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13 April 2010
Some of the key areas for this year’s Transport Budget Vote include transport plans for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, road infrastructure maintenance and empowerment of the taxi industry.
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08 April 2010
Pretoria — Preliminary figures released by traffic authorities on Thursday have shown a significant drop in the number fatal accidents on South Africa's roads during the past Easter weekend.
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31 March 2010
MEC Ghishma Barry to launch an Easter weekend road safety special project in Port Elizabeth
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30 March 2010
Every year during Easter and December, fatal and serious injuries on our roads take centre stage. This would only be stopped if South Africans worked together to stop the carnage by simply obeying all road rules, making the safety of other road users a priority and spreading the spirit of ubuntu.
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30 March 2010
Jub Jub's car after crashWith South African Hip Hop artist Molemo "Jub Jub" Maarohanye headlining the news lately after he was involved in a car crash while allegedly drag racing with his friend Themba Tshabalala when they hit and killed four Soweto school pupils, the Minister of Transport, Sibusiso Ndebele has called out to South Africa's road users.
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25 March 2010
Pretoria — Road users are urged to adhere to road regulations during the Easter weekend as they travel to their respective destinations. The Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC), said statistics show that approximately 47 percent of drivers and 70 percent of adult pedestrians are involved in fatal crashes during that time.
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24 March 2010
Gauteng metro police confiscated the licences of 12 long-distance buses in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
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21 March 2010
Johannesburg - Two people were in a critical condition in hospital after a motorcycle accident in Eersterust on Sunday, paramedics said.
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21 March 2010
The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health is observing the World Head Injury awareness Day on the 20 March 2010
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09 March 2010
Cape Town - The Provincial Government of the Western Cape has reaffirmed its support for the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour through a number of valuable contributions and commitments, the most important being new innovations with regard to emergency medical services, renewed efforts to ensure road safety for cyclists, and boosting the development of promising young cyclists from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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26 February 2010
In about 100 days, the world’s attention will be on South Africa when we host the most spectacular event in the history of African sport, the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Efficient transportation of spectators and road safety will be a priority to making this event a memorable success.
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10 February 2010
Career engineers required for local service delivery.
If South Africa is to come to grips with the debilitating problem of inadequate service delivery at particularly municipal and provincial government levels, greater urgency needs to be injected into the debate on and declared intentions to establish a more professional and depoliticised civil service corps. Working in professional positions in the government should become a career and not short-term contractual appointments. This was one of the main messages from the annual media breakfast of the Consulting Engineers South Africa (Cesa) last week. While also from other sources, the news was that the country is heading for a number of serious infrastructure-related crises.
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10 February 2010
Inadequate capacity and the poor condition of the road network in the country are adding an additional or avoidable R200 billion cost factor to the collective transport bill of South African road users.
This was the assessment of the South African Road Federation (SARF) in a statement released mid February this year.
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10 February 2010
It looks like a long, hard slog
The road transport and logistics sector is cautiously optimistic that better days are ahead. But industry experts warn that it will be a hard battle to undo the devastation caused by the 2009 recession.
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10 February 2010
The skills gap has become a yawning chasm – will transport and logistics be swallowed by the abyss?
Already beset with a serious skills shortage in many areas, the South African transport and logistics industry faced an even more daunting challenge with the introduction of the so-called “technology truck” at the turn of the millennium.
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07 January 2010
The Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) yesterday rejected claims that government road death statistics were a “sham”, after allegations that the figures did not add up. The RTMC, a Department of Transport agency responsible for road traffic management across SA, said there were 1333 fatalities in December 2008, compared with 1050 deaths in December last year, indicating that the road death figures for December fell 21% last year.
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04 January 2010
Michael de Broglio: "Every year the department of transport announces that road deaths are down. Reporters attribute this to the minister, etcetera". In fact, in 11 years the road death toll has doubled in South Africa. So has December become a safer period or is the media being fed misleading figures?
