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It outlines key roles of the Department of Transport, including policy formulation, strategic planning, and regulation focused on fair competition, safety, and environmental protection. 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A number of countries in southern Africa use South Africa's transport infrastructure to move their imports and exports.  \nThe main functions of the Department of Transport include policy formulation; strategic planning, which facilitates growth and development; and regulation, which promotes fair competition, upholds safety standards, and protects the environment. The national Department of Transport is strategically positioned to provide safe, reliable, effective, efficient and fully integrated transport operations and infrastructure, which best meet the needs of freight and passenger customers and improve levels of service and cost. This supports government strategies for economic and social development while being environmentally and economically sustainable.  \nPolicy  \nThe Department of Transport is reviewing the national transport policy to ensure that it meets the needs of all South Africans.  \n In October 2001, the Minister of Tansport, Mr Dullah Omar, launched the new 10M4 coaches. The new design provides for improved safety features, enhanced facilities and more cost-effective maintenance. The first phase of the project involves the refurbishment of 176 coaches (88 in both Cape Town and Gauteng) . The programme will seethe present class 5M2A coaches upgraded to class 10M4 coaches, ensuring an additional 30 years of coach life.  \nThe National Land Transport Transition Act, 2000 (Act 22 of 2000), provides for a completely new system of 'permissions' to replace permits for taxi and bus transport, and will lay the foundation for a fully integrated, longterm user-orientated land transport system.  \nThe Act rests on the following: creating appropriate institutional bodies, planning, regulated competition and the restructuring of modes, sustainable funding, and effective transport law enforcement.  \nThe Act also provides for the devolution of transport planning, services and infrastructure development to transport authorities. Pilot projects will be initiated in the Durban and Pretoria regions with a view to integrating different institutional and funding arrangements. The process of devolution will evolve over time as more transport authorities are established. The result will be the identification of an appropriate transport mode for each transport corridor. This will contribute towards eliminating parallel-subsidised services and reducing operating subsidies.  \nA report entitled Moving South Africa Strategy was released in May 1999. It contains a unique strategic framework for the improvement of passenger and freight transport over a 20-year period, based for the first time on consumer needs. The project focuses mainly on the improvement of infrastructure and the encouragement of private investment, particularly in the minibus-taxi, bus and rail sectors. Investments in the public transport system will be redirected to historically disadvantaged people such as the disabled and senior citizens.  \nS o u t h A f r i c a Y e a r b o o k 2 0 0 1 / 0 2  \nThe Strategy also aims to concentrate residential and industrial developments around transport corridors. This will increase the number of people using public transport and bring down costs, allowing government and operators to focus investment in the corridors.  \nContributing to the Rural Development Strategy, the Department will secure close cooperation between the provincial members on the executive committee (MECs) for transport and public works. It wants to ensure the rehabilitation or construction of basic access roads in areas identified for development, and supported in terms of the provision of housing, water, electricity, health, education, social welfare, communication, and safety and security services. 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