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Title:

Access from the Periphery: Transport Strategies of the Urban Poor in Colombia

Accession Number:

01515811

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

In a context of limited purchasing power, spatially concentrated income-earning opportunities and other urban functions, accessibility to means of connectivity can be a determining factor in overcoming poverty for residents in physically marginal areas. Using the case study of Soacha, a municipality adjacent to Bogotá (Colombia’s capital city), this paper explores the generation travel strategies in a context of uneven provision of material infrastructures and services for transport. Through the analysis of qualitative data from semi-structured interviews and existing statistics from the latest Origin-Destination survey, the research identifies central elements in the development of strategies involving formal and informal mechanisms of transport in order to secure access to opportunities. Residents from peripheral settlements in conditions of poverty take advantage of the flexibility of informal alternatives of transport, increasing their influence in space and filling gaps in a fragmented set of formal networks. Information obtained from users of informal alternatives and mechanisms for access suggest better conditions than users of purely formal transport modes in the same areas. Travel patterns and preferences identified contribute to build a better-informed analysis of the role of flexibility and affordability in transport policy development for poor peripheral populations in similar regions and contexts.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE90 Transportation in the Developing Countries.

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-4147

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Hernández, Daniel Oviedo

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Photos; References

Geographic Terms:

Colombia

Subject Areas:

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

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-4147

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 3:26PM