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Browsing 34th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 2015 by Subject "Transportation"
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)In South Africa, drivers of minibus taxis are often described as being unlawful, aggressive and sometimes dangerous drivers. Such claims have, however, never been fully substantiated in traffic studies. Previous studies ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)The financial sustainability and continued roll-out of South African Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) networks has been questioned. The unique spatial structure of South African cities, in which the majority of residents live toward ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)Traffic congestion is a challenge leading to undesirable consequences in most of the cities of the world. Many large and medium cities of South Africa, specifically the central business districts (CBD) are facing this ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)As part of the project to update the Malawian Directorate of Road Transport and Safety Services? (DRTSS) 2005 Axle Load Control Strategy and to provide a five-year implementation plan, a country-wide axle load survey was ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)If social media, events calendars, procurement briefings and tenders issued are to be believed, South African cities are undergoing a bicycling revolution. ?Bicycle-friendly? is a phrase on the lips and in the speeches of ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)Bicycle share programmes are a fast growing trend in urban transportation. The premise of giving a community struggling to afford public transport access to a seemingly low cost bicycle alternative is attractive. The City ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)With limit of budget and time, transportation infrastructure maintenance project decision was needed. Optimization is very important for project decision in the Transportation Infrastructure Management System (TIMS) ?due ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)The Kenyan public transport authorities observed that the voluntary organisation of some fragmented inter-city matatu businesses into Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs) had resulted in improved service and regulatory ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)Potholes are a nuisance, especially in the developing world, and can often result in vehicle damage or physical harm to the vehicle occupants. Drivers can be warned to take evasive action if potholes are detected in ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)Structural Number (SN) is a well-known pavement index methodology derived from the product of structural layer coefficients, layer thicknesses and environmental (and drainage) factors. Subsequently, the Adjusted Structural ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)The town of Stellenbosch has the potential to grow cycling into a major mode. To date the town has made significant advances in the provision for non-motorised transport (NMT) enabling the creation of a partial network of ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)Traffic management has become increasingly important with growth in vehicle numbers unmatched by investment in infrastructure. A large part of management is measuring traffic flow. Video footage of traffic flow is normally ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)The approach proposed in this paper considered benefits of a one-stop facility, and the regional transport impacts of relocating all or some of the processing functions to alternative sites. A three-tier approach to assessing ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)Decisions about border post location and design are often based on operational, design and implementation cost considerations, without due consideration of the economic impact of these choices. Although the resultant changes ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)In developing countries cities, the development of planned urban areas is associated with rapid changes in land uses. The number of vehicles trips generation in the planned area is related to the types, patterns and ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)In this paper, the need to provide more End-of-Trip Facilities (EOTF) for cyclists (and/or other Non-Motorised Transport (NMT) users) is highlighted. Almost all Governmental Departments (DoT, Provincial Government and Local ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)Traffic safety is a major challenge in most of cities in South Africa particularly on the arterial roads passing through the sub urban areas. The major contributing reasons for the occurrence of traffic accidents emphasized ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)With the implementation of the first phase of the Gautrain and Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems in Gauteng in 2009, and that of Cape Town's MyCiti BRT system in 2010, the major focus related to planning, design and ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)Fatigue is one of the most commonly experienced problems amongst long distance drivers and results in significant, but unrecorded, number of crashes each year. The methodological difficulties associated with diagnosing ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2015)The decongestion strategy of Maseru Bridge was informed by a research exercise investigating different border post decongestion measures and border precinct typologies. Generic design parameters for border post decongestion ...
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