Construction 2013

By on January 21, 2014 in News, TRB Publications

Transportation Research Record : Construction 2013  No. 2347 Transportation Research Board, No. 2347 contains 12 papers that explore a highway design and construction project delivery selection matrix; fatigue in highway construction workers; early contractor design involvement to expedite delivery of emergency highway projects; and the selection of project quality assurance organizations for highway design and […]

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Travel Surveys; Asset Management; and Freight Data 2013

By on January 21, 2014 in News, TRB Publications

Transportation Research Record : Travel Surveys; Asset Management; and Freight Data 2013 2354 TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2354 contains 13 papers that discuss estimation bias and efficiency for pseudopanel data in travel demand analysis; quantification of key errors in household travel surveys; new measures for detection of data […]

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Traffic Signal Sytems Volume 1

By on January 21, 2014 in News, TRB Publications

Transportation Research Record : Traffic Signal Systems 2013 Volume 1  No. 2355 TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2355 contains 10 papers that study cycle length; optimizing traffic signal timing; assessing agency-wide signal management objectives; estimating queue lengths at signalized intersections; and dynamic lane assignment at isolated signalized intersections. This […]

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Global infrastructure funding gap to widen to $500bn a year by 2030 – study

By on January 21, 2014 in Engineering news, News

  While the gap between global infrastructure investment needs and available public sector funds could reach $500-billion a year between now and 2030, institutional investors will likely increase their allocations to assist in filling the margin left by governments and banks, new analysis by Standard & Poor‘s (S&P’s) Ratings Services has revealed. According to a […]

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NCC to field e-tolls complaints

By on January 21, 2014 in Engineering news, News

Updated 3 hours ago Complaints about e-tolling will be taken up by the National Consumer Commission (NCC), but should not be the first line of complaint, Commissioner Ebrahim Mohamed said on Monday. “The NCC always encourages consumers to lodge complaints at the point of sale, and attempts to have their complaints dealt with there,” he […]

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Grindrod, PRIF create rail leasing JV company

By on January 21, 2014 in Engineering news, News

JSE-listed freight and logistics business Grindrod on Monday announced that its subsidiary, Grindrod Freight Services (GFS), had entered into a joint venture (JV) with the Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund (PRIF) to create a new company, GPR Leasing Africa, which would provide innovative and cost-effective leasing solutions to the African rail industry. Read more

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Engineering sector appeals to govt for greater inclusion in infrastructure planning

By on January 17, 2014 in Engineering news, News

  During an interview with Engineering News Online earlier this week, Consulting Engineers of South Africa (Cesa) CEO Lefadi Makibinyane asserted in strident commentary that the success of government’s national infrastructure plan would hinge on the degree to which it included private sector organisations specialising in the built environment, such as Cesa, in the planning […]

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SA’s first Web-based water reporting system to go live at end-2014

By on January 17, 2014 in Engineering news, News

“South Africa’s first publicly accessible, web-based, interactive surface and groundwater resources reporting system, that was being created as part of the Water Research Commission’s (WRC’s) ‘Water Resources (WR) 2012’ study would become functional by the end of this year, instead of, as was originally planned, in 2016 when the study was completed, the WRC said […]

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Production starts at Sephaku’s Delmas cement plant

By on January 17, 2014 in Engineering news, News

“Cement production has started at Sephaku Cement’s (SepCem’s) 1.4-million-ton-a-year Delmas milling plant, which would ramp up to full output by mid-2014.The cement producer has dispatched the first bags of cement from the plant – one of two significant projects being implemented by SepCem – to customers across Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Limpopo. “Building cement operations from […]

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TRB 11th International Conference on Low-Volume Roads

By on January 17, 2014 in Conferences, News

‘The Transportation Research Board (TRB) would like to invite you to attend the 11th International Conference on Low-Volume Roads, to be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, from July 12 – 15, 2015. The conference, which is held every four years, and organised for transport practitioners worldwide, will feature the latest information about low-volume road management, […]

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