ABSTRACT
Urban Transport Infrastructure in Southern Africa is multifaceted but faces major challenges. In the past decades, various efforts have aimed at enhancing urban public transport investments across all government levels. What remains to be documented convincingly though, is complexity of coordinating diverse stakeholders, managing regulatory inconsistencies, and securing sufficient financial resources for infrastructure transportation projects. This study adopts a bibliometric analysis to provide a comprehensive investigation of the challenges, dynamics, and potential strategies concomitant with pooling public transport financial investments in Southern Africa. VOSviewer and Biblioshiny are employed for the analysis. The key study findings propose a framework to facilitate sustainable transport infrastructure. By syncing the current practices, the study contributes insights to create a comprehensive financing model to ensure a sustainable and smart mobility infrastructure pool in Southern Africa.
