SUMMARY DOCUMENT OF THE INTEGRATED TRANSPORT PLAN

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1 SUMMARY DOCUMENT OF THE INTEGRATED TRANSPORT PLAN Page i

2 Comprehensive Integrated Transport Plan for the City of Cape Town 2013 to 2018 Summary of Public Participation 1. SUMMARY DOCUMENT OF THE INTEGRATED TRANSPORT PLAN TRANSPORT FOR CAPE TOWN The City of Cape Town is committed to continually improve the transport network for the benefit of all its citizens. The transport network is a crucial element of the daily life of all citizens, as it allows people to travel between home and various destinations and in so doing take part, contribute to and benefit from the economic fabric of the City. The City has recently established a Transport Authority to be the custodian of all transport matters within the City itself and to be the interface with surrounding municipalities and other transport related stakeholders, with single point responsibility for transportation matters for the Cape Town Metropolitan functional area. The Transport Authority called Transport for Cape Town or TCT" for short; introduces a new era for Transportation in Cape Town, focussing human and other resources, skills, and finances to deliver a superior service to the citizens and other partners of the City. TCT, constituted in terms of the National Land Transport Act (NLTA), is mandated by the Act to fulfil a number of functions to allow it to plan and implement proper transport in Cape Town. Included are functions such as administration, planning; communicating; contracting; regulating; monitoring and evaluating; managing; and operating transport infrastructure and services. TCT aims to use these functions entrusted to it, to improve the transport system in an innovative and sustainable manner. These functions, roles and responsibilities have been assigned to various entities in the Constitution of Transport for Cape Town By-law recently approved by the City. TCT is in the process of creating a strong focussed professional team that will coordinate the strategic intent in the City. RESPONSIBILITY OF FORMULATING THE ITP In terms of section 36 (1) of the National Land Transport Act (No 5, 2009) (NLTA), all Planning Authorities must prepare and submit to the MEC an Integrated Transport Plan for their respective area for a five year period and must update the Plan as frequently as prescribed. The Constitution of Transport for Cape Town, 2013, provides that TCT shall prepare an ITP, for each five year period, and shall ensure that the ITP is aligned to the corresponding Integrated Development Plan (IDP) for the City. Page ii

3 One of the first tasks allocated to TCT, in terms of its Constitution and as a type 1 Planning Authority in terms of the NLTA, is to prepare a comprehensive Integrated Transport Plan (ITP) for the planning horizon of 2013 to PROCESS FOLLOWED IN COMPILING THE ITP This Integrated Transport Plans complies with the requirements of the national Regulations for the preparation of Integrated Transport Plans published by the Minister of Transport in terms of the minimum content and form. The ITP has as its foundation objectives that have been formulated in terms of the nine functions of TCT as well as the key actions that are required to achieve the objectives. The process that has been followed in compiling the ITP was to prepare realistic and tangible strategies and plans for the provision and improvement of the integrated transport network that not only comply with the minimum Requirements, but also provide a platform and mandate for TCT to carry out its functions and duties. The following figure illustrates the relationship between the key components of the ITP as set out in the Regulations. Figure Error! No text of specified style in document.-1: Interrelationship between the ITP, OLS and IPTN METHODOLOGY The methodology that was followed in the preparation of the ITP, was guided by the objectives of TCT and the national Requirements and has been based on sound research of Page iii

4 the status quo of the planning and provision of integrated transport services and facilities within the City of Cape Town. From the outcome of this research key needs for the improvement and expansion of the transport network have been identified and appropriate measures and strategies to serve the current and future demand have been proposed. OVERVIEW OF THE INTEGRATED TRANSPORT PLAN The ITP states the long, medium and short term intent of the City to improve transport in the City in a practical and realistic way through the development of an integrated transport network. In the interim, the focus is on the development of the public transport part of the network, whilst not neglecting the rest of the transport network. The ITP is also the plan that responds to the transportation requirements of the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) which is the principal strategic planning instrument of the City. The IDP developed five key pillars: Opportunity City, Safe City, Caring City, Inclusive City, and Well-run City which provides guidance to the development of the ITP. The purpose of the ITP is to communicate to its citizens and other stakeholders such as the Province of the Western Cape and the National Department of Transport how it intends to plan, implement and operate Transport in a transparent and accountable manner, so as to improve the transport system for the benefit of all its citizens. REASONS FOR THE INTEGRATED TRANSPORT PLAN The intention of the ITP is to provide guidance to TCT in the implementation of its functions and responsibilities. The ITP provides practical and achievable strategies and plans for the achievement of the TCT objectives and is intended for use by internal and external roleplayers. SUMMARY OF ITP CONTENT The ITP document commences with a Vision for Transport in Cape Town, which is described in terms of nine objectives that must be met to attain this vision. It is important to understand the prevailing context from which the transport system is planned and will be developed. The Transport Register (or Status Quo) chapter describes both the demographic and socioeconomic realities surrounding the transport system, as well as the attributes of the existing transport system. The broader developmental goals for the City of Cape Town is described in terms of strategic policy documents, including the Integrated Development Plan, OneCape 2040, as well as the Economic Growth and Social Development Strategies. This section of the document is concluded with a Needs Assessment, which highlights the areas of interventions to move the present to a desirable future. The next section of the ITP deals with the strategies of how to address the needs in a pragmatic and structured manner. It starts with a Public Transport Operations Strategy, which builds on the theme of Public Transport First in Cape Town. This section of the ITP houses the revised Operating Licensing Strategy, or OLS. Thereafter the Infrastructure Strategy describes the process of providing the physical environment in which the operations will be performed. The next chapter deals with a Travel Demand Management Strategy to Page iv

5 optimise the utilisation of infrastructure and operations, followed by a framework for a Freight Logistics Strategy, which will be developed in greater detail in the medium term. This section of the document concludes with a range of equally important, but more specialised strategies, including strategies for Sustainable Transport, Universal Access, Public Transport Law Enforcement, Transit Oriented Development and a Passenger Rail Plan, to name but some. The last section of the document deals with the Funding Strategy that is required to implement the Plan and its Strategies This culminates in a list of programmes and projects to which budgets are attached and contracts can be awarded. COMMUNICATION AND CONSULTATION PROCESS The development of the ITP has been informed by a number of communication and consultative processes including: Meetings to prepare technical inputs where all internal stakeholders have been invited, Technical sessions where specific topics have been debated and discussed, An intercept survey with over participants that has provided input into travel preferences, Consultations with formal Council structures and Committees, A formal public participation process. The above processes have followed the City of Cape Town: Guidelines on Public Participation and outcome has been documented in a public participation report that sets out the key issues and needs that were raised. These needs have informed the planning process and were included in the appropriate sections of the ITP. Page v