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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.

You have now seen the roles in the e-mobility and have understood the needs of integrating e-mobility. Based on what you have learnt, write a short opinion piece (about 800 words) on the challenges and opportunities of implementing electric mobility. Try to relate your opinion as much as possible to the local context.