Entry to the 'Student essay competition' presented at the 27th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 7 - 11 July 2008 "Partnership for research and progress in transportation", CSIR International Convention Centre, ...

In recent years a convergence of more socially progressive transport policy, and an intentional focus on the gender aspects of development, has lead to an increasing awareness of the ways in which transport systems and ...

Freight transport in South Africa is dominated by two modes, namely road transport and rail transport. The current dominance of road is not only linked to high value commodities, perishables or short transport distances, ...

A housing project with 24 km of residential streets, on a site 8 km south of the city of Luanda in Angola, known as the Nova Vida Project was constructed in 2001. A stabilized natural pebble river gravel mixed with red ...

A semi-mechanistic semi-empirical analysis technique has been developed in South Africa whereby deflection bowl parameters, measured with the falling weight Deflectometer (FWD), are used in a relative benchmarking methodology ...

This paper will discuss the findings of a retrospective travel survey with respect to what triggers change in commuter travel behaviour. The survey was conducted in Cape Town during August 2006, as part of a project ...