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27 December 2009
About 840 people were killed while more than 280,000 drivers have been fined for speeding on South African roads since the beginning of December holidays, the Department of Transport said.
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18 December 2009
This is it! Let the party begin …
You’re young, hip and happening – you’re free at last and you can let your hair down – BIG TIME! School’s finally OUT and you’re hitting the road. This is where the FUN starts.
Go for it – you’ve earned your stripes.
But
Don’t make this TRIP your last one!
Be sure to survive your beach bash and see the rest of your life unfold!
HAVE A BLAST, DON’T BECOME A MEMORY FROM THE PAST!
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14 December 2009
A total of 186 people have died in road accidents during December thus far, the transport department said on Sunday.
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09 December 2009
Four people died and 62 others were injured when their bus overturned on Moloto road in Kameelsdrift outside Pretoria on Wednesday morning, paramedics said.
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06 December 2009
Johannesburg — With the festive season just around the corner, government will be stepping up efforts to curb road crashes during this busy period on the roads.
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18 November 2009
While trawling the Internet we stumbled across a though provoking article on a New Zealand website. That country is up in arms over the number of young people dying on its roads.
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13 October 2009
Highlighting the urgency of beefing up road safety on the continent, Nkosi said this figure would outstrip deaths caused by malaria and the HIV/Aids pandemic.
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11 October 2009
Pretoria - "As above" is the address to which thousands of traffic-fine notices issued each month are erroneously sent at a cost of R3m in postage.
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29 September 2009
ComutaNet, South African commuter advertising company recently joined forces with petroleum giant Engen to promote road and paraffin safety amongst commuters residing in South Africa's informal settlements.
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26 August 2009
South Africa was on the right track when it came to road safety, expert in the field Dr Pieter Venter said on Wednesday.
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26 August 2009
Cape Town - South Africa was on the right track when it came to road safety, expert in the field Pieter Venter said on Wednesday.
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17 August 2009
The objectives of the conference are to share expertise, best practice models and experiences in the areas of Traffic Enforcement, Accident Investigations and Reconstructions and Road Safety Education and Communication, thereby improving service delivery in these disciplines.
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14 August 2009
Motorists leaving Cape Town’s city centre on Friday afternoon faced massive delays on all routes out of the city, after a truck carrying heavy bales of grain overturned on the N1.
The outgoing lane of the major highway towards Paarl was closed while emergency teams attended to the accident.
The accident happened at about 10:30 on Friday morning, when two trucks collided and overturned on the N1 outgoing just after Koeberg Interchange, at a new deviation in the road.
No one was injured, but people leaving their offices early on Friday were unlikely to find alternative routes home.
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29 July 2009
The headline, Taxi drivers want time to adjust to BRT (July 28) gives an accurate impression of the views of the Nelson Mandela Bay Public Transport Forum.
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22 July 2009
What does it take to improve the safety of our younger generation and especially our younger drivers/students on the roads? We often find great safety ideas and then we lack the necessary implementation of these ideas…
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08 July 2009
Ministers, high level government officials and road safety activists from across Africa have pledged support for a UN Decade of Action for Road Safety on their continent and around the world.
The pan-African conference met in Dar es Salaam Tanzania, on 8 July 2009, to review the growing epidemic of road injury on the continent and to pledge support for a push to secure the proposal for a UN Decade of Action for Road Safety . The Make Roads Safe Africa conference was organised by the Make Roads Safe campaign, the World Bank Global Road Safety Facility, the AA of Tanzania and the UN Economic Commission for Africa.
Africa has the most dangerous roads in the world, measured by death rate per population, and has so far only avoided a catastrophic explosion of road deaths because of relatively low motorisation and an undeveloped road network.
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23 June 2009
Johannesburg, 23 June 2009 – TomTom, the world’s leading provider of navigation solutions and digital maps today announces the introduction of a new route planner that will be accessible via http://routes.tomtom.com. The route planner for Southern Africa is available in both English and Afrikaans.
