Accessibility and Social Welfare: A study of the City of Johannesburg
Field | Value | Language |
dc.contributor.author | Lionjanga, Nahungu | |
dc.contributor.author | Venter, Christo | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-11-09 | |
dc.date.available | 2017-11-09 | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-01-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | International Conference Series on Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport – 2017 - Stockholm, Sweden - Thredbo 15 | en_AU |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17546 | |
dc.description | Papers - Workshop 6 | en_AU |
dc.description.abstract | Within the corpus of accessibility measures is the Net Wage After Commute which describes the potential wage earnable less the transport costs incurred to commute to work from a particular location. This paper explores the time-series developments of accessibility, using this poverty-relevant metric, in low-income residential areas of the City of Johannesburg, biennially from 2009 to 2013 when accessibility patterns were altered as a result of major investments in the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system. Furthermore, a difference-in-differences approach was adopted to explore the effects of access to the BRT on the well-being of lower-income households, investigating the premise that transport related benefits brought about by such investments translate to social welfare improvements. The results suggest that significant time-series changes in accessibility patterns are driven by affordability against the backdrop of decentralisation, particularly for low-income areas in the peripheries of the city. The difference-in-differences model reveals that the BRT did not improve the well-being of residents, however, likely users of the service are better off in terms of well-being than non-users. This suggests that that BRT in Johannesburg is beneficial as a transport project, but not as a general urban intervention able to improve the overall amenity of served communities. | en_AU |
dc.description.sponsorship | Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies. Faculty of Economics and Business. The University of Sydney | en_AU |
dc.language.iso | en | en_AU |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Thredbo 15 | en_AU |
dc.subject | Thredbo 15 - Papers - Workshop 6 | en_AU |
dc.title | Accessibility and Social Welfare: A study of the City of Johannesburg | en_AU |
dc.type | Conference paper | en_AU |
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