During the Interdesign the following aspects were kept in mind:

The Wider Context

• Social aspects (individual and community problems, needs, desires, aspirations, expectations)
• Transport management aspects (standards, regulatory issues, licensing, safety)
• Sustainability (enhanced quality of life, possibilities for business opportunities and job creation – maintenance and repairs for example, indigenous knowledge)
• Environmental aspects (animal care, local materials, indigenous knowledge, recycling)

Important Issues that had to be considered:

• Gender aspects – women are often the end user/driver of the transport device
• Commuters – school children, pensioners, domestic workers, women as specific target group, the disabled, trauma & non-emergency patients, tourists, etc
• Agricultural needs – inter-farm transport, getting produce to and from the market areas
• Access to rural transport / Distances to rural transport service points
• Cost – cost of transport in relation to total income, quality of delivery
• Kind of Services provided / Means of transport – keeping local environment in mind
• Quality of service provided – in relation to cost, social needs, safety, etc
• Physical infrastructure
• Travelling Time Factor
• Poverty alleviation
• Job creation
• Possible business opportunities
• Local Economic Development (LED), poverty alleviation and social service delivery programmes - taping into existing rural transport projects with existing project plans, as well as other existing projects
• Building design capacity on different levels – knowledge based as well skills based
• Aspirations of communities – the community might look upon non-motorised rural transport devices as inferior and going ‘backwards’.
• Expectations created by the Interdesign involvement – it might be necessary to plan for generating some short-term solutions as well
• Tourism projects - During his budget speech in February, Trevor Manuel, minister of Finance, announced that the 2010 World Cup projects will receive early priority and that an additional R3-billion would be allocated for transport infrastructure and services.