Urban Transport in the OIC Megacities
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Critical Urban Development Issues
The GCR is faced with two critical urban development issues:
 How to redevelop or serve the inner city areas with an extremely high population density=217
(person/ha)?
 How functionally can the growing new communities be integrated that are physically
spreading over more than 60 km distant from the metropolitan centre?
4.2.4. Mode availability and shares
Up-to-date modal share data was not made available but as shown in Figure 31 below shared taxi
represents by far the largest share of public transport trips (over half of all public transport trips) with
public bus the second largest share.
Figure 22: 2010 Public Transport trip distribution
Source: Slide 24 Prof Khaled El Araby International Symposium February 2013
As shown in Figure 32 below one of the key transport challenges is that 73% of all trips are made by
motorized vehicles of which 68% are by public transport.