THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ON ADJACENT COMMUNITIES: THE CASE OF EAST-WEST ROUTE OF THE ADDIS ABABA LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT
| dc.contributor.advisor | Professor Mintesnot G. Woldeamanuel (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tadesse, GEBEYEW | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-02T08:27:02Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-08T11:26:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-09-02T08:27:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-08T11:26:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-06 | |
| dc.description | A thesis submitted to the school of graduate studies of the Addis AbabaUniversity,Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development(EiABC), in partial fulfilment for master’s degree in Urban Planning. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit system is the first modern mass transit system for Ethiopia as well as for Sub Saharan Africa. Although, the Addis Ababa LRT lines/ stations thought to bring either positive or negative or both social-economic impacts on the adjacent communities, after it has been launched there was/were no research done focusing on the socio-economic impacts the LRT on the adjacent community. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess the socio-economic impacts of the light rail transit line/stations on the community.To conduct the research, about six LRT stations along the East-West LRT line from Coca-Cola to Ayat were selected by bypassing 3 LRT stations to embrace the Coca-Cola LRT station which is service dominate area, Megenagna the active commercial area and Ayat the residential dominate area since the study focus on the adjacent residential, commercial and social services. Then, random data collection methods were used to collect the data from the communityaround each LRT stations. Questionnaire surveys, interview and observations methods were used to collect data. There were 720 respondents for the questionnaires and 20 people for an interview to consolidate the quantitative data. Then, the descriptive statistics and spatial analysis methods were administered for data analysis. Using the above approaches, the social and economic impact of the LRT on community in residential, commercial and social service were analyzed.As the result of this, the social and economic impact of the LRT on adjacent community in residential, commercial and social service were analyzed separately using the social and economic impact indicators of the LRT. The community living in the residential areas uses the LRT the most for their trip purpose than the rest of the other adjacent land uses, while followed by the community in the social service, and the least percentage of the adjacent community were those in social services. The LRT has brought both positive and negative socio-economic impacts on the adjacent communities having varied frequency of responses from family to family as well as from station to station. The positive impacts of the LRT for the adjacent community were the transport cost reduction, travel time reduction, increasing volume of retailers around the LRT stations, increasing the volume of the renters in the communities, means of transportations for the community and etc. In contrast to this, the negative impacts of the LRT were segregation of the adjacent communities around the LRT, reduction of the customers from some business activities, long walking distance to access the opposite side of the LRT, inconvenience of the stations for elders and those in need, problems of turning around the car when driving and etc. Eventually the mitigation methods of the negative effects of the LRT on community has been recommended as: the socio-economic impact of the light rail transit on the existing community should be studied in detail before the implementation; the light rail transit should be built underground or on the existing level of the public street to reduce the socio-economic disturbance of the adjacent community; the LRT station distances and facilities should be considered the elders and those in need and the spacing between the distance of the pedestrian cross should be also considered to minimize the negative impact of the LRT on social interaction of the adjacent communities living in the opposite side of the LRT. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/18933 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | EiABC | en_US |
| dc.subject | Adjacent community. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Light Rail Transit (LRT) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Socio-economic impact | en_US |
| dc.title | THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ON ADJACENT COMMUNITIES: THE CASE OF EAST-WEST ROUTE OF THE ADDIS ABABA LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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