Current rates of urbanization in Sub-Saharan African cities place considerable pressures on the public infrastructures that serve their growing populations. More particularly with respect to the focus of this chapter, they give rise to problems associated with providing access, as transport system capacities have seldom, if ever, increased at the same rate as travel demand. The majority of people who live in cities do not have the resources to own private motor vehicles, and consequently public transport services assume great importance in ...