Our experienced team can help you streamline or design your public transport systems, whether for a large city, an industrial hub, a small town and everything in between. Having worked in large cities, small towns, and urban and peri-urban hubs, we have the skills required to deliver the following solutions:

Active Mobility and Non-Motorised Transport
Non-Motorised Transport (NMT) refers to modes of transport like walking and cycling. These modes of transport form part of every journey, with walking dominating in the South African context.
Thoir 76 has extensive experience in pedestrian design and modelling that supports sustainability for transport planning and traffic engineering. This includes:
Active Mobility talks about creating an environment that is conducive to safe, efficient NMT, and promoting the most sustainable and affordable forms of travel. It looks at creating public spaces and transport infrastructure and facilities that enable citizens to cycle or walk.
To do this, we must understand the behaviours and needs of the people in an area, their travel movement and patterns, desire lines and accessible routes, and what they need from an NMT system. This allows us to design the right infrastructure in the right place in a way that promotes maximum usage AND forms part of the public transport which in turn supports the sustainability of the entire system.

Sustainability
Sustainability is an umbrella term with vastly different meanings based on the goals of a project, programme, business, organisation or government department. We look to understand what sustainability means for our clients in the context of their projects and work towards quantifying its value in terms of project delivery and ongoing operation. We do this by looking at Business Innovation and Integrated Urban Solutions.

Transport Planning
We adopt a holistic approach to transport planning and engineering, one that looks to create integrated urban solutions that go beyond the transport element of a project.
While we are always careful to follow the legislated principles of transport planning, we are equally dedicated to designing the best solution for the system’s current and forecasted demands.
An imperative design element is always financial savings in all forms and we are proud to report that our efficient transport system designs have already meant substantial financial savings in operational and vehicle CAPEX. for our clients.
We have successfully undertaken projects for various Metros, District Municipalities and Local Municipalities in South Africa, which included designing public transport systems for millions of people in a way that ensures transport modes complement, rather than compete with one another.

Public Transport
Public Transport (PT) planning serves to connect places using the best route location, the most appropriate mode and related headways to service the demand.
Whilst PT planning is a very technical and intricate design process it has to be driven by an understanding of the movement patterns in an area and how a system can positively support and better these patterns. In this way, PT systems are not sustainable in their singular form but rather in their regenerative impact on urban environments, in so far as enabling densification which in turn triggers nodal sustainability, an increased rates base, reduction in trip length distribution and the increase in related industries and secondary businesses.
Our team has designed PT systems for eThekwini, Msunduzi, the City of Johannesburg and other nodes that have formed the basis of operational plans, business plans and infrastructure design.

Infrastructure Implementation
We are experienced in a large city transport infrastructure implementation programme with numerous projects with varying goals running at different stages.
A key to the success of this programme was setting up the systems, processes and procedures to ensure that each project could be managed from both a contractual and programme management perspective. This was done by implementing systems that allow for project management to be conducted by an institution and not by individuals. By placing accountability in the correct areas, black economic transformation was tracked, and all audit compliances were met.
A major part of the infrastructure management was monitoring the interaction between city management, consultants and contractors. The goal was zero claims and the delivery of the projects on time and under budget OR with forewarning of things that may go wrong.

Traffic Engineering
We have extensive experience in running traffic engineering projects, putting our traffic analysis skills to good use and employing static and microsimulation methods.
We have undertaken the traffic engineering for two presidential priority projects in RSA, with a collective bulk of over 3 million square metres and a peak-hour person trip generation of more than 110 000 trips. The transportation network work designs were for both public and private transport.
We have successfully designed complex interchanges with extreme constraints. For an industrial area expansion programme, we lead the microsimulation analysis for the proposed facility upgrade. This included a multi-modal analysis of varying trucks and private vehicles.
In addition, detailed traffic engineering was undertaken for both the Durban Harbour and Richards Bay port expansion projects which included complex modelling of freight and logistics operations integrated with normal traffic operations.





