How community-generated open data is helping Mexican cities
At Smart City Expo LATAM 2025, our Leonardo Gutierrez shared community mapping makes informal public transport visible and reliable
video: MapaData
#Mexico #Oaxaca #Toluca #SalinaCruz #Zamora #PuertoEscondido #informaltransport #populartransport #mapping #OpenStreetMap #HOTOSM #TrufiAssociation
Dakar’s urban mobility plan recognizes what many others ignore: informal transport is already moving the city and deserving of investment.
via xitter @senenews
#Africa #Senegal #Dakar #cityplanning #urbanplanning #inclusiveplanning #WorldBank #SDG11 #informaltransport #populartransport #publictransit #publictransport #TransportationJustice #TrufiAssociation
Our project in Toluca and Oaxaca—with Codeando México, and HOT. Community-led mapping can transform informal networks into structured, data-informed systems.
via GIZ Mexico
xitter @mapeadora @SmartCityLATAM @hotosm @CodeandoMexico
#Mexico #Oaxaca #Toluca #SalinaCruz #informaltransport #populartransport #mapping #GIS #GeospatialData #OpenStreetMap #HOTOSM #publictransit #publictransport #TransportationJustice #TrufiAssociation
UITP 2025 is where the future or transport is shaped. Trufi will be there to share expertise, build new partnerships, and elevate informal mobility as central to sustainable transport.
https://www.trufi-association.org/trufi-at-uitp-2025-lets-talk-about-transport-innovation-for-all/
#UITPSummit #Germany #Hamburg #informaltransport #populartransport #opendata #SharedMobility #SustainableMobility #TransportationJustice #SmartMobility #UrbanMobility #MobilitySolutions #FutureOfTransport #sustainabletransport #TrufiAssociation
An informal transport payment platform that uses WhatsApp as a front end
The solution meets people where they already are - in chat platforms and informal vehicles.
Via xitter @CapeTalk
#Africa #SouthAfrica #informaltransport #populartransport #innovation #TransportationJustice #WhatsApp #TrufiAssociation
The article gets it right: Informal systems become transformative when cities listen.
"The Global South must lead with its own playbook."
via xitter @htTweets
#cityplanning #inclusiveplanning #SDG11 #DecolonizeTransport #InclusiveResearch #informaltransport #populartransport #research #TransportationColonialism #TransportationJustice #TrufiAssociation #India #Brazil #SouthAfrica #Singapore #Indonesia #Thailand #Mexico #Vietnam #Kenya #Colombia #Rwanda
Nairobi’s floods show the cost of sidelining matatus and boda bodas from infrastructure decisions.
via @TheStarKenya @ITF_Forum @OECD
#ITF25 #Africa #Kenya #Nairobi #cityplanning #urbanplanning #SDG11 #Climate #climatechange #ClimateJustice #informaltransport #populartransport #TrufiAssociation
70% of urban trips in the Global South rely on informal transport. Why do climate plans ignore them? Required viewing!
#ITF25 #cityplanning #urbanplanning #SDG11 #Climate #climatechange #ClimateJustice #informaltransport #populartransport #opendata #research #SharedMobility #SustainableMobility #TransportationJustice #India #Kenya #Brazil #Ghana #SouthAfrica #Mexico #Thailand #CostaRica #Colombia #Peru #Chile #Nigeria #Ethiopia #Rwanda #Indonesia #TrufiAssociation
Jacqueline Klopp (The Earth Institute)
#ITF25 #cityplanning #urbanplanning #SDG11 #Climate #climatechange #ClimateJustice #informaltransport #populartransport #opendata #research #SharedMobility #SustainableMobility #TransportationJustice #India #Kenya #Brazil #Ghana #SouthAfrica #Mexico #Thailand #CostaRica #Colombia #Peru #Chile #Nigeria #Ethiopia #Rwanda #Indonesia #TrufiAssociation
Jakarta's governor to civil servants: Use shared mobility, or no upward mobility
via xitter @staronline
#Asia #Indonesia #Jakarta #informaltransport #populartransport #publictransit #TransportationJustice #Gender #TrufiAssociation
Cape Town and Accra top passenger satisfaction for informal transport, but the real takeaway is that fair labor practices lift service quality.
