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From a fishing town of less than half a million inhabitants in 1947, Karachi has grown into a thriving metropolis of 6 million. The average annual growth rate of 6 per cent since the early 1960s has resulted in increasing problems in city services, particularly passenger transport. This chapter identifies some of the major problems besetting Karachi’s transport system and, based on an analysis of household data, suggests some remedies to ease the situation.
Mateen Thobani is currently an economist at the World Bank. This chapter is a condensed version of his Ph.D. thesis at Yale University. He would like to thank his advisers, John Quigley and T. N. Srinivasan, for their help and guidance.
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See Esesjay Consult Limited, Analysis of Existing Profile of Sind Road Transportation Corporation and a Short-term Augmentation of Facilities and Fleet Project (Karachi, 1975).
See Master Plan for Karachi Metropolitan Region, Final Report on Transportation (Karachi, 1975; doc. MP-RR/94).
See M. Fertal, E. Weiner, A. Balik and A. Sein, Modal Split (Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of Public Roads, 1966) for description of the conventional approaches to modelling urban modal split.
P. Stopher, Value of Travel Time, Transportation Research Record, no. 587 (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, Transportation Research Board, 1977).
T. J. Adler and M. Ben Akiva, Joint-choice Model for Frequency, Destination, and Travel Mode for Shopping Trips, Transportation Research Record, no. 569 (Washington, D.C.: Transportation Research Board, 1976).
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T. Domencich and D. McFadden, Urban Travel Demand: A Behavioural Analysis (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1975);
D. McFadden, Modelling the Choice of Residential Location, Cowles Discussion Paper, no. 477 (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University, 1977).
M. Thobani, ‘Passenger Transport in Karachi: A Nested Logit Model’, Ph.D. thesis (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University, 1981).
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Thobani, M. (1984). Passenger Transport in Karachi. In: van Ginneken, W., Baron, C. (eds) Appropriate Products, Employment and Technology. ILO Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06824-1_9
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