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    Investigating modal integration of public transport and non-motorised transport in the City of Johannesburg: A case of the Roodepoort CBD
    (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2024) Prince, Matshika Lindokuhle; Karam, Aly
    This study explored the integration of non-motorized transport (NMT) with public transport in the City of Johannesburg, particularly the Roodepoort CBD. The research investigates the status of NMT infrastructure and public transport services in the city, identifying gaps and opportunities for integration. A comprehensive literature review was conducted to understand the factors influencing successful integration and to highlight best practices from other cities worldwide. The study examined the causes of transport fragmentation and emphasizes the importance of addressing these challenges to achieve seamless integration and analyses key enabling factors for successful integration, such as infrastructure planning and design, intermodal facilities, collaboration and coordination, policy, and regular support. Case studies of successful integration of public transport systems Globally are presented to gain practical insights for the implementation of integration strategies. Primary data was collected through interviews with key stakeholders and commuters and field observations were conducted to assess the existing NMT infrastructure and its integration with public transport. Convenience and purposive sampling methods were employed to select participants for the interviews and the data collected is analysed through thematic analysis, allowing for the identification of key themes and pattens relevant to the integration of NMT and public transport in the Roodepoort CBD. The findings of this study reveal that there is a possibility and opportunity for modal integration to occur within the Roodepoort CBD. However, there are various factors that need to be addressed such as the safety and security of pedestrians and the enforcement of regulations in terms of non-motorised transport facilities being used for other means such as street vending. The study concludes by providing recommendations to support the facilitation of this integration of NMT and public transport in the Roodepoort CBD.
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    Governance of infrastructure provision in informal settlements: the electrification of unproclaimed areas in the City of Johannesburg
    (2022) Chikomwe, Savory
    An increasing number of informal settlements in South Africa are receiving interim services for extended periods while awaiting permanent upgrading or housing solutions. This thesis explores the complex governance arrangements and challenges that arise around the provision of basic services using City of Johannesburg as a case study, with a focus on three ‘unproclaimed’ informal settlements that have undergone electrification. These are Stjwetla, Protea South and Slovo Park. The three cases shed light on the modes of infrastructure governance that characterize informal settlement upgrading as practiced in the City of Johannesburg and to some extent in South Africa more generally. Formal grid electrification in the case study settlements is juxtaposed by other temporary basic infrastructure provisioning in a complicated socio-political, institutional and governance context. The inquiry adopted a qualitative methodology. The case studies of the three settlements and the City of Johannesburg were compiled through an extensive literature and document review and indepth interviews with key informants. These spanned community leadership, political representatives, experts and officials in municipal, provincial and national departments and stateowned entities. The thesis finds ambivalence, disconnections, misalignments and contradictions in the basic infrastructure provision and upgrading processes within the City of Johannesburg and between the City and central government departments. This was accentuated by the role of the national state-owned electricity company Eskom in one of the three settlements. The thesis finds that the prolonged temporary status of the informal settlements promotes contestations at various levels, including ligation. In the absence of progress towards permanent upgrading, investment in grid electrification ambiguously signals permanence even where there is no state intention to upgrade in situ. Within communities, this confusion contributes to tension while also triggering consolidation and in-migration. Differing interpretations across entities of the state about the role of grid electrification in informal settlement trajectories open up space for temporary electrification ultimately to lead towards the pragmatic adoption of permanent in situ upgrading. This notwithstanding, literature reviewed for this thesis points instead toward the necessity for a turn to off-grid electrification technologies for informal settlements.