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Browsing 34th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 2015 by Issue Date
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)Structural Number (SN) is a well-known pavement index methodology derived from the product of structural layer coefficients, layer thicknesses and environmental (and drainage) factors. Subsequently, the Adjusted Structural ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)Decisions about border post location and design are often based on operational, design and implementation cost considerations, without due consideration of the economic impact of these choices. Although the resultant changes ...
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(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 ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)Post-1994, the railway environment in South Africa could best be described as monopolistic competition. The former South African Railways & Harbours, which later became Transnet Freight Rail, was and still is the only role ...
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An integrated transport planning approach for Sandton - how do we balance the demands for road space (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)During the past four decades, Sandton experienced significant land use growth, particularly in office and retail development. This is evident from the number of new buildings that have been built recently including the ...
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Fit-For-Purpose laboratory assessment of lightly stabilised fly ash material for road construction (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)The increased use of alternative materials, particularly streams of industrial by-products in transportation construction is motivated by the need to optimize construction of sustainable pavements. Fly ash has mostly been ...
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(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 ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)In addition to selecting the preferred border post design layout, the appraisal approach demonstrated how the selection of the preferred location for future border post expansion could minimise travel cost, to maximise ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)Traffic safety is a major challenge in most of cities in South Africa particularly on the arterial roads passing through the sub urban areas. The major contributing reasons for the occurrence of traffic accidents emphasized ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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"Looking back, looking forward" : urban development and transport infrastructure in Gauteng Province (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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)During 2013, the Department of Transport realised that one of the issues contributing to the lack of appropriate Non-Motorised Transport (NMT) infrastructure, is the fact that the 2003 Pedestrian and Bicycle Facility ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)The sun is most hazardous to drivers when it is close to the horizon, particularly within an hour time frame after sunrise (dawn) and before sunset (dusk). The position of the sun and the angle of the rays during this ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)The Australian performance-based standards (PBS) scheme is being evaluated in South Africa as an alternative means of regulating heavy vehicles, allowing for a relaxation of length and mass limits. This has proven to provide ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)This paper asks the question of whether lawenforcement in transport adds value to road users and operators or it is an irritation, which is time consuming and unnecessary. The paper provides a brief history of the road ...
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