Two main urban forms dominate the profile of Mozambican cities. Those built along national roads and those built inland. These urban forms have different impacts on travel behaviour, in particular walking, which is the main travel mode in many Sub-Sahara African cities. Taking a case study of Alto-molocue, a linear structured city built along the main national road and Milange, a relatively compact inland city, both being small cities with distinct urban forms, this paper aims to determine the influence of urban form on walking behaviour in the two cities. The empirical data used was collected among 130 pedestrian commuters in each city. GIS spatial analysis is used to explore and compare the relation of trip origin and destination on walking behaviour between the two cities. Then, Mann-Whitney non-parametric test is employed to examine the influence of socio-economic, travel behaviour and urban form factors on walking to different travel purposes. Generally, the study findings show that inland cities like Milange, present a better walking environment than linear structured cities built along road corridors like Alto-molocue. For both formal and informal jobs, urban form factors such as activity location and household residence have shown a more important influence on walking in Milange than in Alto-molocue. For other travel purposes (shopping and recreation), the study reveals that socio-economic factors such as income present a strong influence on walking in the city of Milange. The study also shows that inland cities like Milange exhibit shorter walking distances to shopping and recreation activities and people walk more frequently than in cities built along heavy traffic national roads like Alto-molocue. The study findings would be helpful to city planners and decision makers when designing strategies and promotional initiatives for more pedestrian-friendly cities.

两种主要的城市形式主导着莫桑比克城市的轮廓。那些建在国道上的和那些建在内陆的。这些城市形式对出行行为有不同的影响，尤其是步行，这是许多撒哈拉以南非洲城市的主要出行方式。本文以沿国道建设的线性结构城市Alto-molocue和相对紧凑的内陆城市米兰格为例，这两个城市都是具有鲜明城市形态的小城市，旨在确定城市形态对步行行为的影响在两个城市。所使用的经验数据是在每个城市的 130 名步行通勤者中收集的。GIS空间分析用于探索和比较两个城市之间的出行起点和目的地对步行行为的关系。然后，Mann-Whitney 非参数检验用于检查社会经济、出行行为和城市形态因素对步行到不同出行目的的影响。总的来说，研究结果表明，像米兰热这样的内陆城市比沿着道路走廊建造的线性结构城市（如 Alto-molocue）呈现出更好的步行环境。对于正式和非正式工作，活动地点和家庭住所等城市形态因素对米兰日步行的影响比在 Alto-molocue 更为重要。对于其他旅行目的（购物和娱乐），该研究表明，收入等社会经济因素对米兰热市的步行有很大影响。该研究还表明，与 Alto-molocue 等交通繁忙的国道沿线城市相比，米兰热等内陆城市的购物和娱乐活动步行距离较短，人们步行的频率也更高。研究结果将有助于城市规划者和决策者为更适合步行的城市设计战略和推广计划。