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An assessment of the drivers and barriers impacting the adoption of self-regulation in road freight transport – the case of the road transport management system in South Africa
Thesis (MCom)--Stellenbosch University, 2025.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/132557 An assessment of the drivers and barriers impacting the adoption of self-regulation in road freight transport – the case of the road transport management system in South Africa Neethling, Johannes Henoch Bod, Anneke de Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Dept. of Logistics. Freight transportation -- Regulations -- South Africa Freight transportation -- Standards -- South Africa Transportation -- Self-regulation -- South Africa Transportation -- Law and legislation -- South Africa Compliance -- Transportation -- South Africa Transportation -- Management -- South Africa UCTD Thesis (MCom)--Stellenbosch University, 2025. Neethling, J. H. 2025. An Assessment of the Drivers and Barriers Impacting the Adoption of Self-Regulation in Road Freight Transport – The Case of the Road Transport Management System in South Africa. Unpublished masters thesis. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/6985c045-0eba-4152-90d4-795ea8fef9e9 ENGLISH SUMMARY: South Africa’s road freight transport sector (RFTS) is plagued by an ongoing culture of non-compliance and poor safety, ineffective enforcement of government regulations, and ever-increasing demand. This situation has contributed to many pressing challenges and risk factors within the sector, such as high accident and overloading rates, poor driver behaviour and road infrastructure, and subsequent economic, social and environmental cost inefficiencies. Although a self-regulation initiative, the Road Transport Management System (RTMS), has shown outstanding results in addressing these challenges, adoption of the RTMS national standard has not increased as expected. This research, therefore, aimed to gain insight into the factors (i.e. drivers and barriers) that impact the adoption of self-regulation practices in the South African RFTS through an extended case study process focused on the RTMS national standard. An extended literature review process was conducted to synthesise the factors that impact the adoption of self-regulation in various contexts. The road freight transport’s role in the country’s land freight transport sector, the challenges in the RFTS, and the adoption of self-regulation were thereby investigated. This was followed by a qualitative assessment of RFTS-related stakeholders’ perspectives of the drivers and barriers that impact the adoption of the RTMS national standard. This qualitative assessment was conducted via an extensive interview and observation research process. Furthermore, data from the RTMS database and National Administration Traffic Information System (NaTIS) enabled a quantitative assessment of the extent of RTMS adoption in the RFTS. This quantitative insight guided the quantification of the existing transport and externality cost savings related to the current adoption of the RTMS national standard but also assisted in modelling the potential impact of increased adoption scenarios. Collectively, these approaches enabled the formulation of a strategic framework to motivate the RFTS-related stakeholders to increase the adoption of the RTMS national standard. In 2022, 15 798 trucks (i.e. heavy load vehicles with a gross vehicle mass of more than 3 500 kg) were RTMS certified in South Africa, representing a mere 3.5% of the country’s 385 845 total truck population. Apart from other benefits, this relatively low adoption of the RTMS national standard has led to 24.16 million litres in fuel, R153.47 million in accident and crash externality cost, and 64 972 tonnes in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions being saved in the South African RFTS. This research provides evidence of RFTS-related stakeholders’ strong belief in the positive worth and potential of the RTMS national standard in improving safety, compliance and cost efficiency in the sector. The modelling results for 5%, 10%, 25% and 50% RTMS adoption rates scenarios indicate how increased adoption can drastically reduce the sector’s economic, social and environmental cost inefficiencies. The research, thereby, shows how increased adoption of the RTMS national standard can aid public and private RFTS-related stakeholders in addressing the pressing challenges within the sector. Through the formulation of an adoption framework, this research identified and bridged key gaps concerning the extent of RTMS adoption and the RFTS-related stakeholders’ various shared and contradictory perspectives of the drivers and barriers that impact the adoption of the RTMS national standard. In doing so, the framework can aid improved communication and implementation thereof, which could motivate increased RTMS adoption in South Africa’s RFTS. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Suid-Afrika se pad vragvervoer sektor word geteister deur 'n deurlopende kultuur van nienakoming en swak veiligheid, ondoeltreffende afdwinging van regulasies en snel-toenemende aanvraag. Hierdie situasie het bygedra tot baie van die dringende uitdagings en risikofaktore in die sektor, soos hoe ongeluk en oorlading syfers, swak bestuurder gedrag en padinfrastruktuur, en daaropvolgende ekonomiese, sosiale en omgewings koste-ondoeltreffendheid. Alhoewel 'n selfregulering inisiatief, die ‘Road Transport Management System (RTMS)’, uitstekende resultate toon om hierdie uitdagings die hoof te bied, het die aanvaarding van die ‘RTMS’ nasionale standaard nie toegeneem soos verwag nie. Hierdie navorsing poog daarom om insig te verkry oor die faktore (m.a.w. drywers of hindernisse) wat die aanvaarding van selfregulering praktyke in die Suid-Afrikaanse pad vragvervoer sektor beinvloed deur middel van 'n uitgebreide gevallestudie proses wat op die ‘RTMS’ nasionale standaard fokus. 