Urban Public Transportation System and Its Operations and Use By People in the Gauteng Metropolitan Area

Swanepoel, L.P.; Venter, Johan

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“…First, is accessibility: minibus taxi drivers rely heavily on informal stops, allowing commuters to hop on and hop off, almost at will. In general, local government has been incapable of forcing drivers to adhere to formal stops, operate road worthy vehicles and obey the rules of the road (Swanepoel, 2009). Second, is adaptability: driver associations can adopt route changes or respond to new demands virtually overnight, something no rail or bus system could ever achieve.…”

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Mobility in the Gauteng City-Region

2014

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Design and layout: www.itldesign.co.za Cover image: easterly view of the new rea vaya Bus rapid transit route along Kingsway avenue in JohannesBurg, linKing the university of JohannesBurg and the university of the witwatersrand Contents anthony gotz Chapter 1 Introduction: A new 'golden era' for transport planning? Chapter 2 2011 GCRO Quality of Life Survey: Analysis of transport data Chapter 3 Constructing a Quality of Transport Index: Gauteng's priority townships Chapter 4 New spaces of transport in the Gauteng City-Region: A Gautrain analysis Chapter 5 Transitions to non-motorised transport in Gauteng Chapter 6 A photo essay: Non-motorised transport -forging connections across space and society References Tables Introduction: A new 'golden era' for transport planning? graeme gotz and Chris wrayA key factor in understanding a functional city-region is the daily flows of people between its constituent parts. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), for example, regards the commuter field as a key criterion for defining the extent of a metro-region (OECD, 2011). Traffic flow is also an important urban efficiency concern, as congestion impacts the costs of doing business, which in turn affects regional competitiveness. Congestion is furthermore a key social issue, as long commutes on poorly maintained transit infrastructure affect the quality of life of residents. Transport affordability and access are critical development concerns: high day-to-day costs of travel, the unavailability of public transport in many peripheral areas, and poor home-to-work connections because of badly defined routes and weak intermodal integration all impact severely on the poor, especially in a sprawling city-region where poverty and spatial dislocation are often synonymous. In addition, transport can be a major driver of environmental problems such as air pollution and climate change if road-based modes lead to high carbon emissions. Alternatively, transport can lead to greater urban sustainability if, for example, a city's metabolic rate of liquid fuel consumption can be reduced though measures that reduce car-based travel. Lastly, transport infrastructure, especially that developed for public transport, can have important symbolic and cultural effects, either working productively to bring people together in shared public space, or negatively to further entrench societal divisions. For all of these reasons it is important to delineate the existing flows of traffic across the Gauteng City-Region (GCR); to understand the challenges of transport efficiency, access and affordability; and to gauge the impact of key transport interventions like the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link, the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Programme and associated e-tolling, and municipal Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) infrastructure. This report on Mobility in the Gauteng City-Region has been written in a remarkable moment in the history of transport development in Gauteng. On the one hand the region appears to be in a new 'golden era' of transit infrast...

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Mobility in the Gauteng City-Region

2014

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Urban Public Transportation System and Its Operations and Use By People in the Gauteng Metropolitan Area

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