• Fatigue management : lessons from international legislation and practice 

  Swart, E.; Sinclair, M. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  Fatigue is one of the most commonly experienced problems amongst long distance drivers and results in significant, but unrecorded, number of crashes each year. The methodological difficulties associated with diagnosing ...
• Aggressive driving behaviour : the case of minibus taxi drivers in Cape Town, South Africa 

  Sinclair, M.; Imaniranzi, E. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  In South Africa, drivers of minibus taxis are often described as being unlawful, aggressive and sometimes dangerous drivers. Such claims have, however, never been fully substantiated in traffic studies. Previous studies ...
• Transport as a servant of trade and its cross-border challenges : a case of Swaziland and the newly introduced immigration laws by the South African government 

  Khumalo, G. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  The movement of goods and services as well as people is usually through road and rail transportation, especially in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Swaziland is a landlocked country with its economy ...
• Transportation : a tool to combat challenges in global city regions 

  Lionjanga, N. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  Global City-Regions are regional economies that consist of one or more functionally linked metropolitan areas and their surrounding hinterlands. As an increasing number of regions across the world aim to attain Global ...
• Effects of land use on trip generation in urban areas : comparison between estimated trip generation rates and planning practices in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 

  Wilfred, G.; Bwire, H.; Mattsson, L.; Jonsson, D. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  In developing countries cities, the development of planned urban areas is associated with rapid changes in land uses. The number of vehicles trips generation in the planned area is related to the types, patterns and ...
• The universally accessible intersection 

  Frieslaar, A.; Thompson, P.; Frieslaar, R. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  The National Department of Transport?s Vision of the Public Transport Action Plan encourages the utilisation of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) as part of Integrated Rapid Transport Networks (IPTN?s), in conjunction with rail and ...
• "Looking back, looking forward" : urban development and transport infrastructure in Gauteng Province 

  Mubiwa, B.; Mokonyama, M.; Annegarn, H. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  Studies have shown that land-use and transportation systems have a two-way dependency. On one hand, the existing land-use structures influence trip distances and transport mode choice, while on the other hand transport ...
• Framework for sustainable walking and cycling within the City of Polokwane, South Africa : a comparative assessment 

  Ligege, A.; Nyarirangwe, M. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  The role of Non-Motorized Transport (NMT) in meeting the daily mobility and accessibility needs particularly among the middle to low income households cannot be overemphasized. Apart from affordability reasons, the mode ...
• The indicative effects of inefficient urban traffic flow on fuel cost and exhaust air pollutant emissions 

  Moselakgomo, M.; Naidoo, M.; Letebele, M. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  Poor urban traffic management such as poor intersection controls, congestions, illegal roadway blockages and construction works causes 'stop-go' driving conditions with excessive idling resulting in wasted fuel and increased ...
• Feasibility study on traffic decongestion strategies at Maseru bridge border post 

  Serero, G.; Van Jaarsveld, G.; De Abreu, V.; Brislin, A. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  The decongestion strategy of Maseru Bridge was informed by a research exercise investigating different border post decongestion measures and border precinct typologies. Generic design parameters for border post decongestion ...
• Variations in traffic count data 

  Chauke, V. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  Traffic counts are the most basic input into transport planning studies, yet there is the potential for errors to propagate within the data collection process that can result in uncertainty in the final collected data. If ...
• Assessment of traffic congestion in the central areas (CBD) of South African cities : a case study of Kimberly city 

  Das, D.; Keetse, M. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  Traffic congestion is a challenge leading to undesirable consequences in most of the cities of the world. Many large and medium cities of South Africa, specifically the central business districts (CBD) are facing this ...
• Drone-based traffic flow estimation and tracking using computer vision 

  De Bruin, A.; Booysen, M. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  Traffic management has become increasingly important with growth in vehicle numbers unmatched by investment in infrastructure. A large part of management is measuring traffic flow. Video footage of traffic flow is normally ...
• Non-intrusive detection, the way forward 

  Beyer, P. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  With an increasing demand on our transportation networks, it is important to design and implement effective detection systems, for numerous reasons it can also be advantageous if these systems can be non-intrusive. Implementation ...
• Financing IRPTN operations : considerations for cities implementing I(R)PTNs in South Africa 

  Von der Heyden, C.; Laing,K.; Hastings, E.; Koch, P.; Reddy, T. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  The case for investment in road-based public transport in South Africa is provided in the Public Transport Strategy for South Africa (2007) and subsequent policy positions by the national Department of Transport (DOT). ...
• Running dry : assessing the fuel levy as a long term, economically efficient road use fund 

  Van Rensburg, J.; Krygsman, S. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  The fuel levy, a domestic transport cost component added to the basic fuel price, has long been South Africa?s main source of income to fund the construction and maintenance of roads as well as lend support to public ...
• Testing the impact and feasibility of 30 km/h speed limit zones at schools 

  Lambert, F.; Venter, C.J. (Christoffel Jacobus) (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  Local authorities such as the City of Tshwane (CoT) Municipality are confronted on a daily basis with road traffic safety challenges around schools. School principals, councillors, parents, scholars and neighbourhood ...
• IRPTN vehicle financing options and considerations 

  Koch, P.; Von der Heyden, C.; De Stadler, S.; Hastings, E.; Strano, D. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  The roll-out of comprehensive public transport networks in our major cities is requiring considerable up-front investment by government. The acquisition of the bus fleet presents the second largest component of capital ...
• Public transport interventions and transport justice in South Africa : a literature and policy review 

  Jennings, G. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  Although transportation is a field of government intervention in which consideration of justice traditionally has played only a marginal role (Martens & Golub, 2011), there is a rapidly growing body of international ...
• Intersection and signal design for BRT : challenges, lessons learned & the road ahead 

  Frieslaar, A.; Jones, J.; Van der Merwe, L.; Dlamini, B. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)

  The National Department of Transport?s Vision of the Public Transport Action Plan encourages the utilisation of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) as part of Integrated Rapid Transport Networks (IPTN?s). The roll out of BRT is currently ...

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