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18 June 2009
South Africa has one of the ten highest road traffic fatality rates in the world, and almost half of those victims are poor, vulnerable road users.
The World Health Organisation’s Global Status Report on Road Safety, released in mid-June, found that almost half of the approximately 1.27-million people who die each year in road crashes are pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists (together known as vulnerable road users), and noted that clearly, more action is needed to make the world's roads safer.
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11 June 2009
ROAD ACCIDENT STATISTICS (N4 Toll Route: April holiday period – these statistics are for the existing N4 Toll Route from Pretoria to Maputo). 120 accidents were recorded on the N4 Toll Route during April 2009. These include 86 accidents in South Africa and 34 in Mozambique.
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05 June 2009
Now also available in Limpopo Province and KwaZulu Natal, ADreach's Sponsored Road Traffic Signs are set to save even more lives on South Africa's roads.
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22 May 2009
Walvis Bay, Namibia 26 February 2009 – It is not just h igh transport costs that impede intra-regional and external trade in the Africa sub-region; bribery and long delays on the trade corridors are also hampering factors, according to the conclusions of a trade facilitation workshop on the promotion of intra-African trade, which ended in Walvis Bay, Namibia on 26 February 2009.
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22 May 2009
The Make Roads Safe recommendations for safer road design were presented at a meeting of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) attended by leading G8 donors.
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22 May 2009
National Department of Transport Press release:
All motorists are warned to exercise caution on the roads in order to reduce the number of accidents on South Africa's road over the Easter period. The Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) supports the Retail Motor Industry (RMI) which together with National Vehicle Testing Association (NVTA) are currently running a road safety campaign from 1 to 9 April 2009. The campaign is called Free Easter Vehicle Safety Check. It is aimed at examining as many vehicles as possible with regard to the condition and effectiveness of safety critical items, such as brakes, tyres, steering, suspension and lighting. It is encouraged that all motorists should do a pre-trip inspection before their departure so they can avoid unnecessary delays and accidents on the road.
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22 May 2009
Johannesburg - Vehicle testing stations will offer free vehicle safety checks from Wednesday in an attempt to reduce road accidents over the Easter period, the National Vehicle Testing Association said.
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30 April 2009
One of South Africa's biggest toll road concession companies has welcomed plans to introduce an electronic open-road tolling (ORT) system on the country's highways, but has emphasized that it has no plans to scrap all toll barriers.
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30 April 2009
The City of Cape Town has intensified traffic enforcement and road safety during the school holiday period and ahead of the Easter weekend.
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30 April 2009
Johannesburg - Vehicle testing stations will offer free vehicle safety checks from Wednesday in an attempt to reduce road accidents over the Easter period, the National Vehicle Testing Association said.
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30 April 2009
Jacob Zuma has put the world-class Bus Rapid Transit system on ice pending further talks after taxi drivers threatened an election day strike.
Zuma said he did not realise how serious the objections from taxi bosses were until they went on strike last month and came to the ANC's office to hand him a memorandum.
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30 April 2009
KwaZulu-Natal has developed a researched, multi-faceted approach to road safety.
This is according to the MEC for Transport, Community Safety and Liaison, Bheki Cele, who was speaking on Tuesday at the launch of the Easter Road Safety campaign in Mtunzini, on the North Coast.
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25 February 2009
The Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA) Fund said this week that it failed to achieve its target of a 30% decrease in road fatalities during the 2008 festive season.
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16 February 2009
“The World Report on Child Injury Prevention, published by the World Health Organization and Unicef, has highlighted the enormous challenge of curbing child road deaths”, said Petro Kruger, Director of the RMI Road Safety Foundation.
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23 January 2009
The success of Africa's exports, as well as its spatial development, depends on lowering transport costs.
