RTIA Annual Report E-Book

Although the number of AARTO Branded Billboards placed on National Roads was not achieved owing to it’s implimentation not being alligned to Technical indicator, the RTIA has implemented a successful marketing and advertising campaign which took the form of 4 digital AARTO billboards placed on the national roads and flighted through the SABC television and radio stations in between daily programmes. The coverage received from this intervention is recorded at approximately 33,000 viewers. This initiative has brought maximum interest for users to continue to research and interact with the AARTO brand. Strategy To Overcome Areas Of Underperformance During the year under review, the RTIA deployed a high number of AARTO public awareness and education campaigns including participating in Road Safety initiatives hosted by the Minister of Transport to ensure sustained public awareness about AARTO programmes. There is no underperformance recorded on these performance indicators.

or static billboards to heighten AARTO awareness. During the year under review, the RTIA has deployed 467 campaigns against a set target of 120 Mainstream AARTO Public awareness and education campaigns. The annual target was exceeded by 347 campaigns Number of Stakeholder Groups trained on AARTO Legislation The AARTO environment is highly litigious owing to the infancy of the type of regulation this legislation is introducing in the Republic. The recent constitutional court judgement in favour of the applicant, the Minister of Transport and the RTIA is an example of the gravity of the impact this continuous training on AARTO legislation would have on interacting with this legislation, primarily by the key stakeholders in the AARTO value chain as well as ordinary road users. It is on this basis that the RTIA sought to implement 08 AARTO legislative training to the stakeholders during the year under review. The education and awareness created around this legislation also find support from successful campaigns undertaken by the communications team in consultation with various society groups in the nine provinces.

Changes to planned targets None Linking performance with budgets

Expenditure Items Programme 1

2023/2024

2022/2023

Actual Expenditure

(Over)/Under Expenditure

Actual Expenditure

(Over)/Under Expenditure

Budget

Budget

R’000 11 427 47 562 58 989

R’000 8 372 1 594 9 966

R’000 3 055 45 968 49 023

R’000 10 935 45 514 56 449

R’000 7 816 15 607 14 643

R’000 3 119 29 907 33 026

Personnel Operating expenses Total

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Road Traffic Infringement Agency • Annual Report 2023/24