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Benchmarking the performance of high capacity vehicles in South Africa

Author: Kemp, Lana ; De Saxe, Christopher C ; Berman, Robert P ; Steenkamp, Anton J Date: Jul 2019 The Smart Truck or Performance-Based Standards (PBS) pilot project in South Africa has been running since 2007, and currently comprises approximately 280 vehicles operational in seven provinces, spanning fourteen different industries or ... Read more
Improving car-carrier safety through Performance-Based Standards

Author: De Saxe, C Date: Oct 2012 In this presentation, the author discusses aspects of his MSc research, including outlining the development and application of a low-speed vehicle manoeuvrability model and presenting the PBS assessment results for one particular car-carrier design. Read more
Monitoring results of PBS vehicles in South Africa in terms of productivity, safety and road wear performance

Author: Nordengen, Paul A Date: Jul 2013 As part of a Performance-Based Standards (PBS) research programme for heavy vehicles in South Africa, a need was identified to design, manufacture and operate a number of PBS or Smart Truck demonstration vehicles in order to gain practical ... Read more
Operating costs: PBS vs conventional heavy vehicles in South Africa

Author: Steenkamp, Anton J ; Venter, Karien ; De Saxe, Christopher ; Kemp, Lana Date: Jul 2021 Road transport is a highly competitive industry and is renowned for low profit margins. Road transport however accounts for almost 6 % of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and is the backbone of the economy. The Performance-Based Standards ... Read more
A Pro-Forma approach to Car-Carrier Design

Author: Benade, R ; Berman, R ; Kienhöfer, F ; Nordengen, Paul A Date: Nov 2016 In this work a pro-forma approach is developed for assessing truck and centre-axle tag-trailer or 50/50 car-carrier designs in terms of their compliance with the South African Performance-Based Standards (PBS) pilot project requirements. ... Read more
Smart infrastructure access policy: a highway towards more efficient road transport

Author: Kural, K ; de Saxe, Christopher C ; Kharrazi, S ; Asp, T ; Kraaijenhagen, B ; Pauwelussen, J Date: Apr 2018 This paper describes interim results of the ongoing CEDR-funded "FALCON" project, which aims to introduce a step improvement in transport efficiency in Europe through the definition of a new performance-oriented legislative framework for road ... Read more
Tail swing performance of the South African car-carrier fleet

Author: De Saxe, C ; Kienhofer, F ; Nordengen, Paul A Date: Sep 2012 The practice of issuing of abnormal load permits to South African car-carriers (allowing a 300 mm increase in height and 500 mm increase in length) is being phased out. Such allowances will only be granted if a car-carrier complies with the ... Read more

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