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Optimised transport systems plays multi-purpose growth and development functions and roles in any area or region. When transport systems are optimised, integrated and efficient, such transport systems have the innate capacity and capability to support the flow of goods, labour and increased mobilities. In Gauteng, the apartheid manufactured “spaces and mobility lines” have been credited with various scales of transport, growth and development inequalities. Well over 25 years, since the dawn of the 1994 new democracy in South Africa, shifts in transport, spatial planning and development have made significant but arguably “microscopic gains” in seeking to reverse and advance new spatial scales and forms of transformative development. This paper, based on Gauteng province showcases the transport realities and challenges in Johannesburg, making use of case studies from low income peripheral located settlements. The recommendations resonate with the need for decisive systems and the “planting” of an adaptive, robust and flexible steering mechanism in order to transform the transport geography of Gauteng province. The central question discussed revolves on whether new transport geography or the old transport geography is being (re)created and (re)imagined in Gauteng province.
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Chakwizira, J., Bikam, P., Adeboyejo, T.A. (2020). Transport Realities and Challenges for Low Income Peripheral Located Settlements in Gauteng Province: Are We Witnessing the Genesis of a New Transport Order or Consolidation of the Old Transport Order?. In: Stanton, N. (eds) Advances in Human Factors of Transportation. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 964. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20503-4_56
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