The South African government has decided to introduce an extensive toll road system in the Gauteng Province, to fund the road upgrades in the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP). This research report assesses the effectiveness of this funding strategy by analysing the social, economic and environmental impact of the GFIP toll road. The user pay principle is also interrogated to assess the fairness of the toll tariffs to be levied on different user groups. This study has found that the GFIP investment was an unstrategic investment in transport infrastructure. It is proposed that an integrated multi-modal transport strategy is developed, that prioritises the development of the railway system for freight cargo and public transport. As freight vehicles cause more than 99% of roads damage, it is proposed that toll tariffs are only applied to freight vehicles, to lessen the negative social impact of tolling. It is proposed that an independent transport regulator and a consumer council are established, to protect consumer interests, to ensure the independent review of toll tariffs, and to review future public-funded transport investments.

Thesis (MDF) -- Stellenbosch University, 2011. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this research report is to analyse the feasibility of Open Road Tolling (ORT) and its development in South Africa through the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP). ORT represents the next generation of Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) and this research report will assess to what extent the GFIP scheme is in line with other comparable tolling schemes; and is the institutional environment amenable to ORT. This will allow one to gauge the feasibility of the scheme and its potential for acceptability and success. The research report outlines the number of risks that come with an ORT scheme and these include amongst others collection risk, enforcement, technology, privacy and public acceptance. The success of the GFIP will largely be determined by how well these risks are mitigated and how the benefits can be marketed to the users. The literature review illustrates that whether road pricing schemes have failed to move forward, have been implemented, are currently under development, or still in the planning stage as a concept there are several consistent lessons and critical success factors one should apply when structuring a scheme. In the discussions with stakeholders, the following conclusions with regards to the feasibility of ORT and its development in South Africa were as follows: - The factors which need to be addressed include political risk, effective marketing of the scheme to the public, obtaining political will and support, building trust between the scheme developer and the user, managing perceptions and acknowledgement of the fact that the scheme will need to prove itself over time. - Inadequate demonstration - Incorporating interoperability yields benefits in terms in terms of network externalities, the ability to use a single transponder for multiple tolling plazas and points, along with the potential for alternative uses for the transponder. - ORT as a viable solution for the GFIP is feasible from a technical point in that it’s the only way in which one can collect tolls from a high volume network and not cause disruptions in the flow of traffic. However, there are a number of persistent residual risks that SANRAL cannot entirely mitigate and some fall under the realm of political risk. - While SANRAL has applied best practice principles in structuring the GFIP with the aim of providing value for money for the user and as far as possible tackling the issue of affordability, there are certain realities, such as the recent global financial crisis, the infrastructure backlog of the country, users paying for roads which were free and challenges with overall service delivery which place a strain on the legitimacy of the GFIP ORT scheme.

The South African government has decided to introduce an extensive toll road system in the Gauteng Province, to fund the road upgrades in the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP). This research report assesses the effectiveness of this funding strategy by analysing the social, economic and environmental impact of the GFIP toll road. The user pay principle is also interrogated to assess the fairness of the toll tariffs to be levied on different user groups. This study has found that the GFIP investment was an unstrategic investment in transport infrastructure. It is proposed that an integrated multi-modal transport strategy is developed, that prioritises the development of the railway system for freight cargo and public transport. As freight vehicles cause more than 99% of roads damage, it is proposed that toll tariffs are only applied to freight vehicles, to lessen the negative social impact of tolling. It is proposed that an independent transport regulator and a consumer council are established, to protect consumer interests, to ensure the independent review of toll tariffs, and to review future public-funded transport investments.

