Abstract:
The Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (AsgiSA) identified South
Africa’s freight logistics challenges as among the key binding constraints on the country’s
growth aspirations. The research presented here points to the structural imbalance
between road and rail freight transport as one of the key contributors to this state of
affairs. Most long-distance corridor transport has been captured by road. However, longdistance
transport is a market segment that is very suitable for intermodal transportation:
rail is utilised for the high-density, long-distance component and road for the feeder and
distribution services at the corridor end points. A market segmentation approach is
developed to identify the corridors and industries that are natural candidates for such
solutions, thereby paving the way for role-players and stakeholders to initiate a dialogue
on the development of appropriate solutions
