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Transportation is a crucial aspect for people living at different life standards in different areas at different times. The necessity for transportation usually is for satisfying one’s life targets. The way of moving from place to place varies from rural areas to urban areas. Transportation in urban areas is too complex to that of rural once. This study aims at developing a mathematical tool to analyze public transport capacity of Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. Understanding the approach how to estimate the public transport capacity of the city is of great importance in planning the public transport for the future. There exist many case reports reflecting different cities suffering from insufficient transport for the habitants and visitors. Having clear understanding of existing public transport capacity, hence, is helpful to allocate options to improve its performance. There exist a variety of urban public transport service providers in Addis Ababa, such as the Light Rail of the city, Anbessa city Bus, Sheger Bus, Higer bus, Taxis, and different types of midi buses.

The safety culture and safety climate of transport companies have a significant impact on fleet safety outcomes. Ample research shows that transport companies with a strong safety culture also show lower crash statistics. In spite of modern technologies that help with having a safer fleet, it is difficult to achieve a safer fleet without a proactive safety culture and climate. In Ethiopia, it is assumed that most transport companies have failed to create a distinguishable safety climate in their fleet safety administration and that their heavy vehicle drivers have a poor safety culture. These could be important factors contributing to a higher rate of road traffic crashes involving heavy vehicles. This study aims to assess the existing safety culture among a sample of transport companies in Ethiopia and identify suitable intervention methods to improve the safety culture. Moreover, the study sought to identify the readiness of the transport companies to apply modern technology in their fleets by examining their safety culture and safety climate. In total, 10 fleet managers and 174 heavy vehicle drivers participated in the fleet safety audit survey. A descriptive analysis and a detailed fleet safety audit score were calculated. Based on the scale scoring, ten companies score below best practices, one scores well below best practices, and only one company meets the criteria to be considered achieving best practices. The results from this study show that the safety culture and safety climate in most transport companies are quite limited. In addition, most transport companies implement similar safety measures, including inconsistent driver training and annual maintenance. This study was supported by the Special Research Fund (BOF) of Hasselt University (BOF20BL07).