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The economic and time impact of poor access to public transport in South African metropolitan areas
Thesis (MCom)--Stellenbosch University, 2022.
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| author | Kgwedi, Mashumu Reginald |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/125879 The economic and time impact of poor access to public transport in South African metropolitan areas Kgwedi, Mashumu Reginald Krygsman, Stephanus Christiaan Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Dept. of Logistics. Transportation -- Economic aspects -- South Africa Travel time (Traffic engineering) -- Transportation -- South Africa Transportation -- Cost effectiveness -- South Africa UCTD Thesis (MCom)--Stellenbosch University, 2022. ENGLISH SUMMARY: Socioeconomic changes are closely associated with transportation systems because they provide mobility for economic, educational, and social opportunities. Intra-generational equity in access to opportunities is increasingly recognised as an essential component of sustainable development and transport. The role of public transport in sustainable urban mobility can be seen as linking people to employment, social, and cultural opportunities. In South Africa, most commuters live far from their workplaces, making their travel to work expensive, since they spend about 15 to 30% of their disposable income on travel. The fares for these low-income passengers increase speedily, and the commuting hours are long. In turn, poor accessibility offered by public transport ultimately influences travel time, daily mode choice, and expenditure. Low-income households and workers, dependent on public transport, are particularly negatively impacted by the inefficient public transport system. This research aims to measure the accessibility of public transport to people who live far from work, to evaluate the multimodal and multistage character of public transport (compares travel time for the journey to work of workers for the various transport modes); to quantify travel time elements for transport users in terms of out-of-vehicle (access, egress, wait and transfer), and lastly to measure the monthly transport expenditure of different transport users in the metros. This will be done by comparing the 2013 and 2020 National House Travel Survey (NHTS) to give insight if the Government has been able to make progress on its stated research objectives (National Development Plan (NDP), Land Transport Policy, etc.). Research using the data from the NHTS 2013 and 2020 illustrates the significance of public transport travel time and the impact of the multimodal, multistage nature of public transport. This is important because, unlike other modes, public transport is multimodal in nature. Multimodal trips have additional time elements including accessing the first mode, waiting, transferring, and egressing; and 'eat' into the productive time of the traveller. In the research, the Accessibility Index (AI) is used to determine the accessibility and density of public transportation at a point of interest (at home, stations, or interchanges). This is done to recognize the importance of accessibility and egress and to consider the need to understand how public transportation users use their time and money. This study shows that workers travel long distances to their workplaces and spend more time and money (disposable income) travelling. This could be because of the multiple trips and modes of transport they need to use to get home or to work. The 2013 NHTS revealed that on average, the metropolitan working population spent about 55 minutes of travelling time, while the 2020 NHTS showed an additional 2 minutes, bringing it to 57 minutes. These travel times included access, egress, waiting, and line haul time. Train users, spend more time travelling than any of the other modes in both surveys. Unfortunately, the mobility challenges the low-income people have not improved over a decade despite some marked expansion of public transport infrastructure and urban development. This is likely to contribute to the income inequality and high unemployment rates of lower-income groups in the country since it limits their access to opportunities. This research presents some recommendations to improve the daily mobility of workers and low-income groups. This is to be done through policy and the design of infrastructure that is equitable and provides for access and egress, as well as the improved valuation of public transport capital projects. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming beskikbaar. Masters 2022-03-10T15:47:20Z 2023-01-16T12:39:32Z 2022-03-10T15:47:20Z 2023-01-16T12:39:32Z 2022-12 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/125879 en_ZA Stellenbosch University xiv, 127 pages : illustrations, includes annexures application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Transportation -- Economic aspects -- South Africa Travel time (Traffic engineering) -- Transportation -- South Africa Transportation -- Cost effectiveness -- South Africa UCTD Kgwedi, Mashumu Reginald The economic and time impact of poor access to public transport in South African metropolitan areas |
| title | The economic and time impact of poor access to public transport in South African metropolitan areas |
| title_full | The economic and time impact of poor access to public transport in South African metropolitan areas |
| title_fullStr | The economic and time impact of poor access to public transport in South African metropolitan areas |
| title_full_unstemmed | The economic and time impact of poor access to public transport in South African metropolitan areas |
| title_short | The economic and time impact of poor access to public transport in South African metropolitan areas |
| title_sort | economic and time impact of poor access to public transport in south african metropolitan areas |
| topic | Transportation -- Economic aspects -- South Africa Travel time (Traffic engineering) -- Transportation -- South Africa Transportation -- Cost effectiveness -- South Africa UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/125879 |
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