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Climate Change and Cape Town's Transportation Sector
Sole responsibility for a literature analysis of transportation issues.
Understanding where other communities see opportunities for transportation successes and what threats they are facing is key to developing best practices. This analysis of Cape Town, South Africa looked at how those issues were shaped by and affect the city’s response to climate change.
A key takeaway was that South Africa overall faces the problem of climate change-created brownouts that severely limit the potential for electric vehicles, and how apartheid-era housing policies and ongoing de facto segregation has exacerbated GHG emissions in the transportation sector.
This analysis was completed for my Masters in Urban Planning and Policy core course, Global Urbanization and Planning.
From the paper:
From the paper:
"While transit-oriented development (TOD) is often considered a solution to increasing transit usage, Cape Town could instead implement an accessibility model. Research has found that by ensuring communities have internal access to daily needs, as opposed to upzoning and building new TOD areas, vehicle-miles-traveled (VMT) and emissions can substantially reduce resident travel patterns, and therefore CO2 emissions (Del Mistro et al, 2016). While this would be counter to the national government’s goal of car-free areas in central business districts that would enable more TOD-style housing, it could also be a way to bring residents to existing services (Republic of South Africa Department of Transport, 2017)."
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