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Benchmarking Ghanaian cities: A report on urban transportation and accessibility

Project Active from to Cities and Sustainable Growth

This project aims to produce accurate measures of transport and accessibility performance in Ghanaian cities and compare them with peer cities around the world. It also develops a replicable methodology and code base for future studies in other countries, providing policymakers with a comprehensive evidence base on urban accessibility and city performance.

Researchers

Gilles Duranton

Professor of Real Estate, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Adam Storeygard

Professor of Economics, Tufts University

Victor Couture

Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Prottoy Akbar

Assistant Professor in Economics of Transportation, Aalto University

Bernardo Barboza Ribeiro

PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia

Project outputs

Report cover page

Benchmarking Ghanaian cities: A report on urban transportation and accessibility

Gilles Duranton, Adam Storeygard, Victor Couture, Prottoy Akbar, Bernardo Barboza Ribeiro
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Ghana