“…Third, the past decade has witnessed a strong tendency towards diversification in the informal transport literature. Studies have sought to understand what makes city residents use paratransit or popular transport modes (e.g., Das & Mandal, 2021;Guillen et al, 2013;Hossain & Susilo, 2011). They have also examined various modes of self-governance within the paratransit sector (e.g., Agbiboa, 2018;, and the diverse ways in which the (local) state seeks to regulate, professionalise and integrate these services into openly sanctioned public transport systems such as BRT (e.g., Paget-Seekins, 2015;Schalekamp, 2017;Sunio et al, 2021).…”