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Estimating excess motorised private and public commuting and scholar travel in Dar es salaam
(University of Dar es Salaam, 2013) Zengo, Emil Silas Daniel
Excess travel concept is well known in the developed countries and has widely been studied to explain the effect of home and work places arrangement on travel distances; few studies have been made in the developing countries. This study benchmarks the private and public motorized excess commuting and scholarly travel in the developing countries, Dar es Salaam city the case study, exploring the travel pattern and travel effect of existing and projected land use on travel efficiency for commuting and school trips. The study involved the excess commuting framework to evaluate excess travel at two time periods of land use (2007 and 2030). The results suggest that, the public transport users travel longer distances for home to work and home to school trips than private transport users. Moreover, the forecasted land use scenario (strategic corridor development) encourages travel pattern that increases the average travel distance. If we are to address the increasing average travel distances for commuting and scholar travel, we must extend our transportation policy to address excess travel issue for our cities.