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Delivering urban transport by improving decision making : lessons from a city, lessons for a city
Bibliography: pages 97-98.
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/21686 Delivering urban transport by improving decision making : lessons from a city, lessons for a city Kane, Lisa Adele De Kock, Mike Transport Studies Civil Engineering Bibliography: pages 97-98. This thesis starts from the position that the enterprise of transport planning is failing to deliver a transport system which fully meets the needs of urban dwellers. Criticisms of the process are presented and it is argued that one reason for the lack of delivery is the insufficient attention paid by transport planning professionals, and researchers, to the decision-making process. The nature of decision-making is explored by reference to various theoretical models of decision-making, and it is concluded that decision-making in an existing situation must be comprehensively described, before recommendations for its improvement can be made. Cape Town is chosen as the city for investigation. Checkland's Soft Systems Methodology is used for describing urban transport decision-making in Cape Town, and the approach is informed by seventeen in-depth interviews and forty-five questionnaires with decision-makers. The analysis yields insights which are categorised into four areas: issues of institutional re-organisation and funding; issues of politician involvement; issues of change in officials; issues of public involvement. An action plan is developed from the insights. 2016-09-06T14:41:52Z 2016-09-06T14:41:52Z 1998 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21686 eng application/pdf Department of Civil Engineering Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Transport Studies Civil Engineering Kane, Lisa Adele Delivering urban transport by improving decision making : lessons from a city, lessons for a city |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Delivering urban transport by improving decision making : lessons from a city, lessons for a city |
| title_full | Delivering urban transport by improving decision making : lessons from a city, lessons for a city |
| title_fullStr | Delivering urban transport by improving decision making : lessons from a city, lessons for a city |
| title_full_unstemmed | Delivering urban transport by improving decision making : lessons from a city, lessons for a city |
| title_short | Delivering urban transport by improving decision making : lessons from a city, lessons for a city |
| title_sort | delivering urban transport by improving decision making lessons from a city lessons for a city |
| topic | Transport Studies Civil Engineering |
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