Accelerating COVID-19 related ‘best practice’ in the urban motorcycle taxi sector in Sub-Saharan Africa - Country report: Sierra Leone

Abstract

The outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic and the various measures put in place to mitigate its spread had a considerable impact on the urban transport sector. This report presents and assesses the findings of approximately 60 motorcycle and motor-tricycle taxi operator surveys and approximately 15 key stakeholder interviews conducted in Freetown and Bo, Sierra Leone. The main purpose is to provide evidence-based inputs to policy formulation. This is an output of the High Volume Transport Applied Research Programme