The Impact of e-Toll or e-Tags on Daily Commuters of Johanesburg Metropolitan

Title

Investigation the impact of e-toll/e-tags on daily commuters of Johannesburg metropolitan

Keywords

Johannesburg metropolitan city, unemployment, poverty, road users, impacts, e-tolls, motorists, sanral, increases in prices and fares, improving, corruption.

Introduction

The majority or road users have been against the implementation of e-tolls since the beginning of its implementation in June 2010, and since then there has been no social unrest concerning this matter because citizens of Johannesburg feel that they are being forced to pay for what they did not ask for.

This study seeks to identify the challenges that the sanral department has been faced with since they implemented this structures in the Johannesburg region as a sign of improving the capital city of Gauteng. In this research proposal there is orientation and problem statement where I will be focusing on the issues that have arisen with the implementation of e-tolls, then will follow an outline of a hypothesis; than follows research questions and research objectives; followed by the significance of the study as well as limitation on which this study will be limited on; and lastly will be the ethical consideration and chapter outlines.

Orientation and Problem Statement

Since the implementation of e-tolls began there has been social unrest where by it is the public verse the government where by the public feels that the government is robbing they by charging the extra for using the road and they think that government has avoided their opinion in implementing the e-toll structures. It is bad enough that that people have to pay for tax, water, electricity and all other essentials that have been implemented by government.

The opposition of e-tolls is not only supp...

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... whom materials are taken. There are a number of issues which are involved in the system of ethical conduction in research.

Voluntary participation, a principal that requires people to not be forced in participating in the research. Informed consent, participant must be informed fully of the procedure and risks involved in research and they must give consent to participate. Participant harm, participants must not be put in serious situation where they may be at risk of both physical and psychological harm as a result of their participation.

Chapter Outline

Chapter 1: Introduction Orientation and Problem Statement

Chapter 2: Theoretical overview of the impacts of e-tags/e-tolls on the citizens of Johannesburg metropolitan city

Chapter 3: E-tolls in South Africa and there effects to society

Chapter 4: Empirical Research design

Chapter 5: Conclusion and Recommendation