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NATMAP 2050 Synopsis Update
Colloquium30 October 2015Breakaway Session 3:
Transport Safety and Rural Transport
Breakaway Session 3 Outline
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1. Transport Safety• Current Realities
• Issues and Challenges
• Priorities
• Interventions
2. Rural Transport• Current Realities
• Issues and Challenges
• Priorities
• Interventions
3. Discussion
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1. Current Realities: Transport Safety
South Africa has one of the worst road fatality rates in the world.
SA compares poorly to other developing countries
ROAD SAFETY
Region Deaths / 100 000 population
World 18
Africa 24,1
South Africa 31.9 (2011)
2. Issues and Challenges: Transport Safety
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• Traffic Offences:
Road safety enforcement is inconsistent and comes across as knee jerk reactions to specific occurrences
Very high number of fatalities (31.9/100,000) with a high pedestrian-vehicle accident rate
• Road Traffic Control:
Lack of motivation of enforcers and accountability of institutions
Inadequate enforcement capacity
Ineffectiveness of driver training systems and institutions
• Funding:
Many good initiatives lacks funding
3. Issues and Challenges: Transport Safety cont’d
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• Road User Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes:
Inappropriate reckless / aggressive driver behaviour
Lack of cooperation from all road users
• Road accident data: Non-availability or inaccessibility of road accident data Poor quality data, collected by some departments – inconsistencies Silo nature of data collection Little research conducted on road safety and how to improve Implication –
• Absence of genuine road traffic safety trends
• Data collection, analysis and evaluation of performance of safety initiatives takes place inconsistently, resulting in delayed corrective measures being introduced
Inaccessibility of data, in an ethical and truthful manner
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4. Priorities – Transport Safety
• Ensuring safe, secure and responsible use of roads
• Reduce road carnage by creating a safe road environment
• Implement and evaluate strategies
• Examine the operational hours of Heavy Good Vehicles on public roads in support of road safety objectives.
• Funding
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• Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011 – 2020)
aims is to reduce accident statistics by 50%
Establishment of a industry-wide user requirement specification
• Road Safety campaigns / initiatives that focus aggressively on:
effective enforcement
education - solicit cooperation from all road users / campaign for ‘responsible
citizens’
engineering interventions
• Create Transport Accident Data Bank & Research
Access to this date must be free and provided in an ethical and truthful manner
Facilitate research on road safety – establish best practices and lessons learned for SA
• Traffic Control
Ensure establishment of adequate law enforcement capacity
Ensure accountability of road safety and institutions
Implement the AARTO demerit system
Address corruption
5. Interventions: Transport Safety
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6. Current Realities: Rural Transport
• Accessibility of formal transport infrastructure and services remains poor in rural areas – results in: Difficulties accessing opportunities - slow, time consuming,
expensive & unreliable Rural population productivity, and dis-enables dwellers to access
basic services Perpetuated poverty cycle Isolation of communities
• Walking is the main mode of transport – NMT is important• Deep rural transport takes place on informal paths and track networks
that link villages, farms, water points• Rural transport greatly involves women – consider safety• Low population densities – result in unviable passenger transport
provision
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7. Current Realities: Rural Transport cont’d
• Applying inappropriate urban planning principles in rural areas
• The rural transport network is limited
• Mining activities contribute to significant traffic in rural areas – negative impact on roads
• Implementation of rural transport strategies hampered by lack of funding
• A national strategic rural transport system that connects 18 major nodes that focuses investment and action does not exist
• Inconsistent planning, monitoring and execution of rural transport strategies
8. Issues and Challenges: Rural Transport
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• Lack of economic activities in rural areas result in out-migration
• Low densities in the rural areas render provision of scheduled passenger transport unaffordable
• Most rural trips are for educational purposes and -
− Made on foot, due to lack of modal choice or unaffordability, or using NMT
− 8.3% of learners that walk to school take more than and hour
• Passenger transport is generally inaccessible in many rural areas
• Many rural dwellers spend more than 10% of their income on transport, hence inaccessibility to opportunities and jobs
• Transport subsidies are inequitably allocated across the urban & rural areas
• Scholar transport is either disjointed or inadequately provided
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9. Priorities – Rural Transport
• Provide passenger transport in the rural areas based on the developmental and transformative approaches
• Strive towards a balanced, sustainable rural transport system
• Improve rural transport so as to achieve economic and social development
• Funding policies, strategies and reallocation
• Urban transport and land-use & transport integration
• Country-wide land transport infrastructure improvements (road and rail)
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10. Interventions: Rural Transport
• Join the provision of transport in the rural areas to the developmental approach to planning
• Develop NMT strategy appropriate to rural area mobility needs• Establish a national strategic rural transport network that connects major nodes (e.g. 18 cities) that focuses investment
• Develop a strategic “off-road infrastructure” network implementation plan To address the need to change the focus of rural transport planning from
provision from ‘roads & cars’ to ‘off-road networks’ (e.g. paths, animal drawn carts, tracks etc.)
Examples: Shova Kalula, cycle schemes, dial a ride with local community partnership
• Beneficiation (industrialisation) around primary sector in rural areas • To build population numbers and passenger volumes to enable viable
passenger transport• Needs support from other National Departments
11. Questions / Discussions
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• Question 1: What do you consider the main issues to be that NATMAP 2050 should aim to address?
• Question 2: do you broadly agree with the short, medium long term priorities?
• Question 3: Are the interventions proposed relevant and what else should be considered going forward?
• Question 4: Of the proposed interventions, which do you consider a priority in the short to medium term?
• Question 5: Does the proposed Implementation Framework provide a workable logical methodology to implementing interventions?