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The Average Age of a Taxi in Egypt is 32 Years Old
The Egyptian mass transport fleet is aging – the average age of a taxi in Egypt is 32 years old, more than 64,000 microbuses are greater than 20 years old, and nearly 70% of all registered vehicles in...
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Cairo Cash for Clunkers
Vehicle scrapping and recycling programs are not new. In fact, last year, The Economist put together a neat comparison of subsidies provided for vehicle scrapping programs across the world. What is...
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“They are sitting on a gold mine and don’t even know it….”
The other day, my colleague Roger Gorham, a transport economist working in Africa, shared with me an interesting story. He was in Lagos, meeting with stakeholders about setting up public-private...
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How should a city administration respond to the shared cab phenomenon?
Follow the authors on Twitter: @shomik_raj and @cataochoa Smartphone apps are bringing massive changes to the taxi industry in ways that urban transport has not seen in a long while. From the US to...
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