Each dot below is a real household type from the Kiira futures lab, an agent-based model of 100 suburbs in Greater Kampala. Scroll to watch what happens to them, and to the boda riders and shops around them, when electric shuttles start running to the main road.
By Gava Charles · November 2026 · planning estimates from open data and stated assumptions
Change what matters most, the price of diesel, demand or the aggregator's fees, and re-run all the agents in your browser.
Open the futures labThe network modelHouseholds: 90 sample families per suburb, each standing for a few hundred real ones; one boda dot = 10 riders; one shop dot = 20 small shops. Best options use the lab's default weights and the median of 12 futures. Map: OpenStreetMap, WorldPop, Meta RWI. Model and story by Gava Charles.