Promotion of Public Transport, Walking and Cycling: Lessons from Johannesburg

The paper will look at the promotion of public transport, walking and cycling in the City of Johannesburg. It will describe the current challenges facing the City including in respect of migration, congestion, ongoing need to address apartheid’s spatial form, high levels of carbon emissions, aging infrastructure, limited resources and responding to climate change. It sets out the key political imperatives and policies that shape city’s transport policy and projects and describes the key City transport initiatives. These include: Promotion of and enablement of mass transit, introduction of Bus Rapid Transit, and restructuring of other bus and mini bus taxis services; enablement and promotion of walking and cycling including through engineering interventions and behavioural change; and, responding to climate change. It provides cross cutting observations and evaluative comments in respect to systems and planning. It concludes with some of the key imperatives for successful transport delivery in large cities, especially in the developing world.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.codatu.org/wp-content/uploads/LIsa-Seftel-ARTICLE-Codatu-XV-2012-EN1.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  CODATU

  21 boulevard Vivier-Merie
  Lyon,   France  69003
• Authors:
  • Seftel, Lisa
• Conference:
  • CODATU XV: The role of urban mobility in (re)shaping cities
  • Location: Addis Ababa , Ethiopia
  • Date: 2012-10-22 to 2012-10-25
• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 27p
• Monograph Title: CODATU XV: The role of urban mobility in (re)shaping cities

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycling; Bus rapid transit; Public transit; Transportation planning; Urban transportation policy; Walking
• Geographic Terms: Johannesburg (South Africa)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01481584
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: TLIB, TRIS
• Created Date: May 20 2013 9:04AM