establishing a transport authority in gauteng
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TRANSPORT FORUM
Establishing a Transport Authority in Gauteng
Dr Ismail Vadi
(MEC for Roads and Transport, Gauteng)
11 May 2016
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Home to
• 3 Metropolitan municipalities
• 2 District municipalities
• 7 local municipalities
Gauteng: Spatial arrangement
• Gauteng is the smallest of SA’s provinces and takes up 1.4 percent ofthe country's land area – 18 million sq/kms.
• It has the largest population of all the provinces, with 13.3 millionpeople making up 25 percent of South Africa's total.
• With a GDP valued at US$112 billion, Gauteng generates 35 percentof South Africa's GDP and 10 percent of the total GDP of Africancontinent.
• 80 percent of its population live in the three metropolitanmunicipalities
Transport Challenges Within GCR
* rapid in-migration and urbanisation* apartheid (racial) spatial planning, urban sprawl and
low density development* lack of investment in public transport infrastructure* growing demand for integrated, efficient, affordable
public transport *high levels of movement of workers across
municipalities * multiple transport planning authorities and poor
inter-governmental co-ordination5
Gauteng Municipal Growth 2001 – 2011 (StatsSA 2011)
Gauteng Municipal
Growth 2001 – 2011 Population
% Population
Growth
% of Total Gauteng
Population
Municipality 2001 2011 2001 – 2011 2001 2011
West Rand District 74 4627 82 0995 10 8 7
Sedibeng District 794 088 916 484 15 8 8
Ekurhuleni 2 481 762 3 178 470 28 26 26
Tshwane 2 142 322 2 921 488 36 23 24
Johannesburg 3 226 055 4 434 827 37 34 35
Gauteng 9 388 854 12 271 736
13.3 million
31 100 100
6Population is expected to increase to 18 million by 2030
• Highest densities found on periphery of urban environment and core economic activities –strong demand for public transport
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Cross Municipal Mobility Patterns
Public Transport System
public transport system lacks integration/no common norms andstandards/has multiple administrative agencies
National government: Passenger Rail Agency – Metrorail Provincial government: Gautrain Rapid Rail + 34 provincial bus
contracts Johannesburg – Metrobus, Rea Vaya BRT Tshwane – Tshwane Bus Service, A re Yeng BRT Ekurhuleni – Brakpan Bus Service, Harambee BRT Minibus taxis – 60 percent of road-based PT market share
(private ownership)
inefficient, inwardly focussed, not meeting demand … interventions?
ITMP 25
“An integrated and efficient transport system in Gauteng
that promotes sustainable economic growth, skills development and job creation, fosters quality of life, socially includes all communities and preserves the environment.”
25-YEAR INTEGRATED TRANSPORT MASTER PLAN
2013
ITMP25 -TRANSPORT PLANNING INTERVENTIONs
Land Use Development
1. Subsidised housing provision within urban core areas
2. Facilitating local economic development outside the urban core
3. Land use densification in support of public transport
Strategic Public Transport Network
4. Mainstreaming non-motorised transport (NMT)
5. Reinforcing passenger rail network as the backbone of the system
6. Extending the integrated rapid and road-based PT networks
7. Capacity building in the transport industry
Freight Transport
8. Strengthening intermodal freight hubs
Road Transport
9. Travel demand management
10. Continued provincial wide mobility
5 YEAR TRANSPORT OPERATIONAL PLAN
Transport
Authority
Subsidised Bus
Services
Commercialise
Taxi Industry
Travel Demand
Management
Enforcement
Optimum use of
Infrastructure
PRASA Super
Corridor
Freight
Airports
New Roads
Non-motorised
Transport
‘Green’
Transport
Infrastructure
(Optimise)
Operations
(Integrate)
Universal Access
A continuum of institutional options
The Status
Quo
Gauteng Transport Commission
Loose co-ordinatingmechanism that advises
on five functions
A Unitary Transport
Authority for the GCR
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International Conference on Transport Authorities
o Complex constitutional and legal framework – devolution of transport planning functions to provincial and municipal authorities
KEY QUESTIONS
o What is a Transport Authority?o Why is a TA necessary?o What makes TA to be effective?o What renders TA unsustainable?
