Transport expenditure and affordability: The cost of being mobile

Venter, Christoffel

doi:10.1080/0376835x.2011.545174

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“…As a result of both the physical lack of motorised transport and its non-affordability, the vast majority of both the urban and rural poor walk to most destinations. For example, Venter (2009) identifies that 40% of low income workers walk to work, while the 2003 NHTS identifies that 80% households undertake their food shopping trips on foot, 76% of learners walk to their place of education and roughly 40% of households access health care (traditional or medical) this way. It is also important to note that approximately 65% households in the lowest quintile and 63% of the second lowest quintile reported that they did not use any form of motorised transport over the 7 days prior to the survey week.…”

Section: A Long Tradition Of Transport and Social Development Researcmentioning

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Making the connections between transport disadvantage and the social exclusion of low income populations in the Tshwane Region of South Africa

Lucas

2011

Journal of Transport Geography

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a b s t r a c tTo date, the majority of studies which consider transport from a social exclusion perspective have been conducted in the context of the developed world where both income poverty and lack of transport are relative rather absolute states. In a unique departure from these previous studies, this paper explores the relationship between transport and social disadvantage in the development context, the key difference being that income poverty is absolute and where there is much lower access to both private and public transportation generally. Thus, it seeks to explore whether the concept of social exclusion remains valid, when it is the majority of the population that is experiencing transport and income poverty compared with the minority who do so in advanced economies.The paper is based on a scoping study for the Republic of South Africa Department of Transport (RSA DOT), which primarily involved focus group discussions with a range of socially deprived urban and peri-urban population groups living in the Tshwane region of South Africa. In a second departure from previous studies which consider transport and social disadvantage in the development context, the study takes a primarily urban focus. The rationale for this is that theoretically low income urban settlements do not suffer from the lack of transport infrastructure and motorised transport services in the way that more remote rural areas do. The policy issue is therefore less a question of addressing a deficit in supply and more one of addressing particular aspects of public transit service failure, which are more readily amenable to relatively low cost, manageable, small-scale national and local policy interventions.A primary aim for the study was to reinvigorate cross-government debate of these issues in the hope of breaking South African government's long-standing and persistent policy inertia in the delivery of equitable and socially sustainable urban transport systems.

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Section: A Long Tradition Of Transport and Social Development Researcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making the connections between transport disadvantage and the social exclusion of low income populations in the Tshwane Region of South Africa

Lucas

2011

Journal of Transport Geography

172

119

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“…To a small degree, some of the problems in both the rail and bus transport domains are dealt with by new projects, such as the Gautrain and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) projects respectively (Venter 2011). However, in the GCRO 2013 Quality of Life Survey 3 , a massive 94% of respondents said they never used the BRT, and 99.7% said they never made use of the Gautrain.…”

Section: Public Transport In Gauteng: a Recent Political Historymentioning

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“…However, single use developments are becoming rare internationally so South Africa needs to catch up on this trend (Beavon 2004;Murray 2011). To create a well-organised and successful transportation system is a huge challenge and one that the current BRT and Gautrain projects only very partially address (Pirie 2013;Venter 2011). Thus, it is suggested that mobility issues and public transport provision become a top priority for municipal governments, to the extent that emphasis thereon may necessitate a full assessment of the impact of any new residential, commercial, office or shopping centre developments on infrastructure and public transport.…”

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Spatial politics and infrastructure development: Analysis of historical transportation data in Gauteng - South Africa (1975–2003)

McKay

Simpson

Patel

2017

Miscellanea Geographica

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If South Africa's Gauteng Province is to become a more 'sustainable', urbanised region, attention needs to be paid to building a transportation network that aligns with sustainable development principles. Currently, public transport passenger levels are low, whilst the geographical area it serves is large and becoming larger. This study analysed the long term, historical transportation trends of Gauteng by comparing four transport studies undertaken between 1975 and 2003. It reveals that an adherence to the 'predict and provide' transportation planning model has systematically enhanced road infrastructure over rail, and private over public transport. Effective, efficient and low cost public transport has been systematically under-provisioned; while a reliance on private vehicles is now entrenched and systemic. Racial segregation, spatial apartheid and weak urban land use planning, has resulted in an entrenched, low-density urban sprawl. Lastly, there is the need to collect comparable, longitudinal transportation data, if the successes and failures of policies are to be monitored. KeywordsSustainable transport • landuse planning • public transport • predict and provide model

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“…Affordability is a key constraint to mobility among the urban poor, many of whom spend 20 to 30% of their household income on travel (Howe, 2000;Diaz Olvera et al, 2008;Venter, 2011). It makes no sense to examine access or time-based accessibility while disregarding the fact that many people simply cannot afford to travel to a destination.…”

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Assessing the potential of bus rapid transit-led network restructuring for enhancing affordable access to employment – The case of Johannesburg's Corridors of Freedom

Transport expenditure and affordability: The cost of being mobile

Cited by 70 publications

References 5 publications

Making the connections between transport disadvantage and the social exclusion of low income populations in the Tshwane Region of South Africa

Making the connections between transport disadvantage and the social exclusion of low income populations in the Tshwane Region of South Africa

Spatial politics and infrastructure development: Analysis of historical transportation data in Gauteng - South Africa (1975–2003)

Assessing the potential of bus rapid transit-led network restructuring for enhancing affordable access to employment – The case of Johannesburg's Corridors of Freedom

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