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38th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 2019: Recent submissions
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)Transport is an important sector for the economic development of South Africa. The maritime environment plays a very important role as it sustains other sectors in the economy. A sustainable transport system requires that ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)With the new Comprehensive Maritime Transport Policy and the Draft Merchant Shipping Act, specific provision is made for Cabotage. The paper reviews the goal of having coastal shipping as a viable solution include the two ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)Commonly cited estimates of the road maintenance backlog in South Africa, including that used in the 2018 Draft Roads Policy for South Africa, quantified it at R197 billion in 2014. This paper interrogates the accuracy of ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)The Jwaneng long-term pavement performance base course experiment on the Kanye-Jwaneng road in Botswana consisted of 12 test sections of wet-mix and foamed Kalahari sand-asphalt and 11 test sections of mostly substandard ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)The case study is on a section National Route (N2) near Somerset West/Strand, South Africa. The N2 is a divided dual carriageway surfaced freeway from Cape Town to the start of the experimental section located at the end ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)The arrival of aquatic exotic species in a new area increases with proximity to seaports, thereby raising bio-security concerns for our seaports and coastal environments. Protecting our national borders against these ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)Nowadays, with the increasing climatic challenges, ports are beset with many uncertainties about their futures. They are confronted with new demands for infrastructure adaptation, new external constraints, and changed ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)It is true that fossil based energy has contributed immensely to global economic growth. Unfortunately, its usage is accompanied by the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2), a principal greenhouse gas. Studies using business ...
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High Speed, Rear End, Partial Overlap Crash Test of a Large Sedan and Stationary Commercial Trailer (Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)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 ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)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 ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)Skid control on a typical dry rural sandy, gravel road had been investigated, to identify the skid and braking characteristics. Experimental analysis was performed on a vehicle travelling at three different speeds (80, 60 ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)This paper uses Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) to assist the Namibian Roads Authority cost-effectively allocate a €60.0 million loan from International Development Agencies between 8 trunk road maintenance and upgrade ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)This paper considers the challenges for major African cities to provide a better public transport service for the passengers that rely on multiple networks on a daily basis. It recognises that the long-term goal of many ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)In the town of Stellenbosch, vehicular trips to and from schools are major contributors to traffic congestion during peak times. The congestion that is observed at individual schools within Stellenbosch, varies significantly, ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)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 ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)The Jwaneng long-term Kalahari base course experiment on the Kanye-Jwaneng road in Botswana was opened to traffic early in 1980. It consisted of 12 sections of Kalahari fine sand- asphalt using various tars and bitumens ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)Commuters on Cape Town freeways experience congestion on a daily basis. The Freeway Management System (FMS) was used to inform various studies, amongst others specific network improvement studies and the Congestion Management ...
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BRT Station Capacity Analysis: Optimising Bus Rapid Transit Station Design Through Capacity Analysis (Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is being prioritised in countries that want to implement fast, affordable and reliable public transport. Because this is a relatively new mode of public transport, there is limited literature dealing ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)Cities today face many urban challenges and sustainable transportation is one of these. Cycling has been proposed as one of a basket of solutions as it is an efficient way of travelling in urban areas over short to medium ...
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(Southern African Transport Conference, 2019)The transport industry holds a prominent place in the South African economy, positively contributing to the fiscus, as well as acting as a change agent in alleviating socio-economic ills by creating employment and thereby ...
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