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of low er demand. The sustainability of this supporting netw ork will be improved
through the optimal deploy ment of modes on these supporting netw orks and
corridors. The deployment of transport modes w ill occur according to w here each
mode is able to provide the most economic level of utilisation, given the density and
patterns of demand in a corridor. Government’s role is to set clear rules for service
provision and competition in the strategic and supporting netw orks, to provide
incentives for firms to innovate and upgrade customer segments that are lagging
behind and to facilitate the upgrading of the skills and capacity in the system to meet
customer needs.
(c) NationalLand Transport Act, 2009 (Act 5 of 2009)
This Act provides measures necessary to give effect to the national policy concerning
thefirst phases of the process for transforming and restructuring South Africa’s land
transport system initiated by the National Land Transport Transition Act, 2000 and to
achieve a smooth transition to the new system being a system applicable nationally.
Chapter 2 of this Act prescribes those policies, principles, requirements, guidelines,
framew orks, norms and standards that necessarily must be the same for all the
provinces of South Africa.This Act will place most public transport decisions in the
hands of the low est level of government, namely that of local authorities and
metros.(The final section of this chapter contains a discussion about the role of
municipalities in terms of the NationalLand Transport Act(Act 5 of 2009)).
(d) NationalLand Transport Transition Act, 2000 (Act 22 of 2000)
The National Land Transport Transition Act (NLTTA) has a Chapter (2) that is binding
nationally and a Chapter (3) that can be replaced by provincial legislation, w hich has
largely been done in Gauteng. The Act contains guiding policy principles that are
binding nationally and in general strives to shift the transport system from being
supply-driven (by transport operators) to being demand-driven (planned and
implemented by government in response to customer needs). It creates the
framew ork for mandatory transport planning, making each municipality a planning
authority, required to prepare a variety of plans depending on various conditions.
The main responsibility for service delivery in land transport is placed at the municipal
sphere of government. Provinces must prepare PLTFs, and the national minister must
prepare a NLTSF. ITPs form a component of municipal Integrated Development
Plans. All plans must cover five-year periods, and be updated annually.
If municipalities w ish to, and if they satisfy certain criteria, they have the option of
setting up transport authorities (w hich can be a joint body among more than one
municipality), institutional structures enabling more focused service delivery.
The Act also provided for the appointment of Transport Registrars and for the
provincial Operating Licencing Boards and appeal structures.
The NLTTA also provides for the formalisation of the taxi industry by providing for
registration, and for the regulation of road-based public transport through route-based
operating licences being required for operating public transport. The Act also
provides for regulating competition for subsidised road-based public transport, to be
handled on the basis of competitive tendering for government-specified contracts.
Contracts may be subsidised, negotiated or commercial. The Act also lays the basis
for taxi industry recapitalisation, and for law enforcement of transport.
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