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By examining the potential effects that the Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit (AALRT) project may have on city-dwellers, this paper aims to assess possible approaches to inclusive transport planning in rapidly growing cities of the Global South.
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Hybrid Approach to Inclusive Planning.
AALRT Planned Routes, Stations and Phased extensions by Woreda “Administrative Units”.
Addis Ababa Existing and planned Minibus Routes.
Addis Ababa Modal Share for Public Transport.
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Bekele, Y.E. (2021). Re-thinking Transport Infrastructure Investments: The Case of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In: Nathanail, E.G., Adamos, G., Karakikes, I. (eds) Advances in Mobility-as-a-Service Systems. CSUM 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1278. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61075-3_97
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