NATMAP 2050 Synopsis Update Colloquium 30 October 2015 Breakaway Session 3: Transport Safety and Rural Transport

Breakaway Session 3 Outline 2 1.Transport Safety Current Realities Issues and Challenges Priorities Interventions 2.Rural Transport Current Realities Issues and Challenges Priorities Interventions 3.Discussion

1. Current Realities: Transport Safety 3  South Africa has one of the worst road fatality rates in the world.  SA compares poorly to other developing countries ROAD SAFETY RegionDeaths / population World18 Africa24,1 South Africa31.9 (2011)

2. Issues and Challenges: Transport Safety 4 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 5 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

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

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 5. Interventions: Transport Safety

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 10 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

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

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 13 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?

10. The Implementation Process Define the fundamental 1.Have clear priorities 2.Option prioritization process - prioritisation methodology aimed at guiding planners implementing transport or spatial planning and applying NATMAP Outline Guidance for Transport Investment – business case guidelines to be followed to enable implementation of projects / intervention 4.NATMAP 2050 delivery and implementation guidance 5.A framework for measuring progress (KPI’s) 14

10. Framework For Using NATMAP