Integrated Transport Plan.pdf - Durban

No.16 To facilitate public transport operator empowerment enabling
operators to reposition in the industry and participate in
tendered contracts.
No.17 To reduce system costs and subsidy while providing an
acceptable level of service to all sectors of the community.
No.18 To recognise the need for subsidy but to change the basis
for subsidy from operator and system-deficit subsidy to
targeted user-side subsidy which does not support and
entrench long distance trips but addresses basic social
needs of various groups in selected locations.
No.19 To promote integration and co-ordination between all modes
on a system-wide basis to achieve:-
� economies of scale
� reduced costs
� increased load factors
No. 20 To promote infilling and densification along public transport
corridors and major public transport routes within acceptable
environmental limits.
No.21 To direct employment opportunities, mixed land use and
high-density residential development into the high-utilisation
public transport corridors, and nodes.
No.22 To discourage urban sprawl where public transport services
are inadequate, including careful evaluation of any major
trip-generating development outside the urban edge.
No.23 To promote Durban CBD and the South Durban Basin as
two dominant nodes of transport in the strategic North-South
Corridor.
No.24 To encourage re-development around stations and major
mode interchanges in the form of major trip generating land
use and informal and emerging economic activities.
No.25 To steer public investment for secondary schools, hospitals,
clinics, police stations and various essential social services
towards development nodes along significant transport
corridors.
Empowerment
User-side
subsidy
PT Service
integration
PT / land-use
integration
eThekwini Integrated Transport Plan
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