Evaluation of the Phase 2A IRT Network in respect to the Principles of Transport Justice
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description: The South African Transport system is inherently designed on transport inequities and spatial segregation. This is still evident in many cities and has not been completely addressed since the prior apartheid regime. Many lower income groups are still residing on the city outskirts, far away from potential job opportunities, including the central business district. These groups are disproportionately affected by the long travel times and consequently higher travel costs, resulting in a large percentage of their time and income being spent on transport. A high-quality public transport system with a broad catchment area is required to increase the access to opportunities, in an attempt to address the lingering inequalities of the past apartheid regime. There has been a focus in South African cities on bus rapid transit (BRT) as the future of public transport (PT) trunk services. Three key features that distinguish BRT systems from conventional bus systems are the improved infrastructure, operations, and technology. The key research objectives of this dissertation were:  To determine appropriate measures of accessibility in South Africa;  To identify a suitable accessibility threshold that can be used for comparison purposes; and  To evaluate the effectiveness of Cape Town's Integrated Rapid Transit (IRT) Phase 2A route in terms of transportation planning based on the principles of justice and the identified accessibility threshold. This study has focused on the approved Phase 2A route of Cape Town's Integrated Rapid Transit (IRT) system, which is currently being built, and did not analyse Phase 1 (which is already built) or Phases 3 and 4 (which are still planned for the future). As such, the study area consisted of the suburbs in the immediate vicinity of the proposed route and not the whole of Cape Town, namely, the Southern Suburbs and Metro Southeast. Due to the rail line not having a direct east-west route between these areas, the study focused on the road-base…
abstract: The South African Transport system is inherently designed on transport inequities and spatial segregation. This is still evident in many cities and has not been completely addressed since the prior apartheid regime. Many lower income groups are still residing on the city outskirts, far away from potential job opportunities, including the central business district. These groups are disproportionately affected by the long travel times and consequently higher travel costs, resulting in a large percentage of their time and income being spent on transport. A high-quality public transport system with a broad catchment area is required to increase the access to opportunities, in an attempt to address the lingering inequalities of the past apartheid regime. There has been a focus in South African cities on bus rapid transit (BRT) as the future of public transport (PT) trunk services. Three key features that distinguish BRT systems from conventional bus systems are the improved infrastructure, operations, and technology. The key research objectives of this dissertation were:  To determine appropriate measures of accessibility in South Africa;  To identify a suitable accessibility threshold that can be used for comparison purposes; and  To evaluate the effectiveness of Cape Town's Integrated Rapid Transit (IRT) Phase 2A route in terms of transportation planning based on the principles of justice and the identified accessibility threshold. This study has focused on the approved Phase 2A route of Cape Town's Integrated Rapid Transit (IRT) system, which is currently being built, and did not analyse Phase 1 (which is already built) or Phases 3 and 4 (which are still planned for the future). As such, the study area consisted of the suburbs in the immediate vicinity of the proposed route and not the whole of Cape Town, namely, the Southern Suburbs and Metro Southeast. Due to the rail line not having a direct east-west route between these areas, the study focused on the road-base…
author: Parker, Taariq
keywords: Civil Engineering
date published: 2023
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:22:58Z
provider: University of Cape Town
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Department of Civil Engineering

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