Transport remains connected to our indigenous habitat, wellbeing and monetary thriving which rely upon good transport frameworks that provides effectiveness, comfort, fairness as well as affordability. Public transport is often framed as key component of building sustainable cities. Nonetheless, present estimations recommend that transport development is unjustifiable. Transport intimidates the social, economic, and our environmental future. Modifying as well as overseeing patterns of transport shows a critical issue which necessitates collaboration from participants’ at all governmental spheres. The paper presents a critical literature review of the relationship between public transport and sustainability. The paper contributes to transport domain by identifying the key problems associated with sustainability of transport based on the perceptions and discussions of significant literature on transport. The attention is on connection amongst sustainable transport division and the sustainable development within South African setting. Outcomes demonstrate that the concept of sustainable transportation has received recognition from the globe and improvement of sustainable transport is evident around the city. This work concludes that sustainable transportation is still a long process for developing countries, as it provides a progression of proposals that are intended to upgrade the execution of the Johannesburg transport development and design method, with suggested changes for moving transportation improvement to a sustainable motivation.