ABSTRACT
Southeast Asia is a region of remarkable contrasts in urban transport: an interesting laboratory of urban transport practice (and perhaps malpractice). There are wide variations from city to city in the mode of transport that predominates. For example, public transport is very important in large Philippine cities, while the private car has become the primary mode in Malaysian cities and Vietnam’s urban areas have for decades been dominated by two-wheel transport – formerly by bicycles and recently by motorcycles. The region also has a colourful array of unusual transport modes, including pedicabs with almost as many names and designs as there are countries, bicycle taxis, motorcycle taxis, a number of variations on the jitney, a type of small bus (including Manila’s jeepneys), and Jakarta’s mikrolet.
