Translating Ethekwini's vision of compact city into reality through integrated transportation and land use planning

Paper presented at the 30th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 11-14 July 2011 "Africa on the Move", CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa.Municipalities across South Africa are challenged by the need to develop more sustainable cities and one of the means for doing this is to encourage, and plan for, the development of "compact cities" (i.e. higher density, diverse and public transport oriented and pedestrian oriented cities). All this is in the interests of achieving more efficient, more sustainable and more convenient living environments and more economically productive communities. The Ethekwini Municipality has recently explored an integrated approach to planning for the "compact city" through an urban development corridor project located in its northern metropolitan area called the Northern Urban Development Corridor (NUDC). The project was co-funded by the KwaZulu-Natal Corridor Development Programme and seeks to consolidate the infrastructure and other features of the emerging logistics platform of the City and the country which are located in this area, as well as, to redress the economic and social imbalances of historic settlement in this part of the municipal area. This paper outlines the project process that was followed, sketches the regional development context and highlights the integrated nature of the planning process. It describes the approach taken and strategies introduced by the project team to translate strategic level policy, aimed at achieving more sustainable settlement structure and form (i.e. "compact city"), into more realistic and achievable local level implementation plans. In so doing it outlines the various development and management strategies employed in the NUDC plan to achieve "compact city" objectives whilst focussing on the transportation planning techniques that were employed in the preparation of the plan.This paper was transferred from the original CD ROM created for this conference. The material was published using Adobe Acrobat 10.1.0 Technology. The original CD ROM was produced by Document Transformation Technologies Postal Address: PO Box 560 Irene 0062 South Africa. Tel.: +27 12 667 2074 Fax: +27 12 667 2766 E-mail: nigel@doctech URL: http://www.doctech.co.zaCD sponsored by TRANSNE

Sustainable non-motorised transport comparing South Africa and the Netherlands

Paper presented at the 28th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 6 - 9 July 2009 "Sustainable Transport", CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa.Governments are beginning to realise the importance of non-motorised transportation as part of the overall transport network. They have identified omissions in their respective transport systems and plan to rectify accordingly. SSI, together with their Dutch partner DHV, has developed a systematic, easy-to-implement approach to develop sustainable NMT networks. This paper describes the approach, based on successful Dutch and South African experiences. The approach consists of the following steps: 1. Identify and profile target user group needs in terms of requirements and constraints. 2. Understand the area in terms of demographic, spatial and geographical layout, origins and destinations, weather conditions, etc. 3. Develop a desired NMT network linking the information identified above. 4. Develop a sustainable network by optimally fusing the desired and existing networks. This paper discusses NMT networks and compares South African conditions with experience in The Netherlands where NMT is a successful means of safe transportation. The intention is to highlight the differences in conditions, success factors, as well as adaptability of this approach towards the creation of sustainable NMT systems in South Africa. This paper concludes that South Africa has many opportunities to improve facilities for NMT. The following three are expected to be the most meaningful during the planning stages for the implementation of NMT: During new development planning. Incorporation in rehabilitation projects in identifying NMT networks. The challenges are there and the approach that has been developed can be used as a guideline.This paper was transferred from the original CD ROM created for this conference. The material was published using Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Technology. The original CD ROM was produced by Document Transformation Technologies Postal Address: PO Box 560 Irene 0062 South Africa. Tel.: +27 12 667 2074 Fax: +27 12 667 2766 E-mail: nigel@doctech URL: http://www.doctech.co.z