New Metrorail coaches to arrive in 2015 as PRASA closes R51bn deal

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) and Gibela RailTransportation announced on Tuesday that it had achieved commercial close on the contract to supply the State agency with 600 commuter trains (3 600 coaches) over the next ten years. The deal would play a vital role in revitalising the ailing Metrorail passenger rail network. […]

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Developing Countries 2013

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Developing Countries, No. 2394 This record consists of 16 papers that explore travel time and space mean speed of nonmotorized vehicles; a review of India’s national urban investment program; assessment of public–private partnership in traveler information provision; low-mass urban microcars; transition Beijing, China to a transit city; and lessons of bus […]

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Statistical Methods and Visualization 2013

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2392 This paper consists of 7 papers that explore logistic regression models of the safety of large trucks; a comparison of sichel and negative binomial models in estimating empirical bayes estimates; symbolic data reduction for analysis of naturalistic driving data; the value of prior […]

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Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics 2013, Volume 2

Transportation Research Record : Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics 2013, Volume 2 Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2391 consists of 14 pages that explore modeling and assessment of local perturbations; speed synchronization process of merging vehicles from the entrance ramp; estimation of arterial travel time from automatic number plate recognition data; data-fitted first-order […]

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Transit 2013 Volume 3

Transportation Research Record: Transit 2013 Volume 3 No. 2352 This paper consists of 17 papers that explore operations of a taxi fleet using electric vehicles and charging stations; implementation costs of electric transit bus systems; improving rail station access with feeder bus network optimization and mode shifts; where to implement bus signal priority in mixed-mode […]

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Pedestrians 2013

Transportation Research Record : Pedestrians 2013 This document consists of 20 papers that examine an analysis of pedestrian performance in shared-space environments; using a smartphone application to support visually impaired pedestrians; pedestrian vehicle traffic conflicts; automated classification of pedestrian gender and age; driver compliance with pedestrian yield right-of-way laws; and development of the Canadian Pedestrian […]

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Informational Systems, Geospatial Information, State Data, and Advanced Computing 2013

 Transportation Research Record: Informational Systems, Geospatial Information, State Data, and Advanced Computing 2013. No. 2399. This document consists of 12 papers that explore the prediction of individual travel modes; predicting transportation time series; a stochastic network design problem with fuzzy goals; large-scale agent-based transport simulations; and the handling uncertainty in the transit project evaluation and […]

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Highway Capacity and Quality of Service 2013

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2395 This record consists of 15 papers that examine the breakdown maturity phenomenon at Wisconsin freeway bottlenecks; dynamic modeling of Vissim’s critical gap parameter at unsignalized intersections; the freeway facilities method in the Highway Capacity Manual; sensitivity testing of multimodal level of service in […]

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Hino SA moves to new plant in R54m investment, appoints new VP

Hino South Africa (SA) will open its new truck plant on May 21. Hino SA is a subsidiary of Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM). The truck plant has been relocated in a R54-million investment, as TSAM required additional space for production of the Quest Corolla sedan, as well as its taxi assembly line. The new […]

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Transnet pensioners get R178m windfall

About 67 000 retired Transnet employees and beneficiaries would be paid an ad hoc bonus equalling 8.33% of their yearly individual benefit by the end of April. Transnet on Tuesday said it approved R178-million to distribute among members of the Transnet Second Defined Benefit Fund (TSDBF) and the Transnet sub-fund, Transport Pension Fund (TTPF). This […]

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