Paratransit, Built Environment, and Urban Mobility – a Responsive Relationship

Elsawy, Ahmed A and Ayad, Hany M. (2023) Paratransit, Built Environment, and Urban Mobility – a Responsive Relationship. LET IT GROW, LET US PLAN, LET IT GROW. Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Resilient Smart Green and Blue Cities. Proceedings of REAL CORP 2023, 28th International Conference on Urban Development, Regional Planning and Information Society. pp. 603-611. ISSN 2521-3938

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Abstract

Transit and mobility in developing countries are crucial issues, achieving appropriate mobility in residential neighbourhoods can be a huge challenge; due to the complex urban structure of the built environment and the prevalence of paratransit service that evolved to fill the formal public transportation system gap. This paper tries to answer the dilemma of the chaos and informality in local urban mobility inside residential neighbourhoods in Egypt through a systematic review that analyzes paratransit service in Egypt, discusses its role in supporting local urban mobility, and analyzes its relationship to the built environment in the local urban context regarding land use, accessibility, and socio-economic conditions. To conduct this study, a comparison is made between paratransit services in Egypt and in some Asian countries that depend on paratransit as an official system that has its laws and guidelines and operates in an integrated manner with public transit. Also, a residential neighbourhood that depends mainly on paratransit in local mobility was selected in Alexandria, Egypt, and several components were assessed through the neighbourhood including service characteristics, pattern of movement, stops, congestion zones, regulations, safety … etc. The results of the study highlight the deficiencies in Egyptian laws and regulations concerning the planning and design of residential streets and neighbourhoods to accommodate paratransit service. and recommend some regulations to be covered to achieve better local mobility inside residential neighbourhoods.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Urban mobility, Built environment, Paratransit, Accessibility, Mobility planning
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Depositing User:	REAL CORP Administrator
Date Deposited:	02 Oct 2023 19:40
Last Modified:	04 Oct 2023 17:46
URI:	http://repository.corp.at/id/eprint/984

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