NATMAP 2050 Synopsis Update Colloquium 30 October 2015 Breakaway Session 3: Transport Safety and Rural Transport Breakaway Session 3 Outline 1. Transport Safety • • • • Current Realities Issues and Challenges Priorities Interventions 2. Rural Transport • • • • Current Realities Issues and Challenges Priorities Interventions 3. Discussion 2 1. Current Realities: Transport Safety ROAD SAFETY South Africa has one of the worst road fatality rates in the world. SA compares poorly to other developing countries Region Deaths / 100 000 population World 18 Africa 24,1 South Africa 31.9 (2011) 3 2. Issues and Challenges: Transport Safety • 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 4 3. Issues and Challenges: Transport Safety cont’d • 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 5 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 6 5. Interventions: Transport Safety • 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 7 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 8 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 9 8. Issues and Challenges: Rural Transport • 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 10 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) 11 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 12 11. Questions / Discussions • 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? 13