An introduction to informal (popular) transport and its important role in cities in the Global South

Data Collection Efforts in Shared Mobility and Informal Transportation
As part of its newly-launched Informal and Shared Mobility in Low and Middle-Income Countries program, the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) commissioned Agile City Partners (ACP) to conduct a rapid scan of mobility data collection efforts in informal transportation and shared mobility around the world. In this session, ACP presents an overview of their findings, including the key initiatives, projects, or platforms currently in place to collect data. What is important to know about informal transportation, and how might we improve data in this sector?

Digitalizing Informal Transport in the Global South
Our colleague Andrea San Gil León was the lead panelist at Trufi Association’s recent webinar on Digitalizing Informal Transport in the Global South.

The webinar presented how to generate digital tools that enable the mapping of every type of transport network – including informal transport – and tap the power of local communities. Also addressed are the benefits of digitizing Public Transport networks and providing the citizens with a reliable Trip Planner app in the Global South.

International Transport Forum 2022

Planning and decision-making need to be more inclusive, says Agile City Partners Co-Founder Andrea SAN GIL LEON at #ITF22

Informal transport in the global south, providing the majority of transport in some cases, is usually provided by individuals. They are facing the digitalisation gap which is creating vacuums.

International Mobility Data Summit

GNPT Chair, Benjie de la Peña, was a virtual panelist at the International Mobility Data Summit in Montreal (June 2022). He presented framing remarks for the panel on “Digital Transport for the World: GTFS and Informal Transportation.”

In his framing remarks, he posed three questions technologists should seriously consider as they work on digitizing mobility data from informal transportation: Whose goals? Whose good? Whose problem?