Atualmente, para obter um benefício previdenciário o segurado da Previdência Social deve agendar seu comparecimento a uma agência munido de seu documento pessoal. Comprovado seu direito terá o benefício imediatamente concedido. Essa concessão de maneira tão célere e desburocratizada só é possível graças a informatização dos dados sociais dos trabalhadores brasileiros filiados à Previdência Social. O banco de dados que armazena as informações cadastrais, os vínculos, as remunerações e todos os demais dados necessários para a concessão de um benefício previdenciário é denominado Cadastro Nacional de Informações Sociais, CNIS. O abastecimento desses dados sociais do trabalhador é realizado principalmente pela Guia de Informações ao FGTS e à Previdência Social, GFIP, que é um documento preenchido mensalmente pela empresa do qual constam todos os dados dos trabalhadores que serão armazenados no Cadastro Nacional. A GFIP tem dupla natureza jurídica, natureza de obrigação tributária acessória e obrigação legal de cunho social. Essa, como visto acima, se consubstancia pela característica de instrumento de abastecimento dos dados sociais com vistas à implementação dos direitos previdenciários do trabalhador. Aquela, de obrigação tributária acessória, exsurge ao recordarmos que a GFIP contém todos os valores da remuneração percebida pelo trabalhador, que é base de cálculo das contribuições sociais previdenciárias devidas pela empresa e pelo próprio segurado. Em alteração promovida pela Lei nº 11.941, de 2009, a sanção pelo descumprimento do dever de preencher e enviar a GFIP foi alterada. Criou-se multa moratória de expressiva monta no caso de descumprimento das obrigações relacionadas à GFIP. Porém, o pagamento do tributo acrescido da multa aplicada não garante que as informações sociais necessárias à concessão dos benefícios previdenciários cheguem ao CNIS. Nem mesmo após a fiscalização e punição da empresa inadimplente. Não há, hoje em dia, proteção legal aos dados sociais dos trabalhadores brasileiros e nesse sentido, não há garantias de que a concessão dos benefícios previdenciários seja regularmente realizada. O presente estudo, após analisar com a profundidade necessária a questão, submete uma proposta de alteração legislativa objetivando a garantia das informações sociais do trabalhador e assim efetiva tutela de seus direitos sociais. / Nowadays in order to receive the retirement plan benefit, the employee needs to go to the closest office with his /her personal documents. Once it is confirmed the worker rights, the benefits will be available to the employees. This simple transaction is only possible through all Brazilian workers social data base which is linked to Social Security. CNIS (Cadastro Nacional de Informações Sociais) is the System responsible for storing all data base information and employees paychecks. The collection of all workers social data is mainly maintained by Guia de Informações to FGTS and Previdência Social (GFIP).There is a monthly document filled by employers which contains all workers data. This data afterwards will be stored at Cadastro National. GFIP has a double juridical nature since it implies in tax and social obligation. As mentioned above, it is based as an instrument of social data storage to implement employees retirement plan rights. The tax obligation is the calculation of employees and employers contributions based on all workers received paychecks. Since the approval of the law 11.941 in 2009, the obligation of filling and sending information to GFIP changed. It was imposed a heavy penalty for those not fulfilling GFIP obligations. But still heavy penalties do not guarantee that the necessary social information gets to CNIS. Not even after the companies that are failing to do so have been inspected and punished. There is not, nowadays, legal protection to the Brazilian workers social data compromising retirement benefits. The proposal of this study, after deeply analysis of the issues mentioned above, is to request a change in the legislation in order to guarantee the workers social information as well as the employees social rights.

