- Title
- Possible futures for transport in South Africa towards 2035
- Creator
- Mnqeta, Qawekazi Wanda
- Subject
- Transportation -- South Africa
- Subject
- Transportation and state -- South Africa Urban transportation -- South Africa Automobile industry and trade -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MBA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/22746
- Identifier
- vital:30071
- Description
- It is evident that there is a great dissatisfaction with the current model of transport as the level of accidents continue to rise. The containment on carbon emission levels are illusive and transport congestion is becoming impossible to handle. The number of cars in cities is increasing rapidly, resulting in increased traffic congestion, less mobility, poor air quality and more road accidents. In the National Development Plan (NDP), one of the challenges identified is that despite a slowdown in the growth within urban areas, 14 million people are projected to move to South African cities between 2010 and 2050 (UN-Habitat, 2014).This will exert pressure on service delivery by municipalities – including transport and transport infrastructure. A large proportion of these new urban residents will be poor, further enhancing the pressure. Transportation networks or systems are therefore key to the spatial transformation of South Africa’s urban areas. Although there has been significant progress in some cities in delivering new public transport infrastructure, the major shift from supporting private cars to incentivising public transport is yet to happen. The NDP vision for urban South Africa is that by 2030, South Africa should observe meaningful and measurable progress in reviving rural areas and in creating more functionally integrated, balanced and vibrant urban settlements. For this to happen, it is said that the country must clarify and relentlessly pursue a national vision for spatial development, sharpen the instruments for achieving this vision and build the required capabilities in the state and among citizens (The Presidency of South Africa, 2011). The outcomes of this analysis of future studies theory and practice supported the argument presented at the beginning of this research that there is robust requirement for a fundamental shift in the ways and methods of planning the future of South Africa’s transport industry towards 2035.
- Format
- ix, 91 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economics Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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