ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the potential for creating the necessary conditions for the type of decision-making process that can lead to the successful deployment and operation of good urban transport in cities in developing countries. Progress on creating good urban transport will encourage improvement in governance, and improvements in governance will lead to further improvements in urban transport. The ways in which urban transportation is subsidized are as important in determining its impact on urban life as the physical characteristics of a system. From the vantage point of the Global North, workable arrangements in the delivery of urban transport are typically viewed in terms of either publicly supplied or at least publicly contracted transport services. In Nairobi, several actors must be brought into the process of developing the organizational forms that will be needed if a viable and efficient system of urban public transport is to emerge.
