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Government of Nepal accorded high priority to the development of transport in disadvantaged regions. However, current statistics reveal that the road sector failed to generate the promised impacts. There is an urgent need of research on understanding the characteristics of transport in disadvantaged regions in totality which could be integrated into transport planning in a sustainable way. The authors assessed the characteristics of transport that exists in the three rural settlements of Nepal through primary survey and examined the factors that contribute to the totality of transport. The study revealed that transport tasks related to meeting the basic subsistence outweighed those concerning to agriculture production and marketing. Proximity of the settlements to the highway/feeder road had little impact on overall transportation tasks of the households. Moreover, the transport burden is unduly higher on the female population. The findings can have major implications for the alteration of current transportation planning practices for disadvantaged regions.

Understanding Transport Characteristics in Disadvantaged Regions of Developing Countries: Empirical Study from Nepal: This is an alternate title. This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE90 Transportation in the Developing Countries.

01503729

14-0111

English

13p

2014

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Developing countries; Empirical methods; Mode choice; Rural transportation; Transportation planning; Travel behavior; Travel patterns

Nepal

Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-0111

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 27 2014 2:09PM