The first/last mile experience of students commuting between the Metrorail and Gautrain stations and the University of Pretoria's main campus in Hatfield

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dc.contributor.advisor Devenish, Paul
dc.contributor.coadvisor Toffa, Tariq
dc.contributor.postgraduate Summerton, Tayla Ashleigh
dc.date.accessioned 2024-02-01T14:01:43Z
dc.date.available 2024-02-01T14:01:43Z
dc.date.created 2024-04-05
dc.date.issued 2023-09
dc.description Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2023. en_US
dc.description.abstract Various strategies have been implemented in South Africa to negate historical spatial injustices, such as the Gautrain and Metrorail train systems. These systems are envisioned to facilitate geographic desegregation and access to basic rights such as education. However, hard infrastructural systems generate forms of inequality that hinder the intended purpose of the system. There is currently a gap in literature on the experience of student’s commuting to and from places of education in South Africa and the first/last mile of the daily journey. The study uses the grounded theory approach to achieve a thorough and layered understanding of quantitative and qualitative data of the study area, Hatfield. By using first/last mile spatial components and factors identified in literature, hard and soft infrastructural interactions are investigated along predominant first/last mile routes to discover factors that hinder or facilitate the journey. This is critical to study as commuting to places of education is the second most common reason people in the country commute. The study revealed that there is spatial dysfunction within the urban transportation system on various scales for student’s commuting to and from the University of Pretoria. This included injustices with regard to train systems accessibility, efficiency, reliability, and affordability, unsafe spaces of movement, and a lack of connection to the urban environment along first/last miles. These spatial components and factors demonstrate nuances of inequality. However, it is also evident that there are spaces of hard and soft infrastructure that negate spatial exclusion and isolation which should be used as examples for future urban developments. These spaces are essential to identify and understand in a developing country emerging from past spatial injustices. en_US
dc.description.availability Unrestricted en_US
dc.description.degree MArch (Prof) en_US
dc.description.department Architecture en_US
dc.description.faculty Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology en_US
dc.description.sdg SDG-10:Reduces inequalities en_US
dc.identifier.citation * en_US
dc.identifier.doi 10.25403/UPresearchdata.24989619 en_US
dc.identifier.other A2024 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/94232
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher University of Pretoria
dc.rights © 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.
dc.subject UCTD en_US
dc.subject First/last mile en_US
dc.subject Transport infrastructure en_US
dc.subject SDG-10: Reduced inequalities
dc.subject Sustainable development goals (SDGs)
dc.subject.other SDG-10: Reduced inequalities
dc.subject.other Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-10
dc.title The first/last mile experience of students commuting between the Metrorail and Gautrain stations and the University of Pretoria's main campus in Hatfield en_US
dc.type Mini Dissertation en_US


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