NATMAP 2050 Synopsis Update
Colloquium
30 October 2015
Breakaway Session 3:
Transport Safety and Rural Transport
Breakaway Session 3 Outline
1. Transport Safety
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Current Realities
Issues and Challenges
Priorities
Interventions
2. Rural Transport
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Current Realities
Issues and Challenges
Priorities
Interventions
3. Discussion
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1. Current Realities: Transport Safety
ROAD SAFETY
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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)
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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
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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 –
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Absence of genuine road traffic safety trends
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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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5. Interventions: Transport Safety
• Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011 – 2020)
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aims is to reduce accident statistics by 50%
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Establishment of a industry-wide user requirement specification
• Road Safety campaigns / initiatives that focus aggressively on:
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effective enforcement
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education - solicit cooperation from all road users / campaign for ‘responsible citizens’
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engineering interventions
• Create Transport Accident Data Bank & Research
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Access to this date must be free and provided in an ethical and truthful manner
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Facilitate research on road safety – establish best practices and lessons learned for SA
• Traffic Control
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Ensure establishment of adequate law enforcement capacity
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Ensure accountability of road safety and institutions
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Implement the AARTO demerit system
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Address corruption
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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