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Browsing 37th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 2018 by Type "Research Paper"
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Radebe, M.S.; Nabee, S.; Thomas, P.
(2018)
Technology is the driver of industry innovations. One disruptive innovation that has implications for third party logistic (3PL) service providers is the technology of 3D printing. 3D printing enables manufacturers to ...
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Myoya, R.L.; Grabe, Petrus Johannes; Venter, Christoffel Jacobus
(2018)
Incidents at the Platform-Train Interface (PTI) account for the majority of incidents occurring at train stations in South Africa. The precursors of these incidents are attributed to human behaviour and platform design. ...
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Mia, R.
(2018)
A brief introduction to Pegasus Universal Aerospace Pegasus Universal Aerospace is a South African Born Aerospace Company whose vision is to become and be seen as the platinum standard for aircraft manufacturing leasing ...
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George, T.B.; Mokoena, R.; Rust, Frederik Christoffel
(2018)
A well-established rail network is of strategic importance to a country and provides a cost- effective and efficient means of increasing its transportation capabilities. As such, ensuring the condition of the rail network ...
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Joseph, L.; Neven, A.; Martens, K.; Kweka, O.; Wets, G.; Janssens, D.
(2018)
This paper seeks to understand out-of-home activity participation of inhabitants in Dar es Salaam (DES), as well as their perceptions towards Informal Public Transport (IPT) and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in supporting these ...
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Hellens, M.C.
(2018)
Overloading and Speeding have been recognized to be both a safety as well as a cost concern.Through the continuous efforts undertaken by the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport, the heavy vehicle overloading problem in ...
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Barker, D.
(2018)
Go to any aerospace technology conference these days and it is a fair bet that some presenter will mention the increasing rate of change of technology and the disruptive engineering innovation we are now facing – a cliché ...
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Matema, S.
(2018)
The current airline environment is very competitive and dynamic. Maintaining consistent profitability requires that appropriate tradeoffs be made between the often-competing objectives within planning, marketing and ...
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Ross, D.; Townshend, M.
(2018)
Many road authorities, including those in South Africa, are unable to reliably identify and prioritise the maintenance of two essential road categories: roads that are required to satisfy citizens’ constitutional right to ...
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Mgangira, M.B.; Xungu, S.; Giani, J.
(2018)
The deterioration of the aggregate material used in road construction is of concern as it affects the overall long term stability of the road pavement and should be minimised by using durable aggregates. The paper presents ...
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Janmohammed, A.; Vanderschuren, M.; Van As, S.
(2018)
In Africa, South Africa is known to have the second highest fatality rate (Peden et al., 2013), claiming approximately 12 000 lives per year (RTMC, 2016). Perhaps the most disturbing victims of this epidemic are children ...
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Monk, J.
(2018)
The history of unmanned aircraft can be traced back for almost a century but only recently, with the advances in sensor and computing technology and their relative reduction in costs has there been a remarkable growth in ...
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Schalekamp, H.; Klopp, J.M.
(2018)
Like a growing a number of African countries, South Africa has embraced bus rapid transit (BRT) as a means to reform urban public transport. However, BRT services that are now operational in Cape Town, Johannesburg and ...
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Dawson, A.R.; Neves, L.A.C.; Sarkar, R.; Dijkstra, T.
(2018)
Bhutan is a country with one of the lowest per capita incomes and very limited financial and industrial resources. Situated in the Himalayan foothills and mountains, its road transport network must negotiate very challenging ...
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De Wet, G.
(2018)
Robust and effective tools for the accuracy and quality assessment of WIM data are essential to continuously prove the relevance and maintain the reliability of in-service WIM systems. The American ASTM Standard Specification ...
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Jennings, G.; Modau, I.
(2018)
This paper reports on a 16-week voluntary Travel Demand Management project for employees at World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) (Cape Town and Johannesburg), where employees were encouraged to shift from single occupant ...
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Malhotra, R.
(2018)
Vehicle safety is of primary concern and involves all aspects of the vehicle and driver. Tire performance is critical for commercial vehicle safety, and tire inflation is paramount for effective vehicle operation and ...
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Mogakabe, L.; Anochie-Boateng, Joseph K.; Ochieng, G.
(2018)
Peak hour trip generation rates are important for the calculation of the number of trips generated by a development during a peak hour. In South Africa, trip generation rates are obtained from the trip data manual documented ...
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Chang, C.M.; Rodriguez, E.; Yapp, M.; Pierce, L.
(2018)
Pavement networks must preserve an acceptable level of service to sustain the economic, social, and environmental development of society. The preservation of pavements is only possible when timely maintenance actions are ...
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Venter, B.D.; Van Zyl, N.J.W.; Shivambu, N.
(2018)
The estimation of transport demand by means of computer software models plays a major role in the planning of transport infrastructure and services of cities. Continuing changes in the land use and transport patterns of a ...