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Contents:
• Mobility for non-motorized transport
• Uber/Careem – good or bad?
• Mobility for differently abled people Prepared by
Abyan Amir
Arijah Siddiqui
Ahmad Zaid
Farid Ahmed
Karachi’s Transport System
BUS TRIPS
Seat-Passenger ratio
1:45
OTHER TRIPS
20%
of the total
24.2 million
trips taken
daily within
Karachi
PEDESTRIAN TRIPS
20%
of the total
24.2 million
trips taken
daily within
Karachi
MAJOR PROBLEMS
Challenges:
1. The contemporary public transport system has no provisions for differently abled citizens and this is in direct contradiction to one of
the core princiiples of sustainable urban moblity that is inclusivity and providing access to every segment of society.
Why do we need Non-Motorized Transport?
Flexible
Transport
Improve
Environment
friendly
public
health
Accessible
in most-
Affordable
needed
areas
Challenges
Social
Implications/Gender/Class
Vulnerable
No safety protocols
No NMT-user friendly
pathways
No proper management
system
Challenges
Causes of Implications
Sprawling in Karachi
Social discrimination
Boondoggle
Implications
Is Uber/Careem good or bad?
Is Uber/Careem good or bad?
GOOD BAD
A good privately More cheap
owned initiative options are
available
Counters Karachi’s
public transport More load on
system infrastructure
1 bus can
carry 35
GOOD BAD people,
nearly 10
careem/uber
More cheap cars will be
A good privately required to
owned initiative options are carry 35
Counters Karachi’s available people
public transport More load on
system infrastructure 1 qhinqi can
carry 6
Comfort/Luxury/ Not fuel efficient people,
nearly 2
Defined safety Adds up to traffic careem/uber
protocols congestion cars will be
required to
carry 6
people
In brief, what do we need?
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