ABSTRACT
The actual results of these modelling procedures and their assumptions in the developing world have been widely disappointing. Used as supposedly neutral techniques, they have served as instruments of power for technocrats working mostly within weakly democratized environments. Resources have been abundantly used to create large transportation infrastructures with poor results, often supporting automobile use by a minority while neglecting the transportation needs of the majority. Local transportation technologies and all kinds of non-motorized transportation means have been permanently neglected or rejected (Banjo and Dimitriou, 1990).