Case studies o What challenges were encountered and how were they overcome during
the establishment of a TA?o What does it take to move from a TA plan to the implementation of the
plan?
Lessons from Comparable Cities and City Regions
• What cities and city-regions were analysed and why?
– Cities with a similar polycentric make up to that of the GCR
– Cities that have evolved and are evolving their transport
management systems
– Global cities and cities in Africa and in South Africa
• What was researched?
– How these cities/city regions deal with functions of planning,
regulation, financing and contracting?
– Governance structures in these city regions?
– Successes and current challenges?
Lessons - Establishment of Transport Authority for GCR
• When debating institutional arrangements, especially in a complex
legislative framework, tendency is to focus on the best institutional form
– the classical pitfall of “form over function”
• Another pitfall in getting trapped in legal establishment complexities
• Appropriate entry point is to define “case for change” or on public
transport functions that are “falling through the cracks”
• Discussion of functions and appropriate functional allocation rather than
on form should focus the agenda
Lessons - Case for Improved Governance and Management of
Public Transport in GCR
• Strong case exists for the need to introduce norms and standards
for various aspects of public transport operations (vehicles types,
fare management systems, control center operations and transport
information management)
• Case studies - transport governance and management
arrangements of well established and emerging city regions show
that city regions with strong planning and co-ordination of public
transport tend to have better growth and development prospects
Lessons from Comparable City Regions
• Cities/City regions with unitary transport authorities established
structures through legislation, mayoral discretionary powers or
evolutionary processes often spanning a decade or more.
• Cities/City regions with unitary transport authorities rely on
proportional representation systems to provide legitimacy and “buy-in”
to the plans and decisions of these structures.
• Leading transport authorities tend to centralize core functions of
planning, contracting, regulation and funding of public transport.
• Emerging cities/city regions are in an in-between stage with multiple
authorities in one city region all assuming planning, contracting and
regulatory roles for their jurisdictions often resulting in operational
disconnect.
• Even most advanced TA models have their challenges.
Lessons - Principles to Guide TA in GCR
• When considering the improvement of public transport
governance in complex city regions the following principles should
be adhered to:
– co-ownership and co-operative governance
– not undermining the legislative powers and duties of various
spheres of government
– enhancing equity in terms of access to public transport
– facilitating the appropriate allocation of functions
– facilitating adherence to agreed norms and standards
– facilitating better utilization of scarce resources
– unlocking “own funding sources” for public transport
Possible Role of GCR Transport Authority
• Centralised Planning
• Custodian of ITMP25 transport model
• Updating travel demand model
• Co-ordinate data collection and household surveys
• Appoint and retain scarce skills
• Ensure integrated ITP and IDP Plans and provide comments on
functionality thereof
• Common data/information
• Call centre
• Common time tables and schedules
• Ticketing
• Single electronic ticket (AFC) for all modes of PT
• Start with fare-harmonisation
• PT Subsidies
• Best mode for the corridor
• Holistic route planning
• Funding
• Identify and eliminate inefficiencies and duplications in different PT
modes
• Approach Treasury with ‘one-voice’ to motivate for additional funds
for OPEX and CAPEX
• Single point of accountability
• Can ensure ‘best-practice’ lessons are implemented in other PT
modes
• Contracts
• Can negotiate standard PT contracts with industry which could
lead to lower contract prices
• Norms and Standards
• Develop norms and standards for PT industry
• Regulatory Function• Advise local Permit Boards on the allocation of permits for PT
• Enforcement of these Permits
• Single point of accountability and advice
Possible Role of GCR Transport Authority
