Highlights Community participation has proven to be an efficient way to tackle poverty. Community participation can tackle greater transport problems at the policy level. Community transport can bring greater accessibility to poor urban neighborhoods. Unity of neighbors facilitated the intervention coming from local Government.

    Abstract Social exclusion is directly related, amongst others, to a lack of educational opportunities, transport accessibility or poor transport policies. Socialcapital can deliver a solution to reduce inequity by providing community transport (CT) to an underprivileged neighborhood. The aim of this paper is to provide a case study on how community participation has proven to be an efficient way of procuring the basic needs of a poor community, such as those involved in providing daily mobility despite the apparent lack of a clear public transport policy. Results indicate that community participation and engagement in a common need can not only provide badly needed means of transportation but also be the impetus to tackle greater transport problems at the policy level. This, as a result, led to better CT which brought about greater accessibility to poor urban neighborhoods and more hands-on government engagement even though it operated only for a short period of time mainly to facilitate the entrance of the public transportation service.


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    Title :

    Transport policy: Empowering local community for poverty alleviation in a deprived neighborhood in Colombia


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    Publication date :

    2023-05-31




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English