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Title: SHORT- TERM ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT STRATEGY


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SHORT- TERM ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT STRATEGY
Department of Transport
Presentation to the Joint Monitoring Committee
on Improvement of Quality of Life and Status of
Children, Youth and Disabled Persons, 07
September 2007
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Outline of the presentation
Department of Transport
  • Background - legislative directives
  • Processes and Consultations
  • Challenges
  • Objectives and principles
  • Target group
  • Strategic interventions KPAs
  • Governance Funding
  • Way-forward

3
Background
Department of Transport
  • Legislations, Policies Strategy Documents
  • Chapter 2 of the Constitution, 1996 on Bill of
    Rights
  • Sec 9 sub-section(3) Equality , Sec 10
    Human dignity
  • White Paper on National Transport Policy, 1996
  • MSA-Action Agenda, 1999.
  • National Land Transport Transitional Act, 2000
  • National Land Transport Strategic Framework
  • Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair
    Discrimination Act, 2000
  • White Paper on Integrated National Disability
    Strategy, 1997

4
Consultations
Department of Transport
  • Consultation process deptsOSDP, Social
    Development, Stats SA, Home Affairs, Operators
    SARCC, Shosholoza Meyl, Metrorail,Sekuma, Putco
    Metropolitan municipalities Ethekhwini,
    Tshwane
  • Pilot projects Recommendations
  • DFID study on technological vehicular designs
    Recommended local bus designs DPTA , SAFCD Taxi
  • Integration of governmental processes HANIS
    project
  • Road to Safety Strategy Arrive Alive Awareness

5
Consultation
Department of Transport
  • Data collection to determine the extent of needs
    and public T gaps within the current system
  • Undertake a review and strategy development
    exercise in metros
  • Map out the strategy and identify strategic
    options for implementation
  • Review international responses and align with
    local practical actions
  • Develop a detailed strategic plan for further
    roll-outs
  • Integrate actions and policy directions from
    transport structures LTCC, RTCC, COTO, MINCOM

6
Challenges
Department of Transport
  • Lack of policy on Accessible transport
  • Lack of commitment by politicians, heads of
    departments, institutions, civil society
  • Lack of capacity and technical skills at local
    government level
  • Lack of common definition on disabled people

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Challenges
Department of Transport
  • Current structural design
  • Land-use /development planning and transport
    planning
  • Physical infrastructure and interior of the
    vehicles
  • Implement Non-motorized transport planning
    guidelines
  • Waterways and airline services to make provision
    for accessible facilities
  • Operational challenges
  • Transport services not yet demand-responsive
  • Dedicated transport services not fully meeting
    the needs of the disabled people, and has proved
    to be very expensive
  • No proper coordination with other modes

8
Challenges
Department of Transport
  • Lack of data categories of disability and
    geographical location, need i.t.o.modal split
  • Inadequate funding for a fully-integrated
    transport system

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Challenges cont
Department of Transport
  • Additional Operational challenges
  • Municipal buses not operative on Sundays
  • Public address systems and communication aids
    billboards and audible announcements
  • Attitudinal challenges both drivers and public
  • Technical and mechanical skills of retrofitted
    lifts
  • Lack of data for planning and decision-making
    purposes
  • Inadequate funding hence re-prioritization of
    plans and a phased-approach

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Objectives Principles
Department of Transport
  • Objectives
  • To integrate accessible transport into the public
    transport system
  • To promote the provision of accessible transport
    across all modes
  • To provide a barrier-free public transport
    service and related infrastructure
  • Principles
  • Accessibility ( universal access),
    affordability, pragmatism, incremental
    implementation, integration, empowerment
    coorperation

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Target group
Department of Transport
  • 3 Categories of vulnerable groups
  • Life cycle passengers children, pregnant women,
    temporary disabled people, elderly
  • Passengers with sensory impairment
  • Signage passengers
  • Breakdown of people with disability
  • Four groups physical disability, sensory
    impaired, intellectual disability and others
    physically frail due to old age, chronic
    diseases, polio or similar disadvantage,
    illiterate, foreigners, etc

12
Interventions
Department of Transport
  • Spatial targeting and transport planning
  • strategic accessible network and corridors
  • Reform the current structural design(fully
    accessible pedestrian networks linking common
    trip origins and destinations with the accessible
    PT route).
  • Operations and technological designsAll land
    based public transport modes are being targeted
    passengerrail, buses, mini-taxis in the short
    -term

13
Interventions
Department of Transport
  • Discussions on water transport and airlines
    service providers
  • Capacity building with TETA and organisations of
    /for disabled people
  • Marketing and information management system

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Travel Chain
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Interventions KPAs
Department of Transport
  • Complementary interventions
  • Adoption of Accessible T Strategy by MINCOM
  • Implementation of at least 2 accessible transport
    corridors by municipality As by end of 2004/05
    financial year
  • Implementation of at least 2 accessible
    transport corridors by municipality Bs by end of
    2006/07
  • Full access to refurbished railway stations,
    interchanges, pedestrian environment by 2005/06
  • Improvements to all elements of travel chain at
    Key accessible corridors by 2006/07

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Interventions KPAs..
Department of Transport
  • Low cost modifications, i.e Class 1
    improvementsall land T modes ( new bus
    contracts 2003)( class1 2 on taxi fleet 2005)
    (improvements of rail passenger transport
    facilities for short and long distance by 2005)
  • Upgrading of old facilities and building of all
    new facilities ito Road maintenance programme
    (2005)
  • Continued support of dedicated transport
    services(ongoing
  • Installation of public address systems at key
    accessible corridors and major public
    interchanges(2005)
  • Research and pilot appropriate technologies in
    other areas, including Rural municipality C
    (2004)

18
Interventions KPAs
Department of Transport
  • Revise NMT infrastructure planning
    guidelines(2004)
  • Increased accessibility and easy mobility to
    public transport and
  • Improved visibility of public transport services
    for passengers with disability
  • Improved participation of people with disability
    in social and economic mainstream empowerment
  • Increased funding to support accessible transport
    programmes

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Governance
Department of Transport
  • Commitment of resources by all stakeholders
  • Institutional support to implementing authorities
  • Effective communication and coordination
    mechanism
  • Improve operational efficiency internal
    transport system developmental effectiveness
  • Awareness programme targeting the drivers and
    abled-passengers
  • Establishing and oversight body and law
    enforcement

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Funding sources
Department of Transport
  • Infrastructure grants (DORA) and equitable shares
  • Bus subsidies and passenger rail funds
  • Public transport infrastructure and Systems Grant
  • DoTs budget on the taxi recapitalization
    programme
  • Rail Safety Regulator financial support
  • Partnerships
  • Education on Arrive Alive DoT and Provincial
    support
  • Cost-sharing in line with identified
    responsibilities Provinces, Municipalities and
    some of the operators

21
Way Forward
Department of Transport
  • Integration of Key Performance Areas into the
    Public Transport Strategys Action plan
  • Coordinate implementation processes through the
    internal and external stakeholders task team
    which was formed in July 2007
  • Roll-out the accessible transport in all modes
  • Complementary processes
  • SARCC is implementing accessible strategy

22
Way Forward
Department of Transport
  • PT subsidization / funding mechanisms
    streamlined
  • Use the costing model on accessible transport for
    transport planning and integrated
    network/corridor development
  • Develop an accessible transport policy

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Thank you
Department of Transport
The End
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