A traffic congestion management plan for Gauteng?

Abstract

Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Southern African Transport Conference 8-11 July 2013 "Transport and Sustainable Infrastructure", CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa.With traffic congestion acknowledged to be a major problem in our cities, much thought has been given to ways of managing it. It is neither desirable to focus on a sectoral approach to implementing congestion management measures; nor is it sustainable to implement a variety of Transport Demand Management (TDM); Transport Supply Management (TSM); and Land-Use Management (LUM) measures, on a piecemeal basis. To overcome the strictly sectoral application of such measures, Integrated Development Plans (IDPs) have the scope to integrate supply, demand and land-use management measures, as they have a strategic position within regional planning that coordinates and aligns many sectoral functions at local and district level. This paper highlights the need for the development of a Traffic Congestion Management Plan (TCMP) as a component of the South African planning system’s delivering balanced packages of measures. It also considers a TCMP’s likely structure, and examines the way in which to focus sectoral integration and alignment more directly in the management of traffic congestion in a sustainable manner.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.zamv201