Sustainable transportation through enabling partnerships

Abstract

Transport is one of the biggest opportunities for economic development, whilst simultaneously being a large contributor to climate change. Urbanisation and auto-based urban sprawl create environmental and economic challenges, including traffic congestion, Greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution. The public sector is often hindered by numerous bottlenecks to achieve sustainability, leading to the formation of partnerships to achieve complementary investments for improved sustainability. The objective of the paper is to assess barriers for sustainability in South Africa and provide innovative ideas for improving sustainability through partnerships. Through desktop analysis, several issues hindering sustainability were highlighted, and innovative ideas were then selected to encourage partnership formation. For sustainability to be met, an entity should be established to facilitate partnerships, embrace innovations, provide incentives to attract private capital and ensure effective infrastructure is in place.