Toward spatial justice : the spatial equity effects of a toll road in Cape Town, South Africa
Date
2015
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Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota
Abstract
The present study sets out to provide an ex ante insight into the equity effects of a toll charge on the traffic diversions and geographical accessibility of work locations in the Cape Town metropolitan region, South Africa. Based on a static traffic assignment model and aggregate accessibility measures, computed in a GIS environment, the effects of a toll were estimated for different income categories for both a reference scenario and two toll scenarios. The findings indicate that particularly low-income commuters will divert to alternative routes. However, the results also indicate that the introduction of a toll will only have a limited impact on geographical accessibility. Nevertheless, because particularly low-income commuters are likely to divert to alternative routes, a toll should maybe not be levied on the road toward spatial justice without revenue redistribution or additional investment in the public transport system.
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CITATION: Van Dijk, J. T., Krygsman, S. & De Jong, T. 2015. Toward spatial justice : the spatial equity effects of a toll road in Cape Town, South Africa. Journal of Transport and Land Use, 8(3):95–114, doi:10.5198/jtlu.2015.555.
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The original publication is available at https://www.jtlu.org
Keywords
Toll roads -- South Africa, Transportation, Automotive -- Taxation, Transportation -- South Africa -- Cape Town Region, Geographic information systems, Spatial equity
Citation
Van Dijk, J. T., Krygsman, S. & De Jong, T. 2015. Toward spatial justice : the spatial equity effects of a toll road in Cape Town, South Africa. Journal of Transport and Land Use, 8(3):95–114, doi:10.5198/jtlu.2015.555.