Review of Sustainable Multimodal Freight Transportation System in African Developing Countries: Evidence from Ghana

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 155-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Okyere ◽  
Jia Qi Yang ◽  
Kwabena Sarpong Aning ◽  
Bin Zhan
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Intermodal Transport ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Intermodal Freight

The importance of transportation in the socio-economic development of nations cannot be downplayed. Intermodal transport has become vital concept for ensuring sustainable freight transport in developed economies but less focused on among African scientific community as it attracts fewer researches and developments. This paper aims to review and promote the development of sustainable intermodal freight transport systems in African developing countries with insights from Ghana.The researchers adopted literature review approach for the global intermodal developments and that of developing economies with emphasis on Africa and Ghana.Transport experts and experienced practitioners’ opinions were sought to complement the limited literature on the means to improve intermodal transport and logistics management systems. Authors discovered that some African countries like Ghana potentially posses some relevant multimodal resources such as seaport, waterway, railway and road infrastructures. However, they are not well interconnected to acquire intermodal benefits. Besides, the existing transportation systems were mostly road dominated and frauded with cost-inefficiencies; greenhouse gas emissions, traffic congestion, accidents, high maintenance and service deficiencies.The constraints are lack of skilled labor, limited infrastructure, safety and security problems, limited institutional capacity, poor intermodal transport network and connectivity issues. Some practical measures to improve the lapses in the transport system were highlighted. It was suggested that management of African developing countries must remodify their transport policies to attract investors and transport players. This would strengthen Public Private Partnerships (PPP) collaborations in developing intermodal freight transport and logistics systems.

scholarly journals Implications of Africa's Transportation Systems for Development in the Era of Globalization

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 147-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ambe J. Njoh
Keyword(s):  
Regional Integration ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Intermodal Transport ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Colonial Master

The paper identifies and discusses major implications of Africa's contemporary transport infrastructure for the continent's development in general and its active participation in the globalization process in particular. Initially it identifies and analyses major events in the evolution of the continent's modern transport systems. It is revealed that colonial authorities did the most to develop these systems. However, because the systems were designed to facilitate the extraction and transmission of products from the continent to the colonial master nations, they are deemed incapable of enhancing the active participation of African countries in the globalization process. In an effort to reverse this situation, a number of specific steps, including increasing the stock of all-season roads, regional integration, the promotion of intermodal transport facilities, and the adoption of safety measures in the transport sector, are proposed.

scholarly journals Deployment of Vanets Infrastructure to Aid Road Transport Systems in Developing Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Konyeha ◽  
E. Osa
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Waiting Times ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Road Transportation ◽  
The Road

This work proposes the adoption of Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET) into the Road Transport system of developing countries. There are myriads of challenges to road transportation in developing countries which include poor state of roads, poor maintenance of roads, road congestions amongst others. The negative impacts of these developments could be very devastating on human lives as well as the economy of the nations concerned. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) which involve the integration of modern communication and information technology into existing transportation systems for real time monitoring of traffic in order to alleviate traffic congestion, incidents, public health issues, etc. Utilizing VANET communication infrastructure will enable ITSs to improve safety of commuters on the roads and minimize traffic congestion, waiting times, fuel consumption, and emissions. The situation in the Nigerian State is considered.

A Comprehensive Study on Intelligent Transportation Systems

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Ankur Mishra ◽  
Aayushi Priya
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Intelligent Transport System ◽  
Intelligent Transport ◽  
Transportation Sector

Transportation or transport sector is a legal source to take or carry things from one place to another. With the passage of time, transportation faces many issues like high accidents rate, traffic congestion, traffic & carbon emissions air pollution, etc. In some cases, transportation sector faced alleviating the brutality of crash related injuries in accident. Due to such complexity, researchers integrate virtual technologies with transportation which known as Intelligent Transport System. Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) provide transport solutions by utilizing state-of-the-art information and telecommunications technologies. It is an integrated system of people, roads and vehicles, designed to significantly contribute to improve road safety, efficiency and comfort, as well as environmental conservation through realization of smoother traffic by relieving traffic congestion. This paper aims to elucidate various aspects of ITS - it's need, the various user applications, technologies utilized and concludes by emphasizing the case study of IBM ITS.

scholarly journals Innovative entrepreneurship in emerging and developing economies: the effects of entrepreneurial competancies and institutional voids

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amirmahmood Amini Sedeh ◽  
Amir Pezeshkan ◽  
Rosa Caiazza
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Institutional Voids ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
Innovation Barriers ◽  
Entrepreneurial Competencies ◽  
Emerging And Developing Countries ◽  
Different Levels

AbstractInnovative entrepreneurship is one of the key drivers of economic development particularly for less developed economies where the economic growth is at the forefront of policymakers’ agenda. Yet, the research on how various factors at different levels interact and bring about innovative entrepreneurship in emerging and developing countries remains relatively scarce. We address this issue by developing a multilevel framework that explains how entrepreneurial competencies attenuate the negative impact of innovation barriers. Our analysis on a sample of individuals from 24 economies, 17 developing and 7 emerging countries, reveals that entrepreneurial competencies become more instrumental for innovative entrepreneurship when general, supply-side, and demand-side innovation barriers are higher. The findings offer unique insights to policymakers particularly in developing countries interested in promoting innovative entrepreneurship and to entrepreneurs and investors seeking to establish and support innovative ventures.

