Archives: Assignments

We’re excited to have you on board. You are part of a team of online vokunteers in collaboration with UNV and UN-Habitat. We will guide you through the process with an online platform that will open shortly: https://learn.living-lab.center/courses/unv-online-volunteers/  

 

We would like to work with you to co-create practical solutions for lowcarbon, peoplecentered mobility in some of our partner cities, such as, Addis Abeba, Lagos, Lviv, Amman, Merida, Curitiba, Cape Town, Kigali, Buenos Aires, Quito, Dar es Salam, Kisumu, Davao, Kochi.  

 

As your first miniassignment, please pick one of these cities and a thematic area below, skim 2–3 resources, and send us a 1page brief or 5slide deck that: 

1. names a promising case (city and topic area), 

1. explains your research interest in this context, and 

1. suggests what you’d like to explore (e.g., a quick analysis, concept sketch, data snapshot, or outreach plan). 

 

 

Starter Reading Pack (choose one thematic area) 

 

1. A) Digital access & integration (ACCESS)

• ACCESS overview (why digitalization can accelerate “avoid–shift–improve” strategies in Latin America) 

 

1. B) Light electric vehicles & living labs (GIANTS)

• GIANTS project (frugal, adaptable small evehicles; replication across regions).   

 

1. C) Electric Bus Rapid Transit (eBRT2030)

• eBRT2030 (nextgen eBRT).   

 

1. D) Integrated climate–development actions (TRANSCEND)

• Transformative Actions for Climate and Ecological Protection and Development.   

 

1. E) Ports, corridors & urban mobility (PORTZA – Dar es Salaam)

• E-Mobility – the transition to low-carbon transport systems for a sustainable and eco-friendly future.   

 

ULLC livinglab context 

• Living Lab overview & case entry points  

 

Pick a thematic area and city 

Format: 1page brief or 5 slides. 

Do also consider a focus on the transfer of solutions from one place to another and weakve in your background and experience in this brief.  

Write an essay with 800 words on public transportation.

Write an essay with 800 words about public transportation.

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Now that you have an understanding of what paratransit is, produce an essay of 800 words on the following with your views of local strategies for e-paratransit:

• If you live in a city where there are no paratransit services, elaborate a development and implementation strategy for e-paratransit based in the city of your choice, with the goal to foster a hollistic approach on e-mobility and to integrate paratransit into the urban mobility system.
• If you live in a city where paratransit services do exist, explain if there are incentives or strategies to develop e-mobility services.

Resources​

• Hull C., Giliomee, J.H., Collett K. A. McCulloch M., & Booysen M.J. (2023). Using High Resolution Gps Data to Plan the Electrification of Paratransit: A Case Study in South Africa. https://ssrn.com/abstract=4149228, or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4149228
  

• Booysen, M. J., Abraham, C. J., Rix, A. J., & Giliomee, J. H. (2022). Electrification of minibus taxis in the shadow of load shedding and energy scarcity. South African Journal of Science, 118(7/8) https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2022/13389​ 

There are many forms of public transportation in Africa but the public transit is not widely used. Write an essay of 800 words max elaboratinng why African regions need to embrace public transportation.

Take some time to read the following paper. Try to summarise the paper in your own words and write a short commentary of about 400 words, reflecting on what you have learnt so far.

Motorcycle taxis in transition? Review of digitalization and electrification trends in selected East African capital cities

Note: You may wish to do this assignment after viewing and going through the additional videos section and the additional reading material for this week.