Abstract
Globally, developed countries continually experiment with new strategies to have the best regulated urban public transportation to support the urban expansion, however developing countries still face challenges. The absence of an organized, effective, and dependable transportation system is the main source of challenges that prevail in developing countries. The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality is not exempt from the ongoing public transportation issues that plague other rapidly expanding municipalities in developing economies. Apartheid in South Africa has left footprints in spatial distributions, where municipalities are facing the issue of social exclusion, with an increasing proportion of the urban population living in economic insecurity and relative marginalization. These are crucial concerns for an all-encompassing urban design that seeks to act spatially. This urban planning distortion is destructive because it eliminates any coherence from a more regional perspective. The City of Johannesburg adopted innovative public transport systems, in attempt to curb transport challenges within its local municipality. This dissertation seeks to determine to what degree the municipality’s unique public transportation systems are connected. For urban sustainability cannot be realized without well-integrated public transportation networks that are inclusive, inexpensive, and appealing to a diverse variety of individuals across society. This study found that, although there are innovative transport systems, there is gap interconnectedness and interdependency between the innovative public transport systems and other public transportation systems, due to various impediments such as the existing infrastructure limiting developments.
Key words: Integrating, Innovative transportation, social exclusion, sustainability, urbanization.