feasibility studies for mass rapid transit have been conducted for nairobi kampala and dakar to pave the way for financing in kenya six bus rapid transit corridors have been mapped out in nairobi to reduce traffic congestion travel time and cost the corridors are expected to hold up to highcapacity buses and reduce travel time and cost by up to per cent the east africa by enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries less compact cities have negative effects on development since sprawl tends to reduce landuse efficiency economically eg proximity of factors of production environmentally eg lower per capita rates of resource use and ghg emissions and socially eg avoidance of settlement on vulnerable land and promotion of reduced travel timesdistances unhabitat eca