Transportation is a constitutional part of most supply and value chains in modern economies. Smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia face severe challenges along their supply and value chains. In particular, suitable, affordable, and available transport services are in high demand. To develop context-specific technical solutions, a problem-to-solution methodology based on the interaction with technology is developed. With this approach, we fill the gap between proven transportation assessment frameworks and general user-centered techniques. Central to our approach is an electric test vehicle that is implemented in rural supply and value chains for research, development, and testing. Based on our objective and the derived methodological requirements, a set of existing methods is selected. Local partners are integrated in an organizational framework that executes major parts of this research endeavour in Arsi Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia.

翻译：运输是现代经济中大多数供应链和价值链的基本组成部分。埃塞俄比亚农村的小农户在其供应链和价值链中面临严峻挑战，尤其对合适、可负担且可获取的运输服务有迫切需求。为开发因地制宜的技术解决方案，本研究提出了一种基于技术交互的从问题到解决方案的方法论。通过这一方法，我们填补了经过验证的运输评估框架与通用用户中心技术之间的空白。该方法的核心是一辆用于农村供应链和价值链研究、开发与测试的电动测试车辆。基于研究目标及由此衍生出的方法论需求，我们选取了一系列现有方法，并将当地合作伙伴整合到一个组织框架中，该框架负责在埃塞俄比亚奥罗米亚州阿尔西地区执行本研究的大部分工作。