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    The association between public transport and commuters’ mental health: the case of South Africa
    (University of Fort Hare, 2023-12) Mpepo, Othi; Hompashe, D
    Public transport is the most-used mode by workers every day; therefore, it is important for the public transport mode to have the highest efficiency in terms of travel time, travel cost, and conditions of the public transport mode. However, public transport has had emerging taxi wars, irresponsible driving, road unworthy, and congestion. These have caused many casualties in the past: innocent people who had no alternative but to use public transport. It is the responsibility of this study to address the question of whether public transport use affects commuters’ mental health. This was investigated using logit model analysis, and the data were obtained from General Household survey. The impact of public transport use on commuters’ mental health was also analyzed using chi-square and likelihood tests to assess the relationship between mental health and public transport. Stata 14 was employed and implemented as an explanatory technique to achieve the objectives of this study. The results of previous studies indicate that there is mostly an impact of public transport on mental health which may also justify the conditions that directly affect the well-being of people and commuters. Furthermore, these studies suggested that active public transportation, which includes walking and cycling, would have positive effects on the general well-being of commuters. It is no surprise that the results of this study would follow a similar route of deteriorating the mental health of commuters using public transportation.