Article ID: CBB459445182

Filling the mobility gaps: The shared taxi industry in Kano, Nigeria (June 2018)

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This paper aims to analyse the growth of the taxi and shared taxi industries in Nigeria after the 1980s Structural Adjustment Programs. The reduction of public bus services and growing urbanisation fuelled the rise of (paid) car-pooling and eventually a change in the taxi regime. This new system offered an increasingly flexible shared service which (partially) met urban mobility demands. Although this system is common to many African cites, and similar to post-1989 socialist states in Europe and central Asia, focusing on the city of Kano (Nigeria) allows us to identify some of its peculiarities. Relying on secondary sources and on interviews with witnesses, this paper traces the trajectory of shared taxi services from the 1950s to today.

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Authors & Contributors
Jason Finch
Andrey Vozyanov
Dieker, Marith
Michael Ra-shon Hall
Danika Bellamy-Sankar
Lela Rekhviashvili
Concepts
Mobility
Land transportation
Taxicabs
Ridesharing
Automobiles
Technology and society
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
Europe
United States
Rangoon
Nairobi (Kenya)
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Myanmar (Burma)
Institutions
Uber
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