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Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology: Recent submissions
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)The design of roads plays a significant role in road safety outcomes. Typically, road safety is considered as just one of many considerations in road design and is often not prioritised. The study aimed to assess the ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Obtaining complete and accurate road crash data, particularly in relation to the spatial distribution of crashes, is an ongoing challenge. Deficiencies in crash data pose significant challenges to road safety initiatives. ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)In South Africa, as of 2018, the alarming statistic of one child being abducted every five hours highlights a pressing concern for the safety of school children. What compounds this issue is the stark inadequacy of school ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Continuous pavement health monitoring detects the early degradation of pavement structures and extends the lifetime thereof by informing predictive maintenance actions. The high cost of traditional pavement condition ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Socioeconomic factors, such as a high rate of unemployment and low income resulting in the inability to use public transport, coupled with the rising cost of living, have become core elements compelling pedestrians in ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Road safety is an undisputed problem in South Africa (SA). Zutobi, an innovative online driver education platform, rates SA as the world’s most dangerous country to drive in,largely based on low rates of seat belt use and ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Cape Town can be described as a Starter Cycling City as it has a policy intention to grow the mode share of cycling from a marginal base to about 8% by 2030. With a possible 1.5 million peak period trips, this would amount ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)In South Africa, over 10 million scholars walk to school every day. More than 8 million of these scholars walk a manageable distance to school. However, around 1 million scholars walk, as using a different mode (for example ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)From Artificial to increases in mobility choices, Transport Administrations need to create methods for recruiting new talent while ensuring their current talent is provided the tools to remain relevant. The United States ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)This article is the result of a descriptive, qualitative and quantitative field research carried out in the city of Nampula, between June and July 2022, involving 97 motorcycle taxi service operators, chosen at random, in ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Urban and transport planning policy and legislation documents play a critical role in determining successful public transportation in African towns and cities. This paper follows a historical approach in examining the role ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Paratransit - widely called Minibus Taxi (MBT) in South Africa - is common public transport for the society to reach their socio-economic opportunities and activities. The history of MBT services goes back to 1920’s and ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)The transformation of local and township economies has been identified as one of the critical priority areas for the government's medium-term socio-economic developmental aspirations in Gauteng. Further, recent Gauteng ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Skid resistance is an integral part of the road conditions that influence road safety on paved roads. Amongst other factors, the aggregate type used to construct wearing courses significantly affects the skid resistance ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)As part of its Transport Studies Programme, the University of Cape Town (UCT) offers a post-graduate course ‘Public Transport Systems Design and Operations Management’. This 20 Credits (200 hours) course includes a major ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Section 156(1) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa provides that a municipality has executive authority in respect of, and has the right to administer: (a) The local government matters listed in Part B of ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)The growing concerns over climate change and the move towards sustainable, cost- effective road development have resulted in the development of bio-based construction methods. Microbial induced calcium carbonate precipitation ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Public transport priority infrastructure like queue-jumping lanes and queue-bypass lanes have been well researched and proven to be successful in reducing delay and improving the overall efficiency of the public transport ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)There is an increasing focus by investment and financial stakeholders to rank, report, and track Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance of all sectors, including the transport and infrastructure sector. ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2024)Historically, towns and cities have developed at easily accessible transport nodes. The macro accessibility focus of cities has not extended to the micro level and accessibility within cities is often problematic. Given ...
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