ABSTRACT
This book is concerned with the planning of transport in Third World cities within an overall environment of rapid change and development. The principal purpose of this chapter is twofold. First, it is to provide the reader with a Third World contextual framework for the contributions which follow. Second, it is to trace the role of urban transport in Third World cities (especially those of 500,000 inhabitants and above), in circumstances of changing ideas and expectations about urban development and the function of the transport sector.
