PROJECT TITLE: Innovative solutions for urban mobility in Tashkent

CLIENT: World Bank

This consultancy assignment was funded through a grant from the Korean Green Growth Trust Fund.

PERIOD: 2023

PROJECT AIM

This consultancy assignment was funded through a grant from the Korean Green Growth Trust Fund.

The scope of work for this activity included the following:

-analysis of the existing structure of the World Bank study and development of proposals for its optimization in order to increase the relevance of the data obtained for a specific region.

-Translation of the World Bank questionnaires into Russian and Uzbek.

-Administration of the pilot of both questionnaires for 100 respondents (50 each) in Tashkent.

-Encoding in electronic format.

-Work in collaboration with colleagues from the World Bank to revise research plans based on the results of pilot projects.

-Conducting a public transport survey among 500 respondents.

-Conducting a private transport survey among 500 respondents; and

-preparation of the final database by encoding and cleaning the results obtained in accordance with the accepted methodology.

DESCRIPTION OF ACTUAL SERVICES PROVIDED IN THE ASSIGNMENT

-Provide informal feedback to World Bank colleagues on opportunities to improve draft (pilot) versions of the World Bank Public and Private Transport Surveys.

-Translation of two questionnaires into Russian and Uzbek.

-Conducting two types of surveys. The sample size was 50 people for each type of survey (i.e. a total of 100 people).

-Coding (i.e. converting into an electronic format, where appropriate), translating and «cleaning» pilot survey results.

-Preliminary analysis of the pilot results and provide informal feedback on how the surveys could be best revised / amended in advance of launching finalized versions.

-Responsible for administering the revised World Bank Private Transport Survey to 1000 respondents in Tashkent.

-Final survey results available in English-language Excel format.