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Browsing 39th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 2021 by Type "Article"
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De Saxe, C.C.; Van Eeden, Joubert; Steenkamp, A.; Mokone, O.
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
South Africa’s national power utility, Eskom, is under heavy strain to maintain an undisrupted electricity supply and contain costs, while at the same time reducing its environmental impact. In 2018/19, Eskom acquired 118 ...
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Aruho, A.T.; Behrens, R.; Mitullah, W.; Kamau, A.
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
Reliance on cash fare collection, in a ‘target system’ of driver remuneration, has contributed to poor quality of paratransit service in Sub-Saharan African cities. Cashless Fare Collection (CFC) initiatives have therefore ...
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Visser, H.J.; Tetley, S.R.
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
The FWD has been used for the past three decades in South Africa to emulate a loaded wheel while taking measurement of vertical deflection of the road surface at various offsets from the load. The measured deflection bowls ...
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Aucamp, A.; Govender, S.; Van tonder, M.; Winstanley, J.; Morgan, C.
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
The eThekwini Transport Authority (ETA) is implementing an Integrated Public Transport Network (Go!Durban) which is essentially a traditional BRT system. Go!Durban requires a Public Transport Management System (PTMS) in ...
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Dube, M; Lushaba, V.; Gumbi, N.
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
This paper is based on a qualitative investigation into issues and challenges affecting the participation of transport sector small businesses in skills development and training programmes. The findings of the paper are ...
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Moolman, J.A.; Baikgaki, A.
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
Individual aerodromes support different types of aviation functions and activities, and thereby contribute to the overall operational capacity and efficiency of the bigger aviation system.
The functions of an aerodrome can ...
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Hayes, G.
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
Discrete choice models have had wide application for mode choice simulation as part of the multi-modal four-step transport demand modelling process in South Africa. For all models since 2000, urban commuter modal trip ...
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Allen, W.G; Contiero, F.
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
In 2018, the Western Cape Department of Transport and Public Works retained Bentley
Systems (formerly Citilabs) and Esri SA to develop the Western Cape Land
Use/Transportation Interaction model. This model provides the ...
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Chakamera, C.; Pisa, N.
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
The economic role of air transport progressed over the past decades, following factors such as increased globalisation. Despite the economic importance of air transport, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lagged behind other regions ...
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Makhari, A; Hawes, n
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
Modifying bitumen is currently a common practice in South Africa. The asphalt pavement industry has seen an increase in use of different types of modifiers in an attempt to improve or extend the properties of bitumen. ...
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Kemp, L.; Roux, M.P.; Kemp, M.; Kock, R.
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
In South Africa, visual inspections for all bridge structures are required every five years. A need was identified to establish if it would be practical to utilise technologies, such as drones and photogrammetry, to improve ...
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Cai, L.
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
With the rapid popularization of high-tech artificial intelligence, 5G, and cloud computing, public transportation has gradually realized the need for transformation from artificial to autonomous. This paper discusses the ...
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Khumalo, K.
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
Covid-19 pandemic permanently shifted the plate tectonic of the transport sector around the world. Previous research has confirmed that there is an intricate link between transport sector and tourism (Bricker, n.d.; Lucrezi ...
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Stolworthy, L.A.; Krogscheepers, C.; Rabe, C.
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
The City of Cape Town has been working towards understanding the intricate relationship between land-use and transportation in order to develop growth management strategies that seek to create a more balanced travel demand ...
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Maqetuka, S.
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
The upgrading of informal settlements remains one of the pressing challenges that government faces in South Africa, and other developing countries. The mushrooming of informal settlements in the developing world, especially ...
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Mokone, O.; De saxe, C.C.
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
Understanding the precise movements of different commodities on South African roads can help in not only describing the logistics sector more accurately, but also in the planning of road infrastructure maintenance and ...
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Steenkamp, A.J.; De saxe, C.C; Kienhöfer, F.; Kemp, L
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
The paved road network is a critical asset to any country and its economy. South Africa’s paved road network has an estimated value in excess of R2 trillion. This asset is threatened by a backlog in maintenance of more ...
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Du plessis, P.M.; Breytenbach, A.; Sallie, I.; De franca, V; kemp, M.; Russell, S.; Sedelinghuys, S.
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
Although the Gauteng provincial road network encompasses only one percent of the entire South African road network, it serves the economic heartland of South Africa and carries around 66 million veh-km on a daily basis. ...
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Netterberg, F.
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
The curing rates of ten full-scale experimental road base sections of nonplastic, grey-white and red Kalahari sands treated with 2,5, 5,0 and 6,5% of SS 60 emulsion without added cement or inert filler were monitored by ...
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Mapamba, L.S.; Pisa, N.
(Southern African Transport Conference 2021, 2021)
As the impacts of climate change become more visible, the call for solid action on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions has become stronger. Transportation has a key role in the South African decarbonisation context. In ...