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37th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 2018: Recent submissions
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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)This talk presents insight into some of the current and emerging trends in aviation research being conducted across the world’s aviation research institutes. Drivers of technology development and innovation within the world ...
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(2018)As a non-manager with many friends in the industry, Becker has a unique insight into the effect of rules and regulations on company structures and the loss of knowledge. Our small company's business strategy is based on ...
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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)The use of paratransit has been the most popular transport in many African mega cities. In Dar es Salaam (DES), the system has been the only available public transport for the majority, as the other form of public transport ...
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(2018)This paper serves to explore rural transport policy implications and directions in South Africa. Making use of a systems and gap analysis approach, the paper examines and compares the main pillars of the 2007 Rural Transport ...
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Operation optimization considering order cancellation and ticket discount for on-demand bus system (2018)The emergence of multi-source and mass travel data and the gradual maturity of acquisition methods make the realization methods of travel demand more diversified. The on-demand bus is a pattern that can meet the needs of ...
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(2018)The current airline environment is very competitive and dynamic. Maintaining consistent profitability requires that appropriate tradeoffs be made between the often-competing objectives within planning, marketing and ...
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(2018)The history of unmanned aircraft can be traced back for almost a century but only recently, with the advances in sensor and computing technology and their relative reduction in costs has there been a remarkable growth in ...
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(2018)Licence plate recognition (LPR) systems are used to automatically extract the characters from licence plates positioned in front of a camera. The geometric detection pattern is the region within which the system can ...
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(2018)The It’s Time event held on April 22, 2017, is seen as the pinnacle of religious events in South Africa. The estimated attendance is one million people, classifying the event as a major transportation event. Major ...
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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)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)A brief introduction to Pegasus Universal Aerospace Pegasus Universal Aerospace is a South African Born Aerospace Company whose vision is to become and be seen as the platinum standard for aircraft manufacturing leasing ...
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(2018)Like a growing a number of African countries, South Africa has embraced bus rapid transit (BRT) as a means to reform urban public transport. However, BRT services that are now operational in Cape Town, Johannesburg and ...
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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)South African transportation is generally observed as uncoordinated with hitches and pitfalls. The ease of public transportation movement is highly dangerous with unguaranteed safety and comfort. Despite the funds budgeted ...
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(2018)Infrastructure development, including roads, requires large capital investments coupled with proper financial administration to ensure sufficient financing and funding. Insufficient or uncertain budget allocation undermines ...
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(2018)The applicability of a pedestrianisation scheme in the historic city center of Stellenbosch, in alleviating the currently experienced transportation related problems, is investigated. These problems negatively affect the ...
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Understanding the operational characteristics of paratransit services in Accra, Ghana: a case study (2018)This paper studies the operational characteristics of paratransit services in Accra, Ghana. These semi-formal minibus operations provide the bulk of transportation services in Ghana, but little is known about them. In this ...
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