Potential Applications of Intelligent Transportation Systems to Road Freight Transport in Mexico

2000 ◽  
Vol 1707 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-85
Author(s):  
Alberto Mendoza ◽  
Antonio García
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Environment Friendly ◽  
Generic Term ◽  
Road Freight ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Made In

In the past few years, tools have been developed based on different communication means with the purpose of achieving a safer, more efficient, and environment-friendly operation of vehicular flows in the transport systems. Some of the early means generally involved a very strong human participation. In the course of time and with the rapid progress made in electronics, telecommunications, and computer systems, such processes have become automated until generating a series of technologies that currently are incorporated into the single generic term of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). This research has multiple purposes. First, some characteristics of road freight transport in Mexico are presented. Then, with such characteristics under consideration, the ITS technologies with the largest potential for application to that transportation type are described. A vision of future implementation is shown. Finally, some conclusions are presented.

Electronic Commerce Adoption Barriers in Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Developed and Developing Countries

2011 ◽  
pp. 1441-1457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitra Kartiwi ◽  
Robert C. MacGregor
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Developing Economy ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
The World ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
Manager Perceptions ◽  
The Relationship

Today, electronic commerce (e-commerce) has been utilised as a rapid vehicle to transform the world into an information society. In the business environment, e-commerce has made considerable inroads not only into large organisations but also the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However, SMEs are not adopting e-commerce with same speed as their larger counterparts. This slow growth has been attributed to various adoption barriers, which have been well documented in numerous research studies. While several recent studies have begun examining the relationship between the perceptions of adoption barriers in developed economies, the relationship between the perceptions of these barriers has not been fully examined in developing economies. This paper examines the correlation and underlying factors of barriers to e-commerce (as perceived by SME owner/managers) in a developing economy (Indonesia). It then compares these with SME owner/manager perceptions from a developed economy (Sweden). The study showed that there are differences in the groupings and priorities of barriers to e-commerce between the two locations. Most importantly, however, was the finding that while Swedish respondents were more concerned with technical issues, the Indonesian respondents were more concerned with organisational barriers.

Big Data Analytics in Developing Economies

2021 ◽  
pp. 149-166
Author(s):  
Forgor Lempogo ◽  
Ezer Osei Yeboah-Boateng ◽  
William Leslie Brown-Acquaye
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
It Infrastructure ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
The Past

In a world increasingly driven by data, most developed economies are leveraging big data to achieve greater feats in various sectors of their economies. From advertisement, commerce, healthcare, and energy to defense, big data has given new insights into the huge volume of data accumulated over the past few decades that is helping reshape our knowledge and understanding of these sectors. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about the state of big data in the developing world, where investments in IT infrastructure are dangerously low, keeping huge proportions of the population offline. This chapter discussed the challenges that exist in developing countries, which affect the smooth take-off of big data and data science as well as recommendations as to how countries and companies in the developing world can overcome these challenges to harness the benefits and opportunities presented by this technology.

scholarly journals Antidumping as a Development Issue

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1850237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Feinberg
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Trade Policy ◽  
Development Economics ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Development Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economics Literature ◽  
Antidumping Policy

Antidumping policy was for many years an instrument employed almost exclusively by a small number of developed economies. Over the past 15 years, however, the use of this instrument of trade policy has spread to developing economies, and the overwhelming share of antidumping cases now involve developing countries either as petitioner or as target of these cases. This paper describes these trends in some detail and discusses some implications. A focus of the paper is the absence of discussion in the development economics literature on the topic despite the increasingly important role played by antidumping policy.

scholarly journals Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Developed and Developing Countries: Impact of Political Stability

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1390-1404
Author(s):  
R.I. Vasilyeva ◽  
◽  
O.S. Mariev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Likelihood Method ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Development Level ◽  
The Impact

Stable political environment and prominent development of political institutions increase foreign direct investment flows by providing lower risks for investors. However, this impact can vary according to the development of the country. This study aims to investigate the impact of various indicators of political stability on foreign direct investment attraction for different economies distinguished by their development level. Our database includes 66 FDI-recipient countries and 98 FDI-investing countries for the period from 2001 to 2018. By applying the gravity approach and Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood method with instrumental variables (IV PPML), we model bilateral FDI flows, incorporating variables reflecting various aspects of political stability formed by the principal components analysis. Interestingly, we found mixed results regarding the impact of political stability on FDI flows. In particular, political stability indicators were found to be insignificant, when analysing the bilateral FDI flows for the group of developed economies. We obtained similar result for the group of developing economies. However, political stability variables significantly influence FDI flows for countries with different development level, confirming the hypothesis that countries’ development affects bilateral FDI flows. Besides, we discover the significant difference between developed and developing countries referring to FDI-investors. Based on the obtained results, we highlight a few policy implications for developing and developed economies.

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