| Author | Tep Makathy |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.UE-02-11 |
| Subject(s) | Urban transportation--Cambodia
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
degree of Master of Science |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | Phnom Penh City Shuttle Experiment was known as the first bus operation effort, a
component of the Study on the Transport Master Plan of the Phnom Penh Metropolitan
Area in the Kingdom of Cambodia, during the long absent of appropriate urban transport
service in Phnom Penh. This thesis argued that the experiment was a failure in a sense that
policy designers and implementing agencies missed out to count the informal sector, both
as commuters of transport service and informal transport providers, into the picture.
However, its failure will bring the requirements of success in the future.
Despite comfort and safety, the informal sector group found themselves hard to patronize
the bus service operation due to major factors which totally brought disintegration between
them and bus service provided in such a way that bus schedule and bus routes designed
was the so-called "middle class-oriented policy" with its formality, totally miss-fitting the
trip patterns of the urban informal sector group of having involved typical impermanent
occupations, working locations and time, and even residents. From the other comer,
informal transport service has proved to be very resilient competitors to the bus service
through its operational advantage, attracting majority of urban commuters both poor and
middle class people, more importantly indicating a trend of rapid growth, generating
thousand of jobs to urban poor and rural migrants while lack of formal employment
creation. This sector is found more compatible to the poor.
Therefore, it is important to count as major consideration of informal sector in transport
planning policy not only in Phnom Penh, but also in developing country cities, and
participation of this sector will be guiding planners to capture the real demands of the
ground and planning the right things. |
| Year | 2003 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Urban Environmental and Management (UE) |
| Chairperson(s) | Sajor, Edsel |
| Examination Committee(s) | Zimmermann, Willi ;Resurreccion, Bernadette |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2003 |