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Performance indicators
This table compares selected performance indicators for the cities The city problems. This table summarizes each of the city studies, identifying each problem issue and giving a reference to it in the source document, together with a summary of the diagnosed source of the problems, the actions already taken to confront it and the further reforms proposed to address it.

Table 1 The performance indicators

Indicator/ measure

 

Bogota (2003/4)

Recife

Santiago

Sri Lanka

Accra

Addis Ababa

Bangkok (2004)

Hanoi (2004)

Dakar

City population (million)

5.237

3.4

5.49

19.6
country

3.0
est

2.57

12.0

3.5

2.45

National annual ave per capita income ($ PPP)[1]

6,600

8,100

10700

4,000

2,300

800

8,100

2,700

1,700

City annual ave per capita income ($ PPP)

8,800

 

 

4,000
country

 

2,000

17,000

6,500

 

Private car/Mc per capita

 

0.13

 

 

 

 

0.34

0.6

0.017

% of low incomes spent on public transport

11.53

6.0
(vt)[2]

16.2

5.0

10-16

5-17

12.4
(ave)

2-9

4.3

Ave bus trips/person/day

0.9

0.5

0.77

 

0.6

0.65

 

0.22

0.45

Ave trip length (kms)

10.0

 

 

17.4

6.5

7.2 bus
5.5 mini

10-18

 

 

Ave peak trip time (min)

 

 

30.0

 

32

25 bus

68

 

 

Public transport share(%)

 

55.0

51.8

 

.>90

>90

40.6

5.0

85.7

Average basic fare ($)

0.45
flat

0.6

0.55 flat

0.14
ave trip

.025 /km

.0053
/km

0.10
ave

0.16
flat

0.20
ave

Buses per 000 population

3.6

0.55 big
2.5 total

1.7

1.2

2.4
trotro

3.0
inc mini

1.3

0.2

1-1.7
ex taxi

Public sector share (%)

0

0

0

25

3-5

37

23

100

5

Average age (minibus)

6.5

 

n.a.

n.a

15.0

15.0

15

n.a

16

Average age (large bus)

17.0

4.8

7.0

14.0

2.0

9.0

5-10

2.0

 

Kms per minibus per day

200

 

n.a

n.a

125

130

 

n.a.

200

Kms per normal bus/day

160

280

300

189

150?

176

221

 

200-230

Kms per articulated bus/day

300

n.a.

n.a

n.a

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

Passengers per minibus per day

191

 

n.a.

n.a

265

132-312

 

n.a

 

Passengers per normal bus per day

300[3]

420

552

 

 

1335

550

 

440

Passengers per articulated bus per day

1566[4]

 

n.a.

n.a

n.a

n.a.

822

n.a.

 

Average route length (kms)

29.48

 

60.0

 

6.5

 

29.9

 

 




[1] The GDP figures given here are all at purchasing power parity, taken from the same source. The estimates based on curtrent exchange rates, contained in the city reportrs are generally considerably lower. — Return

[2] Result of the application of the val transporte — Return

[3] Average of several categories — Return

[4] Articulated buses operating on segregated busways — Return