Project Overview

Our project—Popular to Popular Transport Integration in Africa (POINT)—addresses the theme of equitable, affordable, and reliable access to livelihoods, services, leisure activities, and opportunities, as outlined in the VREF ARP-MAC call. It aims to shift research, policy, action, and investment towards prioritising popular-to-popular transport integration in urban and transportation planning in Africa, helping to make cities more accessible—especially for disadvantaged individuals and groups who rely on these systems for mobility, and as a source of livelihood.

POINT represents a transformative collaborative research initiative addressing critical mobility and accessibility challenges in African cities. Launched in January 2025, the project brings together researchers from leading institutions to investigate the integration of popular transport systems within urban and transportation planning frameworks.

News

Dr Malonza advances POINT Project at Africa Mobility Forum in Nairobi

The Principal Investigator (PI) of the POINT project at the University of Rwanda, Dr. Josephine Malonza attended the Q1 Consortium Leads (…)

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Call for Applications : VREF Grants for Urban Logistics Summer School in Antwerp

Join the University of Antwerp this summer for an intensive week on the future of urban logistics. We are pleased to offer five travel (…)

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POINT Project launched at UR to drive transport solutions in Rwanda and Ghana

The University of Rwanda in collaboration with the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF), has officially launched a landmark (…)

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Consortium Partners

University of Rwanda

Leading research partner based in Kigali, Rwanda

KNUST Ghana

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Aalto University

Research partner from Finland

University of Oxford

Research partner from the United Kingdom

POINT

Popular to Popular Transport Integration in Africa

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Saturday-Sunday: Closed

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KN 67 Street, SABE Building

Nyarugenge, Kigali City

P.O. Box 3900 Kigali-Rwanda

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