Travel aids: what the UK could learn from developing countries
Personal timetable updates and an Uber alternative are just some of the innovations being pioneered in the global south
Personalised information about public transport and an Uber alternative that treats its drivers well are useful ideas that you might expect to hail from cities in Europe or the US.
But GoMetro is an app from South Africa and Careem is an Uber-style firm working across the Middle East and north Africa. They are typical of some of the innovative partnerships in the global south producing ideas from which many western governments and companies could learn.
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Source: Guardian Transport
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