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Assessing the roll stability of heavy vehicles in South Africa

Author: Benade, R ; Berman, RJ ; Kienhöfer, F ; Nordengen, Paul A Date: Jul 2016 In South Africa there are approximately 12.5 truck-crash-related fatalities per 100 million kilometres travelled. This is between 4 and 10 times higher than a number of European countries such as Denmark, France, Germany and Switzerland and ... Read more
Baseline axle load survey in Malawi - 2014

Author: Roux, Michael P ; Lotter, S ; Nordengen, Paul A Date: Jul 2015 As part of the project to update the Malawian Directorate of Road Transport and Safety Services’ (DRTSS) 2005 Axle Load Control Strategy and to provide a five-year implementation plan, a country-wide axle load survey was undertaken to assess ... Read more
Bridge management system for the Western Cape provincial government, South Africa: implementation and utilization

Author: Nell, AJ ; Nordengen, Paul A ; Newmark, A Date: Oct 2008 This paper describes the implementation and utilization of the bridge management system (BMS) of the Department of Transport and Public Works of the Western Cape Provincial Government. The implementation of the BMS as well as the visual ... Read more
Bridge management systems: An asset management tool for road structures

Author: Nordengen, Paul A Date: Oct 2012 This presentation addresses the development and implementation of bridge management systems for various road authorities in southern Africa and the Middle East. Read more
Cost estimation of road wear due to heavy vehicles on the Namibian paved network

Author: Kemp, Lana ; Nordengen, Paul A ; Steenkamp, Anton J ; Ithana, T Date: Oct 2018 This paper presents the results of a newly-developed methodology that quantifies the road wear caused by heavy vehicles on the Namibian paved road network in terms of equivalent standard axles and a monetary value. This was achieved by ... Read more
CSIR’s advocacy and support of infrastructure asset management

Author: Wall, K ; Nordengen, Paul A ; Abbott, G ; Paige-Green, P ; Roux, Michael P Date: Nov 2008 That increasing attention is being paid to infrastructure asset management (IAM) is timely, and owes something to the work of the CSIR in discovering and documenting the state of infrastructure, and in leading specific aspects of the process ... Read more
Designing heavy vehicles to be safer and more productive using PBS

Author: Kienhöfer, FW ; Dessein, T ; Nordengen, Paul A Date: Jul 2013 The perception may exist in the transport industry among both operators and legislators that commercial vehicle productivity comes at the expense of safety. This is not strictly true. It is possible for a vehicle to have a substantially larger ... Read more
The development and evaluation of a performance-based standards approach for regulating the use of heavy vehicles in South Africa

Author: Nordengen, Paul A Date: Dec 2013 The aim of this research was to apply, refine and demonstrate an alternative approach to the design and operation of heavy vehicles in South Africa with improved outcomes in terms of road transport productivity, vehicle safety performance, ... Read more
Development and implementation of a bridge management system for South African road and rail authorities

Author: Nordengen, Paul A ; De Fleuriot, E Date: Dec 1998 This paper describes a bridge management system (BMS) developed in South Africa for various road and rail authorities including the South African National Road Agency, Spoornet (the South African rail authority), the Cape Town City Council, ... Read more
Development and implementation of a Bridge Management System for the Provincial Government of the Western Cape, South Africa

Author: Nordengen, Paul A ; Nell, AJ Date: Apr 2005 This paper describes the development and implementation of a bridge management system for the Provincial Government Western Cape (PGWC). During the first phase of the project, the inventory and inspection modules were customised to meet the ... Read more
Development of a vehicle load control strategy for Malawi for the period 2016 to 2020

Author: Roux, Michael P ; Lotter, S ; Nordengen, Paul A Date: Jul 2016 In an effort to improve the effectiveness of overload control the Malawi Directorate of Road Transport and Safety Services (DRTSS) appointed two Short Term Experts from the CSIR to assist with the updating of the DRTSS’s 2005 Axle Load Control ... Read more
Development of an overload control strategy for the Republic of Senegal

Author: Nordengen, Paul A ; Coetzee, S ; Roux, Michael P ; Adolehoume, AP Date: Sep 2006 The Republic of Senegal has approximately 15 000 km of roads of which 4 300 km are paved. Senegal’s road network is considered to be one of the best in West Africa. One of the threats to the Senegal road network is overloaded heavy vehicles, ... Read more
Evaluation of a performance-based standards approach to heavy vehicle design to reduce pavement wear

Author: Nordengen, Paul A ; Roux, Michael P Date: Nov 2013 As a result of successful initiatives in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, the introduction of a performance-based standards (PBS) approach in the heavy vehicle sector in South Africa was identified by the Council for Scientific and Industrial ... Read more
Evaluation of the Road Transport Management System, a self-regulation initiative in heavy vehicle transport in South Africa

Author: Nordengen, Paul A ; Naidoo, OJ Date: Apr 2014 This paper describes the recent developments of an initiative to introduce meaningful self-regulation in the South African heavy vehicle transport sector using the Road Transport Management System (RTMS) standards. The RTMS standards require ... Read more
Heavy vehicle safety performance

Author: Deiss, J ; Kienhöfer, F ; Nordengen, Paul A ; De Saxe, Christopher C ; Berman, Robert J ; Steenkamp, Anton J Date: Oct 2018 Significant benefits have been realised in South Africa from adopting the PBS framework in the form of reduced fuel consumption, CO2 emissions, road wear, trips and crashes. Three representative baseline PBS vehicles were developed (a quad-axle ... Read more
Hyperformance: Advanced PBS Performance Prediction

Author: Berman, Robert J ; Rosman, Benjamin S ; Van Niekerk, B ; Nordengen, Paul A Date: Oct 2018 The ever increasing global freight task brings with it a number of challenges for road freight transportation. The combination of high-capacity vehicles and Performance-based Standards (PBS) is proving to be a viable and sustainable option ... Read more
Hyperformance: predicting high-speed performance of a b-double

Author: Berman, Robert J ; Benade, R ; Rosman, Benjamin S ; Nordengen, Paul A Date: Nov 2016 This paper presents a data driven approach to develop a prediction model for the PBS performance of heavy vehicles. A gap exists between trailer manufacturers who create PBS vehicle designs and the PBS assessors who evaluate the performance ... Read more
Implementation of a bridge management system in the municipal environment

Author: Nordengen, Paul A ; Roux, Michael P Date: Oct 2006 This paper describes the implementation of a bridge management system (BMS) in the municipal environment, with specific reference to the City of Cape Town, the Johannesburg Roads Agency and the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality. ... Read more
Implementation of a bridge management system in the municipal environment

Author: Nordengen, Paul A ; Roux, Michael P Date: Oct 2006 This paper describes the implementation of a bridge management system (BMS) in the municipal environment, with specific reference to the City of Cape Town, the Johannesburg Roads Agency and the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality. ... Read more
Improving heavy vehicle safety and road transport efficiency: a Performance-Based Standards approach in South Africa

Author: Nordengen, Paul A ; de Saxe, Christopher C ; Berman, Robert J ; Steenkamp, Anton J ; Deiss, J Date: Apr 2018 As part of a performance-based standards (PBS) research programme for heavy vehicles in South Africa, a need was identified to design and operate a number of PBS demonstration vehicles in a pilot project. The purpose of the project is to gain ... Read more

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