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Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Our modern society depends heavily on the transportation industry for transporting people and goods over long distances. However, the industry is facing considerable problems due to the market's constant changes and the ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)A decade of research into low-income housing and livelihoods has provided a crucial lens into issue of mobility. Diverse forms of transport difficulties can have potent effects on households, often compromising lives and ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Upskilling involves enhancing existing skills, while reskilling involves acquiring new skills tailored to evolving job roles and technologies. The global transport industry faces multifaceted challenges, including environmental ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)The California Bearing Ratio test (CBR test) is a penetration test developed by the California State Highway Department (Caltrans) in early 1928/29 for evaluating the properties of construction materials. CBR testing is ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)The realities of climate change and its consequences have played a significant role in spurring on the development of technologies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions such as electric vehicles. Nations in the ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Determining in-situ concrete properties can be a challenge due to limitations on current test methods where laboratory conditions and in-situ conditions are not the same. The heat released from cementitious materials during ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Road maintenance is a crucial process for pavement management systems. South African local roads managed by lower road authorities (municipality, etc) are in critical condition, and their management is not at optimum level ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Professional industries - including the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sectors - are undergoing a radical transformation. Spurred on by unprecedented advancements in hardware and applications of evolving ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)In recent years, there has been a growing shift towards the utilization of cold mix asphalt with bitumen emulsion as an alternative method for pavement maintenance and construction. This trend is driven by its environmentally ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)The demand for heightened precision in the development of intricate geometries associated with civil infrastructure necessitates a shift in the approach of civil engineers towards digital techniques. Digital modelling of ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Culverts play a critical role in managing water flow beneath roads and railways, necessitating accurate load rating to ensure structural integrity and safety. Evaluating the structural capacity of culverts to support ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)The air cargo logistics is a service sector within the aviation industry responsible for the distribution of goods through airports. The sector has been faced with struggles to deliver service for customer satisfaction. ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Cross-border road transport corridors form a vital element of regional economies. To remain globally competitive, compliance enforcement must be reconciled with streamlined trade flows. This requires the use of IoT ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)The rapid evolution of technology and the implementation of strategic initiatives by organizations such as the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) are transforming airspace management and air traffic control ...
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State-of-play in the restructuring and partial privatisation of municipal airports in South Africa (Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Following the formation of ACSA as a SoE in 1993 and a plethora of new legislation thereafter, including the Constitution itself (1996) and various Acts governing the role and function of Municipalities (from 1998 to 2003), ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)This technical paper explores the concept of perpetual pavements and its applicability in Southern Africa. Beginning with a historical overview of the development of perpetual pavements, the paper examines their successful ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)CAASA came into existence in the final year of World War II and has been a pivotal organisation in the development of the Commercial and General aviation sector over the past 75 years and counting. We bring industry needs ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Effective road law enforcement is a vital part of transportation systems. Escalating traffic congestion and widespread illegal road usage pose fresh hurdles for law enforcement systems. An intelligent law enforcement system ...
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Towards the second decade of action for road safety:Improving crash data recording in South Africa (Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)The National Road Traffic Act, 1996 (Act 93 of 1996) (Department of Transport, 1996) requires that all crashes be reported to any police officer at a police station, or any office set aside by a competent authority (e.g., ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)In the present day, road accidents within the urban network of Nampula are emerging as a significant concern. Quite literally, traffic accidents are reported by road users on a daily basis; however, only those with a certain ...
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