The paper's main objectives are to provide a common thematic basis for urban transport inputs into the making of country-specific assistance strategies, and thereafter to guide urban transport project and sector work included in the business plans agreed under these strategies. It is a companion...

U.S. cities have invested large amounts of sums on public transit and urban rail in the last few decades, but the transit usage in most of these car-oriented cities is very low, and previous efforts to increase ridership have been mostly fruitless. This research examines the factors affecting...

Commuters with high mobility create a complex transit system that implies the various usage of TU (transit unit). Boarding into Bus Rapid Transit or alighting from High Speed Train becomes daily routine to finally arrive in working place or school. Old-fashioned fare collection of transportation...

Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales...