Transport Prices and Costs in Africa: A Review of the Main International Corridors

By Supee Teravaninthorn, Gaël Raballand. 2008

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Transport Policies and Development (2015, background): “Transport between Doula and N’Djamena (in Cameroon and Chad, respectively) costs on average 11 US cents per ton-kilometre, versus 5 US cents per ton-km in France and 4 US cents in the US (Teravaninthorn & Raballand, 2008).”
Farmer Bargaining Power and Market Information Services (2015, unknown): “In the case where farmers use (16)To do so, we apply the standard procedure as described in Todd (2008): after excluding points for which the estimated density is zero, we exclude an additional small percentage of the remaining points for which the estimated density is positive but very low.”
Transport Services and Their Impact on Poverty and Growth in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Recent Research and Future Research Needs (2012, background): “Economic decision models such as Roads Economic Decision Model, a simpler version of HDM-4 (the Highway Development and Management model) still do not adequately capture the impact of rural road improvements on travel time or wider social benefits (Teravaninthorn & Raballand, 2008, pp. 99, 101).”