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This contribution proposes a quantitative overview of post-socialist public transport system development trajectories. The goal is to offer a first attempt to define common patterns within the region, and in comparison to other world regions, with the intention to attend to diversities, specificities and commonalities in a comparative perspective.
The recent years have brought about many insightful and detailed case studies to the light, accounting for local actor constellations, decision-making processes, knowledge flows and market processes – so that, by now, the time seems ripe to take stock once more, and briefly adopt a decidedly zoomed-out perspective across countries, and across decades of public transport development. This is all the more relevant with burgeoning debates on mobility transitions, and the attention to the role of mobility cultures and long trajectories for pre-figuring mobility futures.
The data is largely based on transphoto.org public transport enthusiast community resources.