Atualmente, para obter um benefício previdenciário o segurado da Previdência Social deve agendar seu comparecimento a uma agência munido de seu documento pessoal. Comprovado seu direito terá o benefício imediatamente concedido. Essa concessão de maneira tão célere e desburocratizada só é possível graças a informatização dos dados sociais dos trabalhadores brasileiros filiados à Previdência Social. O banco de dados que armazena as informações cadastrais, os vínculos, as remunerações e todos os demais dados necessários para a concessão de um benefício previdenciário é denominado Cadastro Nacional de Informações Sociais, CNIS. O abastecimento desses dados sociais do trabalhador é realizado principalmente pela Guia de Informações ao FGTS e à Previdência Social, GFIP, que é um documento preenchido mensalmente pela empresa do qual constam todos os dados dos trabalhadores que serão armazenados no Cadastro Nacional. A GFIP tem dupla natureza jurídica, natureza de obrigação tributária acessória e obrigação legal de cunho social. Essa, como visto acima, se consubstancia pela característica de instrumento de abastecimento dos dados sociais com vistas à implementação dos direitos previdenciários do trabalhador. Aquela, de obrigação tributária acessória, exsurge ao recordarmos que a GFIP contém todos os valores da remuneração percebida pelo trabalhador, que é base de cálculo das contribuições sociais previdenciárias devidas pela empresa e pelo próprio segurado. Em alteração promovida pela Lei nº 11.941, de 2009, a sanção pelo descumprimento do dever de preencher e enviar a GFIP foi alterada. Criou-se multa moratória de expressiva monta no caso de descumprimento das obrigações relacionadas à GFIP. Porém, o pagamento do tributo acrescido da multa aplicada não garante que as informações sociais necessárias à concessão dos benefícios previdenciários cheguem ao CNIS. Nem mesmo após a fiscalização e punição da empresa inadimplente. Não há, hoje em dia, proteção legal aos dados sociais dos trabalhadores brasileiros e nesse sentido, não há garantias de que a concessão dos benefícios previdenciários seja regularmente realizada. O presente estudo, após analisar com a profundidade necessária a questão, submete uma proposta de alteração legislativa objetivando a garantia das informações sociais do trabalhador e assim efetiva tutela de seus direitos sociais. / Nowadays in order to receive the retirement plan benefit, the employee needs to go to the closest office with his /her personal documents. Once it is confirmed the worker rights, the benefits will be available to the employees. This simple transaction is only possible through all Brazilian workers social data base which is linked to Social Security. CNIS (Cadastro Nacional de Informações Sociais) is the System responsible for storing all data base information and employees paychecks. The collection of all workers social data is mainly maintained by Guia de Informações to FGTS and Previdência Social (GFIP).There is a monthly document filled by employers which contains all workers data. This data afterwards will be stored at Cadastro National. GFIP has a double juridical nature since it implies in tax and social obligation. As mentioned above, it is based as an instrument of social data storage to implement employees retirement plan rights. The tax obligation is the calculation of employees and employers contributions based on all workers received paychecks. Since the approval of the law 11.941 in 2009, the obligation of filling and sending information to GFIP changed. It was imposed a heavy penalty for those not fulfilling GFIP obligations. But still heavy penalties do not guarantee that the necessary social information gets to CNIS. Not even after the companies that are failing to do so have been inspected and punished. There is not, nowadays, legal protection to the Brazilian workers social data compromising retirement benefits. The proposal of this study, after deeply analysis of the issues mentioned above, is to request a change in the legislation in order to guarantee the workers social information as well as the employees social rights.

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Mega projects have fascinated human beings for as long as history can remember. The urge to build something bigger and better than has ever been done before has always been a driving force behind the human race’s relentless pursuit of technological advancement. It is in this vein that mega projects have evolved over time, as methods of construction improved, so did the scale on which people could attempt new projects. The Channel Tunnel between England and France, the Hoover Dam in America and the Millau Viaduct in the French countryside are some of the biggest examples of infrastructure projects in the world and these are all unequivocally, mega projects. Costing at least $ 250 million and incorporating major technological challenges, mega projects continue to inspire and motivate artists and engineers alike. This thesis seeks to expand people’s understanding of the analysis of these mega projects. Mega project analysis is a field that has struggled to differentiate itself ordinary project analysis. The Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) and the associated e-tolling mega project will be analysed in this thesis. The framework for analysis will be provided by the work of Flyvbjerg, Bruzelius and Rothengatter (2003), who seek to analyse mega project success or failure based on three key indicators of economic sustainability, environmental concerns and the effect of public support. This thesis will use the indicators of economic sustainability and the effect of public support to determine whether the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) can be viewed as a failed mega project or not. After an in-depth study of the data and material available, this descriptive and explanatory study shows that the GFIP and associated e-tolling mega project is indeed a failed mega project. This is because it has failed the analysis in both categories of economic sustainability and the effect of public support. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Megaprojekte het al eeue lank die mens gefasineer. Die neiging van die mens om iets groter en beter te maak as wat al ooit gemaak was het nog altyd baie dryfkrag verskaf vir die mens se strewe na tegnologiese verbetering. Dit is met hierdie idee in gedagte dat megaprojekte met tyd verander het, soos wat boumetodes verbeter het, so ook het die grootte van projekte verander wat mense kon aanpak. Die Channel Tonnel tussen Engeland en Frankryk, die Hoover Dam in Amerika en die Millau Brug in die Franse platteland is voorbeelde van die grootste infrastruktuur projekte ter wêreld en hierdie is al drie, sonder enige twyfel, megaprojekte. Teen ‘n koste van ten minste $ 250 miljoen en met grootskaalse tegnologiese uitdaging, hou megaprojekte aan om vir beide kunstenaars en ingenieurs te motiveer en uit te daag. Hierdie tesis poog om mense se kennis van die analise van megaprojekte te verbreed. Megaprojek analise is ‘n veld wat al jare lank sukkel om verskille te bewerkstellig tussen homself en gewone projek analise. Die “Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project” (GFIP) en die verwante e-toll megaprojek sal geanaliseer word in hierdie tesis. Die raamwerk vir analise sal deur Flyvbjerg, Bruzelius en Rothengatter (2003) verskaf word, waar die outeurs poog om megaprojekte se sukses of mislukking te bepaal gebaseer op die sleutel aanwysers van ekonomiese volhoubaarheid, omgewingskwessies en die effek van openbare ondersteuning. Hierdie tesis sal gebruik maak van die ekonomiese volhoubaarheid en openbare ondersteuning aanwysers om te bepaal of die GFIP beskou kan word as a mislukte megaprojek of nie. Na ‘n in-diepte study van die data en materiaal beskikbaar, sal hierdie beskrywende en verduidelikende studie wys dat die GFIP en verwante e-toll megaprojek inderdaad ‘n mislukte megaprojek is, as gevolg daarvan dat die GFIP megaprojek analise aandui dat die megaprojek misluk het in beide die ekonomiese volhoubaarheid en publieke ondersteunings aanwysers.

Thesis (MDF)--Stellenbosch University, 2011. / The aim of this research report is to analyse the feasibility of Open Road Tolling (ORT) and its development in South Africa through the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP). ORT represents the next generation of Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) and this research report will assess to what extent the GFIP scheme is in line with other comparable tolling schemes; and is the institutional environment amenable to ORT. This will allow one to gauge the feasibility of the scheme and its potential for acceptability and success. The research report outlines the number of risks that come with an ORT scheme and these include amongst others collection risk, enforcement, technology, privacy and public acceptance. The success of the GFIP will largely be determined by how well these risks are mitigated and how the benefits can be marketed to the users. The literature review illustrates that whether road pricing schemes have failed to move forward, have been implemented, are currently under development, or still in the planning stage as a concept there are several consistent lessons and critical success factors one should apply when structuring a scheme. In the discussions with stakeholders, the following conclusions with regards to the feasibility of ORT and its development in South Africa were as follows: The factors which need to be addressed include political risk, effective marketing of the scheme to the public, obtaining political will and support, building trust between the scheme developer and the user, managing perceptions and acknowledgement of the fact that the scheme will need to prove itself over time. Inadequate demonstration of equity for the user along with poor communication would compromise public acceptance and the success of the scheme. Incorporating interoperability yields benefits in terms in terms of network externalities, the ability to use a single transponder for multiple tolling plazas and points, along with the potential for alternative uses for the transponder. ORT as a viable solution for the GFIP is feasible from a technical point in that it's the only way in which one can collect tolls from a high volume network and not cause disruptions in the flow of traffic. However, there are a number of persistent residual risks that SANRAL cannot entirely mitigate and some fall under the realm of political risk. While SANRAL has applied best practice principles in structuring the GFIP with the aim of providing value for money for the user and as far as possible tackling the issue of affordability, there are certain realities, such as the recent global financial crisis, the infrastructure backlog of the country, users paying for roads which were free and challenges with overall service delivery which place a strain on the legitimacy of the GFIP ORT scheme.