'n Uitgebreide literatuuroorsig proses is uitgevoer om die faktore wat die aanvaarding van selfregulering in verskeie kontekste beinvloed, te sintetiseer. Pad vragvervoer se rol in die land se land vragvervoer sektor, die uitdagings in die pad vragvervoer sektor en die aanvaarding van selfregulering is daardeur ondersoek. Dit is gevolg deur 'n kwalitatiewe evaluasie van pad vragvervoer sektor-verwante belanghebbendes se perspektiewe van die drywers en hindernisse wat die aanvaarding van die ‘RTMS’ nasionale standaard beinvloed. Hierdie kwalitatiewe evaluasie is deur middel van 'n uitgebreide onderhoud- en waarnemings navorsing proses gedoen. Verder het data van die ‘RTMS’-databasis en die nasionale administrasie verkeer inligtingstelsel (‘NaTIS’) 'n kwantitatiewe evaluasie van die omvang van die aanvaarding van ‘RTMS’ in die pad vragvervoer sektor moontlik gemaak. Hierdie kwantitatiewe insig het bygedra tot die kwantifisering van die bestaande vervoer- en eksternaliteite kostebesparings wat verband hou met die huidige aanvaarding van die ‘RTMS’ nasionale standaard. Dit het ook gehelp met die modellering van die potensiele impak van verhoogde aanneming scenario’s. Gesamentlik het hierdie benaderings die formulering van 'n strategiese raamwerk moontlik gemaak om pad vragvervoer-verwante belanghebbendes te motiveer om die aanvaarding van die ‘RTMS’ nasionale standaard te verhoog. In 2022 was 15 798 trokke (d.w.s. swaarvragvoertuie met 'n bruto voertuigmassa van meer as 3 500 kg) in Suid-Afrika ‘RTMS’ gesertifiseer, wat slegs 3.5% van die land se totale 385 845 trok bevolking verteenwoordig. Afgesien van ander voordele, het hierdie relatief lae aanvaarding van die ‘RTMS’ nasionale standaard daartoe gelei dat 24.16 miljoen liter brandstof, R153.47 miljoen in ongeluk en botsing-verwante eksternaliteite koste en 64 972 ton koolstofdioksied (CO2)-vrystellings in die Suid-Afrikaanse pad vragvervoer sektor bespaar is. Hierdie navorsing lewer bewys van pad vragvervoer sektor-verwante belanghebbendes se geloof in die positiewe waarde en potensiaal van die ‘RTMS’ nasionale standaard in die verbetering van veiligheid, nakoming en kostedoeltreffendheid in die sektor. Die modellerings resultate vir 5%, 10%, 25% en 50% ‘RTMS’-aanvaarding scenario's toon hoe verhoogde aanvaarding die sektor se ekonomiese, sosiale en omgewings koste-ondoeltreffendheid drasties kan verminder. Die navorsing toon daardeur hoe verhoogde aanvaarding van die ‘RTMS’ nasionale standaard pad vragvervoer-verwante belanghebbendes van beide die publieke en privaat sektor kan help om die dringende uitdagings in die sektor aan te spreek. Deur die formulering van 'n aanvaardings raamwerk het hierdie navorsing belangrike leemtes rakende die omvang van ‘RTMS’ aanvaarding, asook pad vragvervoer sektor-verwante belanghebbendes se gedeelde en teenstrydige perspektiewe van die drywers en hindernisse wat die aanvaarding van die ‘RTMS’ nasionale standaard beinvloed, identifiseer en oorbrug. Die raamwerk het dus die vermoe om verbeterde kommunikasie en implementasie van die ‘RTMS’ nasionale standaard aan te help, wat verhoogde aanneming daarvan in Suid-Afrika se pad vragvervoer sektor kan motiveer. Masters 2025-06-11T07:45:34Z 2025-06-11T07:45:34Z 2025-03 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132557 en_ZA Stellenbosch University xv, 289 pages : illustrations, maps, includes annexures application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Freight transportation -- Regulations -- South Africa Freight transportation -- Standards -- South Africa Transportation -- Self-regulation -- South Africa Transportation -- Law and legislation -- South Africa Compliance -- Transportation -- South Africa Transportation -- Management -- South Africa UCTD Neethling, Johannes Henoch An assessment of the drivers and barriers impacting the adoption of self-regulation in road freight transport – the case of the road transport management system in South Africa |
| title | An assessment of the drivers and barriers impacting the adoption of self-regulation in road freight transport – the case of the road transport management system in South Africa |
| title_full | An assessment of the drivers and barriers impacting the adoption of self-regulation in road freight transport – the case of the road transport management system in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | An assessment of the drivers and barriers impacting the adoption of self-regulation in road freight transport – the case of the road transport management system in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | An assessment of the drivers and barriers impacting the adoption of self-regulation in road freight transport – the case of the road transport management system in South Africa |
| title_short | An assessment of the drivers and barriers impacting the adoption of self-regulation in road freight transport – the case of the road transport management system in South Africa |
| title_sort | assessment of the drivers and barriers impacting the adoption of self regulation in road freight transport the case of the road transport management system in south africa |
| topic | Freight transportation -- Regulations -- South Africa Freight transportation -- Standards -- South Africa Transportation -- Self-regulation -- South Africa Transportation -- Law and legislation -- South Africa Compliance -- Transportation -- South Africa Transportation -- Management -- South Africa UCTD |
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