Abstract:
South Africa is a developing country located in the southern part of the African continent. It comprises of nine provinces, eight metropolitan municipalities, forty-four district and two hundred and twenty-six local municipalities. The population is estimated at 59,308, 690 million people.
The road infrastructure in SA is grouped into national, provincial and local roads. There are well developed national roads and some less well maintained provincial roads. The national routes in SA are trunk roads and freeways which connect towns, cities, provinces and neighboring countries in the southern part of Africa. The freeway system comprises of the N1 to N19. In addition, some of the major provincial routes are cutting across South Africa. Some of the provincial and local roads are underdeveloped.
The challenges that South Africa are facing include the high number of traffic crashes and traffic casualties, the inability of the traffic authorities to counteract violations due to the fact that the Traffic Management System (TMS) had not been properly implemented decades ago. This seems to suggest, firstly, that SA cannot succeed to reduce road traffic casualties by 50% by 2030 and, secondly, there is a lack of a Holistically, Integrated, Multi-disciplinary Scientific Management Model (HIMSMM) approach to be implemented, to manage, police, educate, transport and road traffic safety to reduce traffic fatalities rates by 2030 by 50% in line with the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety Programme (UNDARSP) and the National Development Plan (NDP).
The aim of this paper is to discuss the implementation of the HIMSMM as the sub-system of the TMS under the Transport System (TS) to improve the traffic safety management system and to reduce road traffic casualties by 50% by 2030 in line with the UNDARSP and the NDP. The HIMSMM focuses on sixteen (16) (functional areas) as possible solution as to reduce crashes and fatalities by 2030.
