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Abidjan Transport Company
The Abidjan Transport Company (, abbreviated SOTRA) is the public transit provider for Abidjan, Ivory Coast and its suburbs. It is the first urban transport company organized in West Africa. SOTRA is a company that manages transit through its bus and water bus fleet. This company was created on December 16, 1960, to manage all modes of surface transportation, which were previously provided by private interests. Its status is that of a mixed economy company. History Before 1960, the public transport was made Abidjan in the traditional way with pinasse (canoe), pinnaces on the lagoon and the truck, van s brand Renault commonly called "thousand pounds" and carrying twenty passengers on a fixed route. Of Passenger car (rail), cars carrying fewer than a dozen passengers on a fairly regular route and some taxi s completed means of displacement. The 16 is created Abidjan Transport Company (SOTRA), a mixed economy company whose capital is owned 35% by the Côte d'Ivoire, Ivorian governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Establishment
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociology, sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkeit'' or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science, psychology, marketing, and advertising. In public relations and communication science, it is one of the more ambiguous concepts in the field. Although it has definitions in the theory of the field that have been formulated from the early 20th century onwards, and suffered more recent years from being blurred, as a result of conflation of the idea of a public with the notions of audience, market segment, community, constituency, and stakeholder. Etymology and definitions The name "public" originates with the Latin ''wikt:publicus#Latin, publicus'' (also ''wikt:poplicus#Latin, poplicus''), from ''wikt:populus#Latin, populus'', to the Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
