Chapter 11 - Sedibeng District Municipality

1.2 Status and Jurisdiction
The previous update of the SedibengDistrictMunicipality’s (SDM) Integrated Transport
Plan (ITP) w as completed in May 2004 and based on Current Public Transport
Records (CPTR) data compiled in 2001.This current District Integrated Transport Plan
(DITP) is the officially Council adopted Transport Plan for Sedibeng applicable to the
planning period 2008 to 2013.
This DITPs complies as a minimum w ith the requirements set out in Department of
Transport’s (DoT) Schedule, titled “Integrated Transport Plans: Minimu m
Requirements in terms of the National Land Transport Transition Act”, dated
November 2007. For the purposes of preparing this Transport Plan, the SDM is
regarded as being a type tw o planning authority hence the requirement to prepare a
District Integrated Transport Plan and not a Comprehensive Integrated Transport
Plan. The minimum frequency of preparation and updating of this DITP is a total
overhaul every 5 th year, and an update annually in synchronisation w ith the IDP.The
DITP contains a long-term component, w hich identifies the long-term vision and
objectives for the transport system in the region, and the strategy how to develop the
transport system over time to achieve the set objectives. The long-term strategy can,
how ever, only be achieved over time and in an incremental fashion and, therefore,
the ITPs must include an action plan specifying the feasible initiatives / projects to be
implemented. The DITP remains a strategic document and hence does not contain a
description of the details of projects.
In areas other than those covered by the National Integrated Public Transport
Netw ork Projects, the planning authorities (such as the SDM) remains to be
responsible for the preparation of a full Current Public Transport Record (CPTR) and
Operating Licence Strategy (OLS) for such areas, and a Rationalisation Plan
(Ratplan) w here there are subsidised services in the area as part of their ITP. CPTRs
and OLSs must not be prepared at both district and local levels as this w ill lead to
duplication. Thus only one CPTR and one OLS is required for any particular
geographical area.
FIGURE 1.3 show s Gauteng and the SDM jurisdiction. FIGURE 1.4 contains a
locality map of the SDM’s area of jurisdiction to contextually visualise the study area.
The SDM comprises ofthree Local Municipalities (LMs):
• Emfuleni LM (commercial nodes are Vereeniging and Vanderbijlpark);
• Lesedi LM (commercial node is Heidelberg); and
• Midvaal LM (commercial node is Meyerton).
SDM DITP, 2008 to 2013 4 31 Aug 2010