Abstract
Urban Transport Infrastructure in Southern Africa is multifaceted but faces major challenges. In the past decades, various efforts have aimed at enhancing urban public transport investments across all government levels. What remains to be documented convincingly though, is the nature of the arrangements, and their impact on the development and maintenance of urban public infrastructure. This study adopts a bibliometric analysis to provide a comprehensive inves-tigation of the challenges, dynamics, and potential strategies concomitant with pooling public transport financial investments in Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe. VOSviewer and Citespace are employed for the analysis. The key study findings propose a frame-work to facilitate sustainable transport infrastructure. By syncing the current practices, the study contributes insights to create a comprehensive financing model to ensure a sustainable and smart mobility infrastructure pool in Southern Africa.