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?