Browsing 34th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 2015 by Title

Browsing 34th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 2015 by Title

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  • Understanding the barriers to a shift of processed food from road to rail through system dynamics 
    Lewis, Y.; Van der Merwe, A.B.; Cohen, B.; Naude, L. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)
    One of the most important greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation opportunities identified for the freight transport sector is a mode shift from road to rail. A system dynamics model was constructed to evaluate the drivers and ...
  • The universally accessible intersection 
    Frieslaar, A.; Thompson, P.; Frieslaar, R. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)
    The National Department of Transport?s Vision of the Public Transport Action Plan encourages the utilisation of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) as part of Integrated Rapid Transport Networks (IPTN?s), in conjunction with rail and ...
  • Variations in traffic count data 
    Chauke, V. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)
    Traffic counts are the most basic input into transport planning studies, yet there is the potential for errors to propagate within the data collection process that can result in uncertainty in the final collected data. If ...
  • Vehicle acceleration estimation using smartphone-based sensors 
    Bruwer, Frances; Booysen, M. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)
    Recent advances in smartphone technology, including motion sensing and wireless communications, have resulted in these devices being used for vehicle-based driver behaviour sensing applications, replacing existing bespoke ...
  • What does transit oriented development mean in a South African context? A multiple stakeholder perspective from Johannesburg 
    Bickford, G.; Behrens, R. (Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)
    Car dependency is increasing in South African cities, and apartheid spatial patterns continue to be observed in the accommodation of public transport captive communities at low densities on the fringes. It has been argued ...