While it is acknowledged that good transport infrastructure is a prerequisite to economic growth, the costs of providing, maintaining and rehabilitating road infrastructure over the last few decades, have soared, consuming ...

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 ...

South Africa’s addiction to fossil fuels for both electricity production and freight transport place significant external costs onto society. This paper identifies and reviews such external costs, particularly those resulting ...

Ultra-Thin Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement (UTCRCP) is an innovative pavement type that typically consists of a 50 mm high strength steel fibre reinforced concrete layer overlaying existing or new pavement ...

Crash scenarios involving a rear end impact are common place internationally. Some of the most devastating collisions are often where a sedan collides into the rear of a commercial trailer, partial overlap. This type of ...

The South African National Roads Agency Ltd (SANRAL) primarily relies on CCTV cameras to detect traffic incidents occurring on the Freeway Management System (FMS) network. On the Gauteng FMS network, over 90% of the incidents ...

Road transportation plays a crucial role in providing access for people for various socio-economic activities, such as business, education, employment, recreation, health care etc., especially in the cities. However, with ...

The eThekwini Transport Authority (ETA) of the eThekwini Municipality has been at the forefront of transportation planning for the past fifty years and macroscopic traffic modelling has been at the heart of much work that ...

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 ...

Internationally, evidence-based research informs the actions and interventions that are successfully implemented in developed countries, aiming for a zero fatality rate. South African progress to reduce the number of fatal ...