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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2012

Moving around the Philippines

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Visitors to Manila are quickly aware of the traffic jams and impediments to efficient transport within the capital region of the Philippines. Hours seem to be lost in traffic, and public transportation is very crowded. What are the reasons for these difficulties? Poor planning, lack of enforcement of the rules of circulation, an excessive rate of motorization, an insufficient development of quality public transit? What should be the role of "informal" transport (trisikel, pedicab, jeepneys) in a system of mobilities that should remain fair to all, rich and poor alike? The same set of questions arises for the mobility across the country. As an archipelago, and a country where Metro Manila is attracting many people from the provinces, the Philippines present specific constraints to easy mobility from one island to another. In the quasi-absence of any bridge (or tunnel) between the islands, territorial discontinuities are overcome by a complex system of ferries, either for short-distance crossings, or for longer travel between islands. The implementation of the Strong Republic Nautical Highway appears as a attempt to better integrate land-based and water-based transportation. But is it efficient? How do airlines compete with boat travel in a poor country ? Are small islands suffering for excessive isolation, even if they appear geographically close to the major islands? These approches at different scales, intra-metropolitan and inter-island, allow us to develop some reflexions about the challenges posed by mobility in densely populated countries experiencing rapid economic growth and a change in travel behaviors.

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Géographie
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hal-00915674 , version 1 (09-12-2013)

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Yves Boquet. Moving around the Philippines. 108th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Feb 2012, New York, United States. ⟨hal-00915674⟩
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