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Browsing 38th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 2019 by Issue Date
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)Asphalt mix design for tropical high temperature climate regions is challenging, especially, for roads expected to carry heavy truck loads and higher design traffic significantly exceeding 1 million equivalent single axle ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)The case study is on a section National Route (N2) near Somerset West/Strand, South Africa. The N2 is a divided dual carriageway surfaced freeway from Cape Town to the start of the experimental section located at the end ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)The study was performed on an existing national road in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. The R336 is a surfaced single carriageway two-lane two-way road starting at km 0.00 at the intersection with the R75. The study extends ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)In the City of Cape Town, pedestrians follow desire lines and cross railway lines to access public transport, public facilities and employment areas. The informal crossing of railway lines is unsafe and has resulted in ...
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Disruptive Transport Technologies: Forecasting the Impact on Road-Generated Revenues in South Africa (Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)Disruptive transport technologies have been present since the industrial revolution, creating a future that was not directly foreseen, for instance, the invention of the steam locomotive that replaced horse-drawn carts. ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)The transport industry holds a prominent place in the South African economy, positively contributing to the fiscus, as well as acting as a change agent in alleviating socio-economic ills by creating employment and thereby ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)Commuters on Cape Town freeways experience congestion on a daily basis. The Freeway Management System (FMS) was used to inform various studies, amongst others specific network improvement studies and the Congestion Management ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)Emerging technologies have the potential to reshape our world. These innovations, also called disruptive technologies, have started to seep into the area of finding solutions for mobility. This essay will investigate if ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)Collaborative Accessibility-based Stakeholder Engagement (CoAXs) is an interactive planning tool intended to enhance public participation in planning public transport systems. To assess its applicability in various contexts, ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)Initiatives to map and digitalise informally run transport systems such as minibus taxis are becoming increasingly common in cities across the world (e.g. Digital Matatus, Transport for Cairo, Bus Map Beirut). Many of these ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)Mobility-as-a-Service otherwise known as MaaS (Hietanen, 2014) can be regarded as a shift away from personally-owned modes of transport towards mobility solutions that are consumed as a service. It involves combining ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)This research forms part of the City of Cape Town’s pilot programme to improve the business models of minibus-taxi associations and establish transport operating companies, in preparation for the implementation of the next ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)The theme for the 2019 Conference is ‘Disruptive Transport Technologies – is South and Southern Africa Ready?’. For public transport in South Africa, the challenges are not so much those of transport technology, but rather ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)This paper investigates the phenomenon of South African drivers using the hard shoulder of the road as an unofficial turning lane. Due to the increasing number of vehicles on our roads, drivers often experience heavy ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)This paper considers the challenges for major African cities to provide a better public transport service for the passengers that rely on multiple networks on a daily basis. It recognises that the long-term goal of many ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)In anticipation of the establishment of the Municipal Regulatory Entity (MRE), in terms of the requirements of the National Land Transport Act, Act 5 of 2009 (the NLTA), the City of Cape Town (the City) has developed a ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)Public transport reform efforts in Cape Town have previously focused on replacing unscheduled minibus-taxis with scheduled bus rapid transit services. However, this has proven more difficult and expensive than expected. ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)This paper serves to explore the significance of the national road network. The paper examines its importance as key facilitator for progress and growth, to attract much needed direct foreign investment and to create jobs. ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)The minibus taxi industry has grown to become the largest provider of transport to the urban public. Attempts have been made by government to regulate, integrate, and upgrade this sector but all such efforts have been ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)Cities are traditionally built along a high-capacity public transport backbone, thus increasing opportunities at points of accessibility. The Gauteng City Region (GCR) is not built on a strong mass transit backbone, there ...
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