Transport and Mobilities: Meeting the Needs of Vulnerable Population in Developing Cities

拟议的网络从弱势公民的角度对发展中城市的全球交通挑战进行了新颖而雄心勃勃的重新思考，他们在街头的需求往往被忽视。这一“运输和机动化网络”的主要目的是在全球南部四个城市：加纳开普敦海岸、孟加拉国达卡、尼日利亚拉各斯和乌干达坎帕拉，在设计和提供社会包容性运输系统方面，在学者、政策制定者、项目资助者和实践者之间建立跨学科和跨部门合作的能力。特别是，该网络将引起学术界和政策界对交通运输在帮助解决个人更好的机动性、减少不平等和创造经济增长方面的关键作用的关注。因此，该网络的重点是发展中城市，特别是城市社区中最脆弱的成员、城市穷人，特别是妇女、青年、老年人和残疾人所面临的严峻挑战。到目前为止，社会政策往往忽视了与低发达国家和中低收入国家迅速扩张的城市的交通系统有关的严重问题。因此，弱势群体无法进入市场、就业和其他商品和服务对生计的严重和日益严重的威胁在很大程度上仍未在其城市和社会发展政策中得到解决。同样，交通或卫生规划基本上没有保护公民免受与交通有关的污染造成的危及生命的程度的负面健康影响、道路交通事故造成的死亡和伤亡增加以及整个社区不受重大新交通项目的影响。通过包括研讨会和论坛在内的网络活动，这一网络计划将有助于将在英国国内从事这一主题多年的知名学者与上述四个城市的学术同行和关键政策利益攸关方聚集在一起。合作伙伴将共同努力，收集关于这些国家弱势群体的运输和流动需求的证据，并共同制定必要的方法和政策工具，以满足每个案例研究的具体地理背景下的需求。该网络活动的主要目的将是借鉴全球北方和南方国家的经验教训，这些国家已经在推动政策，以解决低收入和弱势人口的运输需求和关切，并探讨这些政策对运输和社会政策轨迹不太先进的国家的适用性和适应性。

The proposed network offers a novel and ambitious rethinking of global transport challenges of developing cities from the perspectives of vulnerable citizens, whose needs at the street-level are often overlooked. The primary aim of this 'Transport and Mobilities Network' is to build capacity for interdisciplinary and cross-sector collaborations between academics, policymakers, project funders and practitioners in the design and delivery of socially inclusive transport systems in four cities in the Global South: Cape Coast, Ghana; Dhaka, Bangladesh, Lagos, Nigeria and Kampala, Uganda. In particular, the network will draw academic and policy attention to the crucial role of transport can play in helping to address better personal mobility, reducing inequalities and create economic growth. and personal mobility The focus of the network is therefore on in developing cities in particular the severe plight of the challenges facing the most highly vulnerable members of the city communities, the urban poor, and especially women, young, elderly and disabled people. Until now, social policy has tended to overlook the severe problems that are associated with the transport system in the rapidly expanding cities of Low Developed Countries (LDCs) and Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). As such, the severe and increasing threat to livelihoods of the inaccessibility of vulnerable populations to markets, employment and other goods and services remains largely unaddressed within their urban and social development policies. Equally, the need to protect citizens from negative health effects of life-threatening levels of exposure to traffic-related pollutions, increased deaths and casualties from road traffic accidents and whole communities from severance by major new transport projects remains largely absent from transport or health planning. Network activities, including workshops and forums, This networking programme will serve to bring together highly recognised academics who have been working on this topic for many years within the UK with their academic counterparts and key policy stakeholder in the four aforementioned cities. The partners will work collectively to draw together the evidence on the transport and mobility needs of vulnerable populations groups in these countries and to coproduce the methodologies and policy tools that are needed to address their needs in the specific geographical contexts of each case study. The main contribution of the network activities aim will be to draw lessons from countries in the Global North and South that are already promoting policies to address the transport needs and concerns of low income and vulnerable populations, and to explore their applicability and adaptability for countries with less advanced transport and social policy trajectories.