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22 August 2023

DT4A at Land & Carbon Lab 2023 Summit

DT4A’s booth at the data and research marketplace  Organized by WRI, Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative and Bezos Earth Fund, the Land and Carbon Lab’s […]
26 July 2023

Electrifying South Africa’s Minibus Taxi Industry: A Data-Driven Approach

Minibus taxis, pictured above waiting at Bergzicht taxi rank, are the only functioning public transport system in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Photo: GoMetro The minibus taxi (MBT) industry is the […]
10 April 2023

Transforming Bus Fleet Management: An Interview with Kidus Adugna of Sheger Mass Transport Service Enterprise – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

DT4A: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your journey and what led to your current position working as a maintenance technician/system […]
6 March 2023

Why Africa Can’t Ban Its Way Out of Used Vehicle Socio-Environmental Harms: A View From Ghana

*Photo Source: https://allafrica.com/stories/202302210004.html   The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority estimates that used vehicles constitute some 80% of the about 100,000 vehicles imported into […]
6 October 2022

Public Transport Challenges in Africa: Mapping and Transit Data as a Remedy

Commuters waiting for the next bus desperately around Meskel Square – the city centre of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo by Agraw Ali   Long queues for […]
5 August 2022

How Are New Informal Transit Routes Formed?

Route signs waiting to be placed on a vehicle in Kampala Old Taxi Park. Photo by Tamara Kerzhner   In 2015, the chairman of a Kampala […]
1 June 2022

Setting Up Data Collection Projects to Meet Passenger Capabilities

“If you want to plan for all the facts, you’ll never end up going anywhere” In Cape Town, South Africa, as in many African cities, planning […]
17 May 2022

WatriFeed: The Open Source Collaborative GTFS Data Editor

« Create, update and visualize your GTFS datasets easily and collaboratively with WatriFeed »   GTFS Standard   The standardization of transport data in Africa and particularly in […]
19 February 2022

DIGITAL DATA AND TOOLS FOR TRANSPORT RESEARCH: A SHORT INTRODUCTORY COURSE

COURSE SUMMARY The rise of GPS-enabled cell phones and low-cost sensors- has led to the creation of new forms of digital data that are invaluable for […]