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Lack of affordable transport, is a burden to education, employment, medical services, cultural
activities and leisure social exclusion. Transport affordability also include the paying of parking
costs, tickets fines, toll gates cost. 47 According to a report from Ward's Auto released, the global
number of cars exceeded 1.015 billion in 2010, jumping from 980 million the year before. Not
surprisingly, China led the way in vehicle growth, with the number of cars on Chinese roads
increasing by 27.5 per cent, amounting to half the entire global growth. 48
That gives China the world's second largest car population, with 78 million vehicles. But the
United States still constitutes by far the largest vehicle population in the world, with 239.8
million cars, the Ward's study reported.
While the world is filling up with cars, places like Angola (Africa) vehicle ownership per 1000
people is only 40. Africa has the highest transport costs in the world. Transport services are
unaffordable to many African citizens as transport costs are high compared to the average
incomes of the citizens. Travel costs in African cities have a share of 21.7 per cent of GDP.
Freight costs in Africa are significantly higher than the average cost in Asia. The already high
transport costs have been exacerbated in the last few years by the energy crisis associated with
high and volatile oil prices. Factors, including limited skills of managerial and operational staff as
well as poor transport facilitation, play significant roles in the high transport costs in Africa.
47 Affordability [online]. 2011.06 [cit.2012.05.19]. Found from: http://www.vtpi.org/affordability.pdf
48 The Huffington Post Canada, Daniel Tencer [online]. 2011.08.23 3:19 [cit.2012.05.18]. Found from:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/08/23/car-population_n_934291.html
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