eprintid: 10181442 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/18/14/42 datestamp: 2024-02-14 11:43:21 lastmod: 2024-02-14 11:43:21 status_changed: 2024-02-14 11:43:21 type: working_paper metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Oviedo, Daniel creators_name: San Gil, Andrea creators_name: Sabogal-Cardona, Orlando creators_name: Scholl, Lynn title: Microtransit in Latin America and the Caribbean: Governance, operations, and regulation for socially inclusive and sustainable urban mobility ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C04 divisions: F32 keywords: Microtransit, social impacts, sustainability, stakeholder perspectives, Latin America note: This is an Open Access paper published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Intergovernmental Organization Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/). abstract: This document provides an overview of the current landscape of app-based collective transportation in Latin America and the Caribbean from the perspective of its contributions to social inclusion and environmental sustainability. The research builds on a review of the recent academic literature and a review of available secondary evidence from technical reports and policy documents. The analysis of secondary evidence is expanded upon through primary evidence from a stakeholder survey and semi-structured interviews with a select group of stakeholders in the transportation sector in the region. The manuscript shows the current situation in what remains an emerging industry in Latin America and the Caribbean, spanning from the terminology used by practitioners in different sectors to refer to app-based collective transportation, such as vanpooling, microtransit or micro transport, to the overview of different business approaches and regulatory responses in various contexts. The paper finalizes by presenting an evidence-based reflection of the prospects and expectations from different perspectives about the contribution of technology-enabled collective transportation to social and environmental challenges for transport in the region. date: 2023-09 date_type: published publisher: Inter-American Development Bank official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0005176 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2108824 doi: 10.18235/0005176 lyricists_name: Sabogal Cardona, Orlando lyricists_id: OASAB37 actors_name: Sabogal Cardona, Orlando actors_id: OASAB37 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public series: IDB Technical Note number: 02791 place_of_pub: Washington, D.C., USA pages: 49 citation: Oviedo, Daniel; San Gil, Andrea; Sabogal-Cardona, Orlando; Scholl, Lynn; (2023) Microtransit in Latin America and the Caribbean: Governance, operations, and regulation for socially inclusive and sustainable urban mobility. (IDB Technical Note 02791). Inter-American Development Bank: Washington, D.C., USA. Green open access document_url: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181442/1/Microtransit-in-Latin-America-and-the-Caribbean-Governance-operations-and-regulation-for-socially-inclusive-and-sustainable-urban-mobility%20%281%29.pdf