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The organizing and managing of collective bus transport for
the city of Constantine
Study by: Trifa Mohamed
University of Constantine, Institute of Urban technologies
Department: City management and development Constantine 29/10/2016
Introduction:
Public bus commuting plays an important and
major role in all the cities of the world for its
great importance, as it affects and is affected by
both the city and the human , it provides
economic, social , political , cultural mobility and
organization of the field, and restructuring of
the infrastructure in addition to its coherence ,
with the other means of transportation , the
Algerian growth within the field is clear but it
has not risen to the intended and sufficient level
from a viewpoint of organization and
management ,taking into consideration the
conditions of the vehicles in use , and the
increase of individual car use and the increasing
demand on the public transportation , which has
led to the saturation of roads, and thus the lack
of supply , so we ought to upgrade the
transportation elements, road networks and
creating a variety of transportation options,
especially buses through creative organization
and management tools , both as short term and
medium term in order to provide and build a
liquidity on the roads and improving the means
of transportation in order to build a strong
public transportation system.
The city of Constantine has been chosen as a
space for an implementation study for the
condition for the different means of
transportation based on a regional level (urban,
suburban and interstate) according to the
demand and polarization for the city as it is dual
demand from both in and outside the city, and
so the subject of the study is brought as an
official sponsor and all of this entitled “The
organising and managing of collective bus
transport for the city of Constantine”.
The city of Constantine has undergone a
weakness and a lack of public transportation,
and chaotic management in the manner it has
been managed , regarding the increasing
demand and urban expansion within the city
and in order to study the problems and factors
that led to a huge shortage in the transportation
service in the city of Constantine , we are going
to analyze the elements of these problems
through asking the following questions:
What are the main problems that face the
Bus public transportation? , and how satisfied
are we with this situation and what are the
suggestions and solutions presented?
The degradation of the public buses is a result of
means , management and organization.
1) Levels of geographic studies in the urban
field:
If the construction study for both civil and social
world takes place within the urban structure of
the city and its suburbs, the spectrum of
geographic study will broaden to include the
boundary that includes whatever affects and
gets affected by the city, creating what is known
as the city region which is difficult to specify
accurately, within this frame Mark Kot has set
three levels for geographic research; the first
level deals with the constructed areas of the
city (able to be expanded), the second level is
about the urban area and finally the third level
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is about the urban region which is applied in the
study.
1-1)The urban region: It is the employment as in
the field that is connected to the city
economically and service wise and the study
depends on the flow ( people, merchandise,
money and decision-making ) , these flows are
less in number compared to those in the urban
areas yet they are more powerful and
influential as they represent a field of effect or
attraction to the city[1]
.
2) define Public commuting : or the ordinary
people commuting through transportation
systems that transport citizens and goods from
and to shopping ,residential, and education
areas such as schools, universities and leisure
spaces[2]
.
It is known in the official journal as:
Transportation used in readied vehicles by a
manufacturing party to transport both
individuals and goods from one place to another
through roads[3]
.
3) Policy and management of collective
transportation (Constantine, Algeria) :
The number of vehicles in Algeria was estimated
at 3985958 in 2008 by the national statistics,
where the touristy vehicles have in the top with
61.77% by 2462003 vehicles, the urban vehicles
and intercity has reached 67311 with a
percentage of 1.69%from the total number of
vehicles, and concerning the city of Constantine
its yard has reached 138424 vehicles, with a
share of 3.47% of the whole country’s yard, and
the majority of the governments yard is old and
had been manufactured before the year 2000
estimated at 2844825 vehicles by 71.37%[4] , and
we will elaborate in this research to study the
policy of collective transportation in Algeria
before and after the year 1988 that resulted in
Acts and new executive laws in this field and
this is was due the government following a new
economical strategy [5]
, the government policy
has undergone three stages from monopoly to
privatization, then gradually returning through
ETC (The national institutions for urban
transportation) after significant absence , The
nation returned to the collective transportation
after the issuing of the executive act 386-04 in
November 24th 2004 urban public institutions
distributed in different regions as follows: Algers
ETUSA, Constantine ETC , Oran Eto, Setif ETUS,
Annaba ETA , Skikda ETS. Laws and acts have
also been passed that would work on the
privatization of the transportation system and
provide facilities which led to an increase in
investment in urban, semi urban, the rural
transport and inter cities, the national transport
policy was reflected in the transport policy for
the state of Constantine which has witnessed a
large increase in buses, and chart 01 represents
the evolution of urban ,semi urban, rural and
inter cities collective bus transport starting from
the year 2004 to the year 2013 where the urban
,semi urban, rural and inter cities bus yard has
evolved and observed increasing growth
especially urban buses starting from 650 in 2004
to 1092 buses in 2013 and this is because of the
increasing demand on transportation within the
cities.
Chart (1) the evolution of the number urban ,semi urban, rural and inter cities collective bus transport
for the city of Constantine.
years
line
type
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
INTER-CITY 561 581 581 595 818 818 889 115 116 181
URBAN 611 679 611 611 681 711 865 915 987 5198
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SEMI- URBAN
588 518 511 511 561 561 577 598 591 581
RURAL 591 858 881 817 851 816 861 871 878 816
TOTAL 5515 5881 5818 5815 5818 5111 5187 5187 5711 5815
Source: transport directory for the city of Constantine –December 2014-
4)Network of Collective bus transport: We will elaborate on the study of collective network transport
lines on its various levels as they are connected and coherent , and this detailed study branches out of
field investigation according to urban lines between cities and states from a viewpoint of the size of
daily commuters in addition to buses and their conditions and the lines they operate on.
4-1)The Urban stations : represented in chart (02)
Chart (02) :The Urban stations for the city of Constantine
Station Number
of lines
Number of
buses
according to
capacity
Total
bus
number
The Size of
commuters
in day per
line
Average
number of
commuters
in a bus
par day
Bus condition
Less
than
35
seats
From
35 to
100
seats
Before
2010
After
2010
khmisti 8 78 55 81 51161 561 71 8
Kitouni abd
el malek 1 89 / 89 8111 881 89 1
Bab el
kantara 11 61 9 69 58111 516 19 55
Klm 4- el
meridj 15 18 / 8 561 81 18 /
Centre ville –
sidi mabrouk 15 11 / 1 5111 811 11 /
Bousof –
djbel el
ouahche
15 81 16 86 58981 881 65 81
Total 59 818 86 871 16171 5511 815 11
Source: field investigation 2014.
These stations play a major role in the bus
transport in in urban lines as it contains 19 lines
distributed on the urban soil of the city of
Constantine. With a total number of buses
reaching 274, out of which 248 are from the
station yard seating 35, 231 from the same sum
is considered relatively old, before 2010, and
concerning the commuters their number has
reached 56070.
4-2) Inter-city stations: Represented in chart (03)
Chart (03) :Inter-city stations for the city of Constantine
Station Number
of lines
Number of
buses
Total
bus
The Size of
commuters
Average
number of
Bus condition
