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December 2002
Case Study: Ouagadougou
Most motorized trips (81 percent) are made on two-wheeled taxi-motos that carry no more than one passenger apiece. Because of the low carrying capacity of mopeds, the 1.4 million motorized trips generate over 4 million vehicle kms traveled each day.

The study estimated how much future pollution levels would be reduced by corrective measures that would either (1) reduce vehicle emissions by reducing vehicle age, reducing the sulfur content of diesel fuel, and replacing half of two-stroke mopeds with four-stroke mopeds, (2) reduce the total vehicle kms required for a given number of trips by using buses for heavily traveled routes. Each of these approaches would reduce pollution by about the same amount, but neither alone would reduce pollution to an acceptable level.

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