via xitter @uptuks
#informaltransport #populartransport #publictransit #publictransport #research #TransportationJustice #Accra #Ghana #CapeTown #SouthAfrica #Freetown #SierraLeone #Kumasi #Ghana #Maputo #Mozambique #TrufiAssociation
A push in the Philippines for a Magna Carta — a formal declaration of rights — for informal transport workers, to recognize their labor, enforce safety standards, and ensure fair working conditions.
via xitter @TheManilaTimes
https://www.manilatimes.net/2025/05/07/news/national/magna-carta-for-delivery-riders-pushed/2106850
#MagnaCarta #Philippines #informaltransport #populartransport #TransportationJustice #Gender #TrufiAssociation
Informal transport is Kampala’s mobility solution, not one its problems – as this article would have you believe. Smart planning means supporting them.
via xitter @nilepostnews
https://nilepost.co.ug/features/256281/ugandas-urban-tsunami-will-smart-planning-be-the-lifeline
#SmartPlanning #Uganda #Kampala #cityplanning #urbandesign #urbanism #urbanplanning #inclusiveplanning #SDG11 #informaltransport #populartransport #publictransit #publictransport #SharedMobility #SustainableMobility #SmartMobility #UrbanMobility #SmartMobility #TrufiAssociation
TL;DR: Like 1990s AOL, transport data today is siloed and controlled. Open data advocates (e.g. GTFS, OSM) are breaking barriers to enable access, equity, and innovation in mobility.
xitter @mobilitydataio @AFD_France
#informaltransport #populartransport #innovation #mobility #opendata #OpenStreetMap #publictransport #SharedMobility #SustainableMobility #TransportationInnovation #TrufiAssociation
An art installation in India celebrates the deep cultural and personal connections woven into public transport.
via xitter @homegrownin
#Art #India #informaltransport #populartransport #publictransit #publictransport #SharedMobility #SustainableMobility #TransportationInnovation #TrufiAssociation
Legal awareness for boda boda riders (motorcycle taxi drivers)
A step to give them the respect they deserve, and to be treated as the vital and adaptable part of public mobility that they are.
via @Edunnews1
#Bodaboda #Africa #Kenya #Nairobi #informaltransport #populartransport #TransportationJustice #TrufiAssociation
In the "Pope race" – A cardinal "known to take 'jeepneys' and public transport while priest, and eventually, bishop."
(Trufi does not endorse any religious or political figures. We do endorse getting on a bus.)
via xitter @gulf_news
Luis Antonio Tagle: Who is this Filipino Cardinal in the Pope race?
https://gulfnews.com/world/filipino-cardinal-luis-antoni-tagle-first-asian-first-chinese-pope-1.500100974
#Asia #Philippines #informaltransport #populartransport #publictransport #SharedMobility #SustainableMobility #TrufiAssociation
When informal fares are the yardstick for public transport pricing, it's clear who’s leading.
via xitter @Independentngr
#Africa #Nigeria #informaltransport #populartransport #publictransport #SharedMobility #SustainableMobility #TrufiAssociation
Your mom was once restricted to the AOL ecosystem. And today transport data is being restricted by gatekeepers. And these two things are related. There’s no stopping the demand for open data.
xitter @mobilitydataio @AFD_France
#informaltransport #populartransport #innovation #mobility #opendata #OpenStreetMap #publictransport #SharedMobility #SustainableMobility #TransportationInnovation #TrufiAssociation
Digital divides and sparse transport options plague both Global North and South. But the South has a surprising advantage: most people are not car dependent, and informal transport already serves them.
via xitter @knowablemag
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2024/increasing-access-to-shared-transportation
#ActiveMobility #ActiveTransport #cityplanning #inclusiveplanning #SDG11 #informaltransport #populartransport #publictransit #publictransport #TransportationJustice #TrufiAssociation
