WhereIsMyTransport and Data-Pop Alliance have published a groundbreaking new report [es] looking at how women use public transport, the obstacles they face, and their perceptions of mobility in Mexico City and Lima. We spoke with project leads Daniela Flores from WhereIsMyTransport and Ivette Yanez and Yara Antoniassi from Data-Pop Alliance…

You would be forgiven for thinking that Dar es Salaam was Tanzania’s capital. In fact, Dodoma has been the country’s capital since 1974, when power was transferred from Dar es Salaam in the highlands of Tanzania. That didn’t slow Dar es Salaam down though — it ranks as Africa’s fifth…

Rumbo is WhereIsMyTransport’s public transport app, and the only app in Mexico City, Lima, and Bangkok that includes every public transport route. We spoke with Jug Vajarodaya and Jorge Lara — our Growth Leads for Southeast Asia and Latin America — about how Rumbo is creating opportunity by helping people…

Did you know that women make up the majority of public transport users? Despite this, public transport policies rarely take the experience of women into account. At WhereIsMyTransport, we believe that this is partly down to a gender data gap. Working with the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI), we conducted…

WhereIsMyTransport is working with ride-hailing app Easy Matatu to produce and share Real-Time Alerts in Kampala, Uganda. Real-Time Alerts for incidents and disruptions on road networks benefit road users, businesses, and anyone looking to adapt to changing conditions. We spoke with project leads Michelle Wandia and Otis Donald about this…

What began as a 19th-century gold mining community is now South Africa’s largest city and home to Africa’s biggest airport. Johannesburg is in the Gauteng province in the north of the country, close to Pretoria and on the edge of the world’s largest known gold deposit. Gauteng might be the…

Bangkok, referred to by locals as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon, is home to around 14 million people, and 3.5 million of them rely on public transport to get where they need to go. It’s a tropical metropolis, an amalgam of traditional temples and lofty skyscrapers, and MasterCard’s Global Destinations Cities…

Port city and seat of South Africa’s Parliament, Cape Town sits beneath the imposing Table Mountain on South Africa’s western coast. An important trading post, Cape Town was founded in the mid 17th-century by the Dutch East India Company as an outpost settlement to supply fresh fruits and vegetables to…

The capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina lies in a valley surrounded by the rugged Dinaric Alps, the most prominent mountain the 1,627 m Mount Trebević in the southeast. The city emerged in the eastern end of the Sarajevo valley and, over time, expanded in a westerly direction — its growth…