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Jan 26

Q&A: Chris Marais and Frida Mjaria on Artificial Intelligence and real-time public transport data in emerging markets

WhereIsMyTransport’s Real-Time Alerts for incidents and disruptions reduce uncertainty, benefiting anyone living and working in emerging markets — including people using our public transport app Rumbo. We spoke with Chris Marais, Machine Learning Engineer, and Frida Mjaria, Software Engineer, about how Artificial Intelligence could transform real-time public transport data production…

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Q&A: Chris Marais and Frida Mjaria on Artificial Intelligence and real-time public transport data…
Q&A: Chris Marais and Frida Mjaria on Artificial Intelligence and real-time public transport data…

6 min read


Jan 4

Q&A: Daniela Flores, Ivette Yanez, and Yara Antoniassi on women’s public transport experiences in Mexico City and Lima

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…

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Q&A: Daniela Flores, Ivette Yanez, and Yara Antoniassi on women’s public transport experiences in…
Q&A: Daniela Flores, Ivette Yanez, and Yara Antoniassi on women’s public transport experiences in…

9 min read


Dec 12, 2022

Photo essay: Meeting the mobility needs of Dar es Salaam—an almost megacity

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…

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Photo essay: Meeting the mobility needs of Dar es Salaam—an almost megacity
Photo essay: Meeting the mobility needs of Dar es Salaam—an almost megacity

6 min read


Dec 5, 2022

Q&A: Jug Vajarodaya and Jorge Lara on mobility and growth opportunities in Southeast Asia and Latin America

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…

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Q&A: Jug Vajarodaya and Jorge Lara on mobility and growth opportunities in Southeast Asia and Latin…
Q&A: Jug Vajarodaya and Jorge Lara on mobility and growth opportunities in Southeast Asia and Latin…

8 min read


Nov 30, 2022

Completing Africa’s first systemic gender-sensitive data collection project with the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative

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…

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Completing Africa’s first systemic gender-sensitive data collection project with the Transformative…
Completing Africa’s first systemic gender-sensitive data collection project with the Transformative…

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Oct 31, 2022

Q&A: Michelle Wandia and Otis Donald on producing Real-Time Alerts in Kampala, Uganda

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…

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Q&A: Michelle Wandia and Otis Donald on producing Real-Time Alerts in Kampala, Uganda
Q&A: Michelle Wandia and Otis Donald on producing Real-Time Alerts in Kampala, Uganda

7 min read


Oct 24, 2022

Photo essay: Rapid urbanisation and public transport in Johannesburg

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…

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Photo essay: Rapid urbanisation and public transport in Johannesburg
Photo essay: Rapid urbanisation and public transport in Johannesburg

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Oct 6, 2022

Photo essay: How do people use public transport to get around Bangkok?

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…

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Photo essay: How do local people use public transport to get around Bangkok?
Photo essay: How do local people use public transport to get around Bangkok?

7 min read


Sep 21, 2022

Photo essay: Improving access to public transport in Cape Town

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…

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Photo essay: Improving access to public transport in Cape Town
Photo essay: Improving access to public transport in Cape Town

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Sep 5, 2022

Photo essay: Making public transport tempting in car-heavy Sarajevo

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…

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Photo essay: Making public transport tempting in car-heavy Sarajevo
Photo essay: Making public transport tempting in car-heavy Sarajevo

4 min read

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