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Browsing 37th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 2018 by Issue Date
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(2018)The eThekwini Municipality’s (EM) vision is to be Africa’s most caring and liveable city by 2030. In support of this vision from a transport perspective, considering that the majority of commuters within EM depend on public ...
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(2018)Go to any aerospace technology conference these days and it is a fair bet that some presenter will mention the increasing rate of change of technology and the disruptive engineering innovation we are now facing – a cliché ...
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(2018)In 2006, 2011 and 2017 SAICE and the CSIR cooperated to produce “report cards” on the condition of engineering infrastructure in South Africa. Apart from providing condition gradings for several classes of infrastructure, ...
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(2018)Bhutan is a country with one of the lowest per capita incomes and very limited financial and industrial resources. Situated in the Himalayan foothills and mountains, its road transport network must negotiate very challenging ...
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(2018)The deterioration of the aggregate material used in road construction is of concern as it affects the overall long term stability of the road pavement and should be minimised by using durable aggregates. The paper presents ...
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(2018)The 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) is the time of technological convergence, where innovative technologies such as big data, the sharing economy, the internet of everything and blockchain are increasing, connecting the ...
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(2018)As the future of transportation, one can envisage fully Autonomous Vehicles (AV), on-demand moving people from place to place, guided by infallible technology imperceptible to the society. From a purely technical standpoint, ...
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(2018)The eThekwini Transport Authority (ETA) is currently developing and pursuing a heavy vehicle safety intervention strategy in order to reduce heavy freight vehicle crashes. The current challenge the eThekwini Municipality ...
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(2018)This presentation will give an overview of the different techniques of dynamic weighing (both in-road and on-board). It will show the main applications, advantages and limitations of current WIM systems. This will be ...
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(2018)Sustainable road transportation and sustainable development are interlinked and influence the success of each other. In this context road, traffic congestion on the roads of cities of South Africa remains a challenge for ...
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(2018)Accessibility is the centre of a sustainable urban area (UN Habitat, 2013). Most developing countries have not achieved accessibility and sustainability of public transportation systems. Cities have deployed mass transit ...
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(2018)Applications of Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) systems have included data collection, screening for enforcement, and tolling (ETC). Monitoring traffic volume for planning, and protection of roadway pavement systems by overload ...
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(2018)Optimizations of relatively thin (< 50 mm thick) asphalt road surfacing design towards first class user experiences are still an art today. The risk for failure is difficult to assess, therefore unwanted tyre-road interactions ...
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(2018)It is widely believed that public transport alternatives, income levels and employment influence households’ travel patterns and modal choice. In particular, the level of employment and disposable income influences trip ...
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(2018)This study makes use of an online survey from 363 residents living in Xi’an, China, to explore whether smog pollution has an influence on travel behaviour and whether people will take the environment, health, and safety ...
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(2018)In 2014 the South African Road Federation took up the challenge that the National Department of Transport implemented through the Decade of Action initiative and as a Road Engineering Federation after reviewing international ...
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(2018)Brazil is a country of continental dimensions and dependent on the road matrix as the main means of transportation for goods, merchandise and passengers. The country has a network of 55 thousand kilometers of highways and ...
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(2018)In 2007 the South African National Department of Transport commissioned the construction of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Networks in major metros. However, due to increased cost and dependence on subsidies, there have been ...
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(2018)This paper is centred on an investigation of whether the integrating earth observation and census data can result in useful information to support transport planning and monitoring. In particular circular buffers with radii ...
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(2018)With the dawn of the fourth industrial revolution characterized by the rapid advancement and development of 3D printing technologies, miniaturization of transducers and the emergence of big data applications, the railway ...
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