ABSTRACT
Of all urban issues associated with Third World city development, traffic and transport problems are high on the agenda of indigenous governments. The growing realisation that urban movement problems are intricately tied up with other development factors such as rapid population increases, urban sprawl and resource constraints, has led over the last three decades or so, to a wave of city-wide transport planning studies in the Third World. The studies have often been based on the implicit preconception that they could ‘solve’ urban movement problems, the aim of politician, technocrat and layman alike, being to rid their city of traffic congestion.
