonholzer and Peter Wagacha Waiganjo (2017)
Increases in productivity drivers, owners/higher incomes… safety
improvements, driver income increases needed.

9. Improvements in Fleet Management:
AccraMobile Case
Accra and smart Matatu
Saddier and Johnson
2016)- need for rank
changes average waiting
3.5 hours a day!
Saddier, S, Z. Patterson, A.
Johnson and N. Wiseman.
2016.
Fickle or Flexible?
Assessing Paratransit
Reliability (quite reliable!)

10. Improve Infrastructure Wallacedene Taxi
Rank Cape Town

11. Maputo: Passenger Information Improving
Business, Advertising

12. Public Transport with Minibus Mapping
for planning, passenger service, and as a new engagement strategy
Nairobi (DigitalMatatus) Maputo (Mapos dos Chapas)

13. Mapping Can Support Formalization/More
Positive Engagement
Officialization of
bus stops
1
Map of collective
transport across
modes
2
Map owned by
the local
authority
3
Maputo: City has started to formalize stops

14. COLLABORATIVE
DATA COLLECTION
DEVELOP OPEN DATA= CHANGE
USER/PLANNING
APPS AND INFO
TRANSPORT
MODELS
PUBLIC TRANSIT
VISIBLE
IN (GTFS) STANDARD
FORMAT
ONLINE AND
PAPER
INFORMATION FOR
ADVOCACY
INNOVATION,
EMPOWERED
USERS ANDCITY
PLANNERS
+
+ ==
Leverage Growing Cellphone Use to Collect
Missing Transit Data

16. Disorganized transit systems “planned” by the actions of many private actors do
naturally evolve certain forms of efficiency, but they do not naturally evolve into
the most efficient and productive network for the whole city. That final push
into coherence requires network design!
Jarett Walker 2014
Network Analysis and Design

17. Nairobi’s Matatus on Google Maps:
Accessing transport is also information
Looking at actual travel…. NMT always there on map!
New Passenger Services: Increases Business

18. Kenya Urbanization
Review
World Bank 2016
Measuring Access to Services

19. Power of the Digital- new analysis

20. Cairo: New communities rely on microtransit

21. Displace and Replace or Embrace?
• We need a balanced, holistic approach with BRT fitting
into a bigger picture on integrated transit
• We need better data and analysis of the whole system
including minibuses… also for better pre, post analysis
and assessment of options
• Better to work with minibuses on a more respectful
basis (no politics can be skirted via BRT processes)
• Incremental approach- better idea?
• Can we build on the ongoing innovation in the minibus
sector for better more equitable transport in African
cities?