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Integrating formal and informal transit into one hybrid passenger transport system in Lagos, Nigeria
Transportation ( IF 4.3 ) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 , DOI: 10.1007/s11116-020-10099-8
Louis G. Alcorn , Alex Karner

Informal minibus services dominate public transportation in Lagos, Nigeria. Local, state, and federal government entities in Nigeria have historically only been able to provide woefully inadequate formal transit systems. Informal transit has sprung up to fill this incredible demand. The cutthroat, individualistic grind of this system produces world-renowned problems of inefficiency, safety and, unreliability of urban transport in one of the world’s most populated cities. Still, the lion’s share of public transit trips in Lagos take place using informal services, which confer the benefits of dynamic transport that formalized mass transit generally cannot achieve. Government agencies preach the need for modernist, top-down imposition of bold, physical infrastructure projects and the eradication of the disorder associated with the informal system. This research takes a critical lens to the complex relationships at play in what currently embodies a competing, dual transit system rooted in institutional corruption. This analysis provides the groundwork for a potential collaborative relationship to develop in this place, leveraging the structural benefits of both the formal, ordered system and the informal system’s adaptive nature and situated knowledges. From this analysis, this research recommends the cultivation of operator associations within the informal sector to form the predominant platform for which the government can forge this complementary relationship.



中文翻译:

在尼日利亚拉各斯将正式和非正式交通整合到一个混合客运系统中

非正式小巴服务主导着尼日利亚拉各斯的公共交通。尼日利亚的地方、州和联邦政府实体历来只能提供严重不足的正规交通系统。非正式交通如雨后春笋般涌现,以满足这一令人难以置信的需求。在这个世界上人口最多的城市之一,这个系统的残酷、个人主义的折磨产生了世界著名的城市交通效率低下、安全和不可靠的问题。尽管如此,拉各斯公共交通出行的大部分是使用非正式服务进行的,这赋予了正规公共交通通常无法实现的动态交通的好处。政府机构宣扬需要现代主义的、自上而下的大胆、有形的基础设施项目,并消除与非正式系统相关的混乱。这项研究以批判的眼光看待当前体现了根植于制度腐败的竞争性双重交通系统中正在发挥作用的复杂关系。这种分析为在这个地方发展潜在的合作关系提供了基础,利用了正式、有序的系统的结构优势以及非正式系统的适应性和情境知识。根据这一分析,本研究建议在非正规部门内培养运营商协会,以形成政府可以建立这种互补关系的主要平台。

更新日期:2020-04-01
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