All the analyses for cities in the report were run with the following identical variables:

- 4km/h walking speed for pedestrians accessing transit

- 7AM to 9AM on a weekday – peak travel time

- Within 60 minutes travel time between departure and arrival Where GTFS feeds with specific stops were unavailable, 400 meters was assumed as the distance between stops.

Data produced by WhereIsMyTransport<sup>7</sup> were used for five cities – Lusaka, Kampala, Harare, Douala and Cape Town. WhereIsMyTtransport is a South African company which collects and digitizes data from formal and informal public transport networks to produce GTFS feeds. Data collected include information on fares, stops, routes, frequencies and travel times and speeds. This mapping is carried out with local partners and identification of all available modes of transport within the city and local teams of data collectors. Routes and data are validated in the field by the local team during daily feedback sessions with data collectors.

The transport data for Nairobi are based on the Digital Matatus Project. This was carried out in 2012-2014 by the DigitalMatatus consortium comprising the Universities of Nairobi, Columbia, MIT and Groupshot, to produce a map of the Matatu minibus network in Nairobi. University of Nairobi students collected information on bus routes, schedules and stops with GPS technology based on their phones. Students and the Civic Data Design lab at MIT analyzed the data, and created a public transit map and a GTFS feed (Williams et al. 2015; Klopp et al. 2015).

The transport data for Dar es Salaam were a combination of sources, collected and aggregated by the World Bank office. The transport system includes the DalaDala routes, mapped as an initiative of the Ramani Huria team, the Tanzania Open Data Initiative (TODI) team from the World Bank, and Ally.<sup>8</sup> The transit information for the operating BRT routes where provided the by DART transit agency.

For Conakry, the route map is based on maps produced for the ongoing Plan de Déplacement Urbain (PDU) de Conakry, produced by the European Union and a 2006 study produced by SYSTRA. For Bamako, the maps of the Sotrama minibus taxi network were produced and provided by the “Cellule de Préfiguration de l’Agence Urbaine de Bamako” (CPAUB) housed in the mayor of Bamako’s office. The data for Kigali were collected by IGC for a study on accessibility performed in 2016.

# **4.2 Employment Opportunities**

Data on the location of jobs were available for this study only for Kigali, Bamako and Dar es Salaam.<sup>9</sup> These data sets showed the location and number of firms at the district level, and in the case of Kigali, also the number of employees. For the other cities, an extrapolation of job locations was created by analyzing available information and creating a relative index of job-

> 7 https://www.whereismytransport.com/about/

> 8 _http://ramanihuria.org/putting-dar-es-salaam-dala-dalas-map/_

> 9 Although it exists also for Nairobi, Dakar and Kampala through travel surveys. Because we could not cover the whole sample of 11 cities with official data sources, we looked for proxies for employment data for the whole sample.

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