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Accessibility and social welfare : a study of the city of Johannesburg
Dissertation (MEng)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/66211 Accessibility and social welfare : a study of the city of Johannesburg Venter, C.J. (Christoffel Jacobus) u11027445@tuks.co.za Lionjanga, Nahungu Nahungu UCTD Accessibility Social welfare Public transportation Johannesburg Time-series analysis Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities Dissertation (MEng)--University of Pretoria, 2018. Within the corpus of accessibility measures is the Net Wage After Commute which describes the potential wage earnable less the transport costs incurred to commute to work from a particular location. This study examines the time-series development of accessibility, using this poverty-relevant metric, from townships in the City of Johannesburg, biennially from 2009 to 2013 when accessibility patterns were altered as a result of major investment in the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system Rea Vaya. Furthermore, a difference-in-differences methodology was adopted to explore the effect of access to the BRT on the welfare of lower-income households, investigating the premise that transport related benefits brought about by such investments translate to social welfare improvements. The results suggest that significant time-series changes in accessibility patterns are driven by improved affordability of public transport against the backdrop of decentralisation, particularly for low-income areas in the peripheries of the city. However, the marginal benefits of improving accessibility from regions with already high levels of accessibility are relatively low. The BRT improved accessibility to jobs from Soweto, but only minimally, suggesting that in polycentric regions like Johannesburg which grapple with poor modal integration, investment in improving accessibility to an already well accessible CBD could potentially result in only minimal improvements in accessibility. The difference-in-differences model revealed that implementation of the BRT did not result in any significant welfare improvements for the served community. However, an increase in the accessibility to jobs offered by the BRT resulted in a larger increase in the social welfare of those in close proximity to the service than it did for the wider community. This suggests that the BRT in Johannesburg is beneficial as a transport project to users within close proximity to the service, but not as a general urban intervention able to uniformly improve the overall amenity of the served community. Civil Engineering MEng Unrestricted 2018-08-17T09:42:41Z 2018-08-17T09:42:41Z 4/19/18 2018 Dissertation Lionjanga, NN 2018, Accessibility and social welfare : a study of the city of Johannesburg, MEng Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/66211> A2018 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/66211 en © 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Accessibility Social welfare Public transportation Johannesburg Time-series analysis Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities Accessibility and social welfare : a study of the city of Johannesburg |
| title | Accessibility and social welfare : a study of the city of Johannesburg |
| title_full | Accessibility and social welfare : a study of the city of Johannesburg |
| title_fullStr | Accessibility and social welfare : a study of the city of Johannesburg |
| title_full_unstemmed | Accessibility and social welfare : a study of the city of Johannesburg |
| title_short | Accessibility and social welfare : a study of the city of Johannesburg |
| title_sort | accessibility and social welfare a study of the city of johannesburg |
| topic | UCTD Accessibility Social welfare Public transportation Johannesburg Time-series analysis Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/66211 |