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Browsing 35th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 2016 by Issue Date
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Bhengu, P.; Allopi, D.
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
supports our transport system. This includes, railways, sea-ports, airports and, in particular road pavements. In South Africa, the South African National Roads Agency?s (SANRAL) prime mandate is to finance, improve, manage ...
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Van Rensburg, J.; Krygsman, S.
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
The South African fuel levy is used to fund government?s general expenditure programmes, including the construction and maintenance of roads and support of public transport. Yet, the continuing reliance of the fuel levy ...
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Ngqaleni, Malijeng
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
Spending for public transport has significantly ramped up over the years. Further, given our history and spatial legacy, subsidies for public transport are high by international standards, especially when recovery from the ...
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Yesefu, S.
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) in recent years has made some significant progress in regional transportation developments carried out in each member state. The progress made has not been without seething ...
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Van den Berg, L.
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
The City of Cape Town as Planning Authority, is responsible for providing the required direction to the Provincial Regulatory Entity (PRE) with respect to all land base public transport service applications - including ...
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Hayes, G.; Venter, C.
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
In South Africa, Random Utility Maximisation (RUM) econometric theory based on the weighted linear addition of attribute vectors has been used in commuter trip choice models since the early 2000?s. The application of this ...
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Jordaan, G.; Kilian, A.
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
The provision and preservation of a good transport infrastructure is a prerequisite to economic growth. To be competitive in a micro as well as macro economy, any cost associated with and influencing production and delivery ...
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Ndibatya, I.; Coetzee, J.; Booysen, M.J.
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
In cities in the emerging world, public transport networks are governed by a large number of agents, each with their own agendas, priorities, incentives and resources, interacting nonlinearly through complex feedback loops. ...
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Schachtebeck, C.; Mbuya, J.M.
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
Poverty remains a critical challenge in developing economies, as presented in the Sustainable Development Goals. The South African government, in particular, has undertaken a number of initiatives to alleviate poverty. ...
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Venter, Karien; Labuschagne, F.J.J. (Kobus); Phasha, S.; Gxowa, S.; Khoza, S.
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
In 2015, the Road Traffic Management Corporation undertook a pilot study to investigate how prevalent driver inattention and distraction is in South Africa. Driver inattention and distraction is the leading factor in ...
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Das, D.; Honiball, J.
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
Public parks and open recreational facilities are essential elements of healthy modern cities. The importance of the public parks in urban residential areas is uncontested from the health and environment point of view. ...
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Zou, X.; Tan, S.; Wang, D.; Liu, L.; Zou, Y.; Yu, X.
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
Cold recycling with emulsified or foamed asphalt has been widely used in China to convert the existing asphalt surface layer to an asphalt base layer. A new asphalt surface layer between 12 and 18 cm is then paved. Since ...
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Tsikai, E.
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
This study critically discusses the issue surrounding the transport department of S.A from 1994 to 2015 looking at the performance. The study has recognised that transport is a crucial catalyst for economic development. ...
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Wall, Kevin; Rust, Frederik Christoffel; Kistan, K.
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
In 2006 the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE), in partnership with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), released the first ever ?report card? assessment rating of the condition ...
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Jordaan, W.
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
The Electric evolution is moving faster that anyone anticipated. This will change all aspects of transport and in particular public transport. This talk will cover some of the topics core to this evolution, including ...
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Stander, H.J.; Brink, J.C.
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
Being a developing middle income country, South Africa has considerable transportation challenges. Car ownership and use are rising with improved economic conditions, but congestion on the road network is worsening all the ...
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Goosen, E.S.
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
This essay examines the role of transport in creating socio-economic growth and development opportunities to improve the quality of life South Africans live. It explores the nature of transport in society in general as a ...
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Venter, Karien; Muronga, K.
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
The Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) methodology has in the past decade proven extremely valuable in providing rich contextual information about the driver, the vehicle and driving environment. Internationally the uptake ...
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Henama, U.; Sifolo, P.
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
The domestic aviation sector in South Africa has been characterised by the demise of many local owned airlines. Aviation is important for business, citizens and tourists because it provided a high speed transport network. ...
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Benade, R.; Berman, R.; Kienhofer, F.; Nordengen, P.
(Southern African Transport Conference, 2016)
In South Africa there are approximately 12.5 truck-crash-related fatalities per 100 million kilometres travelled. This is between 4 and 10 times higher than a number of European countries such as Denmark, France, Germany ...