Transport Authorities eThekwini Transport Authority Making a difference for sustainability Notes

Transport Authorities

eThekwini Transport Authority

Making a difference for sustainability

Notes

Vital QuestionCan eTA make a real difference?

Transport Authorities (TAs) are internationally considered to be one of the most effective institutional arrangements to deal with the complex transport issues in urban areas.

Four Strategic Transport thrusts for eThekwini

1. Prioritising PT over private transport

2. Promoting PT – attractive and efficient

3. Spatial restructuring

4. Safety

ST1. Prioritising PT over private transport

Key Issue: low occupancy private car usage is the single greatest threat to sustainability of the transport system, having a great impact on the environment.

The challenge in eThekwini

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The challenge cont.

Year Pvt car Person Trips(trend)

PT Person Trips (trend)

1996 183 486 191 092

2005 199 604 183 140

2010 241 148 182 075

2020 298 898 177 616

Use of PT

Strategy: restrain pvt car usageYear Private Cars

(with intervention)Private Cars

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1996 183 486 183 486

2005 191 229 199 604

2010 209 129 241 148

2020 230 583 298 898

- Car restraint measures

- Limited road development (focus mainly on bottlenecks and access)

Institutional response

Head of eTA

Roads

Design

PT ops Strategic planning

Full Capital roads budget & joint agreement on maintenance

priorities

Public Transport Authorities at a disadvantage

Transport planning

ST2. Make PT more efficient and attractive

Transport trajectory

Current

Goal

OPPORTUNITIESPolicy & Leg.TechnologySystem EfficienciesSpatial RestructuringTA

•THREATS TO SYSTEM•Escalating subsidies•Declining service levels•Dilapidated infrastructure (fixed and rolling stock)•Rapid motorisation•Violence•Entrenched apartheid land-use structure – urban sprawl•Poor Accident Record• Marginalised Special Users

Some of the Causes:

Wasteful duplication

Sub-optimal mode deployment

Destructive competition

Apartheid legacy

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The efficiency challenge

The challenge cont.

Utilisation: Rail – 20%

Bus – 30%

Taxi – 83%

Subsidy savings:

Current subsidy Savings from restructuring

R450 mill pa R180 mill pa

Vehicle ages: Rail closure in less than 15 years time

Taxi and bus serious lack of investment

Strategy: Rationalise and Restructure

Rail – currently with National

Subsidised bus contracts – currently with Province

eTAOptimal mode deployment

Remove duplicated services (especially subsidised)

Intermodalism and integration

Investigate low volume rail lines

Devolution

Institutional response

Head of eTA

Roads PT ops Strategic planning

Administer Bus contracts

Better than co-ordinating committees

PT system planningFuture

Municipal OLB

Rail function

Strategy: Make PT more convenient

Rail – currently with National

Subsidised bus contracts – currently with Provincial

eTAIntegration and intermodalism

Info systems

Through ticketing

etc

Devolution

Institutional response

Head of eTA

Roads PT ops Strategic planning

Administer Bus contracts

Better than co-ordinating committees

PT system planningFuture

Municipal OLB

Rail function

ST3: Spatial restructuring

The challenge…

Sprawl reduces PT efficiency and poorly located low income housing projects impose a high, perpetual subsidy burden on transport.

Result:

By moving low income housing closer to work, the higher land costs are recovered in 2 to 7 years

by the savings in subsidy.

The challenge cont.

Strategy: densification of nodes and corridors

Key concern: Influence the location of low income housing by subsidising

increased land costs

Institutional response

Governing Body

(3 Exco members)

Metro Exco

Housing Dept (budget)

Rail & bus devolution with subsidy

Subsidy savings

ST4: Safety

Road safety a key issue: SA has one of the poorest accidents records in the world.

Institutional response

Head of eTA

Roads PT ops Strategic planning

Responsible to co-ordinate 4 E’s and implement Road

Safety Plan

Road safety unit

Conclusion

The eTA has positioned itself to meet the key transport challenges in SA Cities.

The hard work is still ahead…