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36th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 2017: Recent submissions
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)A methodology is presented for estimating the area of influence of two similar non-recurrent congestion events in two of South Africa’s metros, Tshwane and Cape Town, by use of probe data. Congestion in South Africa’s big ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)An efficient road network consists of a vast series of carriageways interlinked by slipways and ramps that allow for both economic and societal movement. The Gauteng Province encompasses approximately twenty percent of the ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)Worldwide, parking provision is required at minimum rates typically prescribed by municipal ordinances or in national policy documents. Litman (2011) argues that inherent problems with minimum parking requirements, their ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)As part of an ongoing effort to explore driver behaviour in South Africa, this research investigates non-motorised transport users as an element of risk in the driving environment from a driver perspective. This research ...
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Quantification of the natural variation in traffic flow on selected national roads in South Africa (Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)Transport and traffic movement is complex and ever-changing. The movement of people and the means by which they travel are directly influenced by the transportation systems available to them. Engineers have the responsibility ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)The presentation will involve highlighting several practical problems through means of slides and discussion: The effect of the raised central island at single lane roundabouts on large trucks. The slowing down of high ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)The City of Tshwane implemented an Urban Traffic Control (UTC) system as part of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, appropriately named A Re Yeng. The first phases of the BRT route extend through the Tshwane CBD up to ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)The Western Cape has a large network of 25 300 km of unpaved roads. The unpaved road network is managed within the framework of the Unpaved Road Maintenance System with the assistance of five District Municipalities. The ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)Social networks have been identified in the literature as important in shaping the adoption of innovations. They can act as proponents proving financial, technical, political and even moral support towards innovation ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)This paper investigates the different influence factors for passenger train use. These factors have been clustered into 3 groups: 1. Socio-economic aspects: population and economic growth; 2. Internal train system aspects: ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)Three “low-carbon challenges” were held, in Tshwane and Johannesburg in 2015, and Cape Town during 2016. In each city, teams of racers traversed a route using non-motorised, public, paratransit or electric transport, in ...
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Exploring cashless fare collection in the context of urban public transport reform in South Africa (Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)As in many developing countries, in South Africa unscheduled paratransit services dominate urban public transport. Despite the resulting scale of fare revenue, the majority of the country’s minibus-taxis operate as cash-only ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)In March 2007, Cabinet approved a Public Transport Strategy. The Strategy proposed a phased implementation of Integrated Rapid Public Transport Networks (IRPTNs). The aim was to have operating systems in place in 12 cities ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)The large-scale replacement of unscheduled minibus-taxi services with scheduled bus rapid transit trunk-feeder networks in South African cities, as envisioned in the 2007 Public Transport Strategy, has proven costly and ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)The new Minimum Requirements for the Preparation of Integrated Transport Plan, 2016, promulgated by the National Department of Transport requires the following of the responsible Government Authority: 'The preparation of ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)South Africa is known for its high level of road fatalities. The, so called, road safety burden in the Western Cape, and in particular Cape Town, has been decreasing, due to a prolonged investment in road safety measures. ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)The existing Diamond Interchange at the crossing of the N1 with Sefako Makghato Drive (Route K14) in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality was recently, in 2015, upgraded to a Diverging Diamond Interchange (DDI). ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)The ‘total cost of road traffic crashes’ metric is an important road safety indicator that serves as the departure point for understanding the extent and magnitude of the road safety problem in a country and the stifling ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)Motorcycles transport commonly known as (Boda boda) in Tanzania has been growing up in the recent years in both urban and rural areas. Since motorcycles have been authorized to carry passengers in Tanzania they have been ...
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Naturalistic driving studies : the effectiveness of the methodology in monitoring driver behaviour (Southern African Transport Conference, 2017)Naturalistic Driving Studies (NDS) is a research methodology that has the potential to improve existing approaches for collecting data about driver behaviour and performance in normal driving conditions. Analysis of ...
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