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The increased density and sprawl of
Cairo's urban areas are the consequence of a number of
factors, of which the major ones are the physical and
geographic features, transport supply, urban policy and the
control of urban development, market laws, government aid,
property developers, consumer sensitivity to building
quality and costs, travelling distances, tariffs, the
immediate surrounding area, etc. The purpose of this study
is to measure the impact of a transport policy on the
accessibility and development of the Cairo urban area.
Cairo's transport policy has encouraged tremendous
development of major road infrastructures, partial
liberalization of the surface public transport network
resulting in a considerable expansion of private microbus
lines, and an extension of the bus network at the expense of
the density of supply and of regularity, and without
creating segregated lanes as recommended in successive
transport and urban studies, amongst other significant
developments. This report explores the influence of
transport on the development of urban areas, and the
consequences of such developments.
