Kenya Bus Rapid Transport

The Kenya Government (GOK) is in need to decongest the Nairobi City and in the process resolve the mass public transport which as it is today is a menace. From the available literature the current mass public transport system operated in Nairobi Metropolitan areas is inefficient and has a lot of safety issues which has an overall effect to the productivity and creates negative impacts on environment and the climate.  In recognition of the apparent problems in the sector the government over the years has been trying to reform the sector. Various laws and legislations are in place today with various players from both the public and the private sector involved. For Nairobi Metropolitan area the Nairobi Metropolitan Transport Authority (NaMATA) has been recently establish through an Executive Order dated February 2017. A bill to operationalize it through Article 189 (2) of the Constitution as a joint authority to deal with the transportation problem within the Nairobi Metropolitan Area is currently under review by the various parties.

The transaction advisory technical assistance was contracted under the Institutional Support to the Kenyan Transport Sector Project being implemented by NTU of Denmark to assist the Federation of Public Transporters Sector (FPTS) to negotiate with the Government of Kenya through NaMATA to take up the first concession of the Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) with the Nairobi metropolitan Area. The assignment involved development of the business and financial plans based on the proposed BRT service