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23 January 2009
Johannesburg — THE reduction in the number of road deaths in SA over the festive season seems to suggests that the country's perennial road carnage is finally being reversed, but analysts are sceptical.
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23 January 2009
South Africa’s R600-billion public infrastructure programme has emerged as the “only game in town” as mining and industrial projects are realigned to the reality for slower growth.
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23 January 2009
The bicycle has been hailed as having done "more than anything else in the world…to emancipate women" -- the words of 19th century American feminist Susan B. Anthony. But for many women in South Africa, culture and tradition make it difficult to take advantage of the increased mobility and access to social and economic opportunities, not to mention the reduced carbon footprint, offered by bicycles.
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12 January 2009
Trade volumes along the Trans Kalahari, Trans Caprivi and Trans Cunene corridors have increased from 174,299 tonnes to 282,031 tonnes, representing a growth rate of more than 61.8% on tonnage shipped between 2007 and 2008, according to Johny Smith, Business Development Executive of the Walvis Bay Corridor Group (WBCG).
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12 January 2009
Despite high traffic volumes this Christmas season, most provincial statistics record a decrease in the number of road deaths since the beginning of December.
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22 December 2008
Traffic law enforcement has been defined as the area of activity aimed at controlling road user behaviour by preventive, persuasive and punitive measures in order to effect the safe and efficient movement of traffic.
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22 December 2008
When a country, province or municipality wants to have a integrated public transport system in place, all modes of transport should work together with the aim of moving passengers effectively and hassle free to and from their destinations.
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22 December 2008
Traffic congestion affects thousands of people daily in Gauteng. In rush hour traffic, the impact of accidents and the resulting delays add to the general frustration of road users.
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22 December 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 of improvement of IAM policy and practice in the public sector.
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25 November 2008
South Africa will invest US$15.96 billion in transport for an estimated 450,000 visitors during the 2010 World Cup,Transport Minister Jeff Radebe said on 23 November 2008
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09 October 2008
Urban Transport Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recommendations for Reform in Uganda
(Journal of the Transportation Research Board)
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09 October 2008
The global burden of injuries is enormous, but has often been overlooked in attempts to improve health. We review measures that would strengthen existing efforts to prevent and treat injuries worldwide. Scientifically-based efforts to understand risk factors for the occurrence of injury are needed and they must be translated into prevention programmes that are well designed and assessed. Areas for potential intervention include environmental modification, improved engineering features of motor vehicle and other products, and promotion of safe behaviours through social marketing, legislation, and law enforcement.
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09 October 2008
A partnership towards sustainable transport: the urban TRAN:SIT model
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09 October 2008
Research needs on traffic management and safety : the local authority's perspective
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09 October 2008
An intelligent transport system for controlling traffic lights on bus-rapid transit (BRT) routes in Johannesburg.
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08 October 2008
Access to relative space and quality of life in peri-urban communities of smaller towns of South Africa : public transport towns of South Africa : public transport insights from the Limpopo Province.
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08 October 2008
Sapa South Africa's current Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) limit of 0.05 percent should be lowered to 0.02 percent for all drivers, the Automobile Association of South Africa said on Wednesday. AASA spokesman Rob Handfield-Jones said the crisis on South Africa's roads demanded this tougher approach.
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08 October 2008
Shocking statistics on unroadworthy and unlicensed vehicles emerge at the corruption trial of a testing-centre employee
Almost one in 10 vehicles on South Africa’s roads is unroadworthy and unlicensed — and a major contributing factor to the estimated R50-billion carnage on the country’s roads each year.
These statistics emerged at the corruption trial of an employee at a testing centre in Durban, who sold roadworthy certificates for cars and taxis he had not even seen for as little as R100.
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08 October 2008
High performance and sports car drivers are most likely to be victims of road rage, according to a recent road rage survey by Synovate. This is true of road rage behaviours including persistent flashing headlights, hooting, rude gestures and insults, as well as aggressive driving behaviour. Of those that have reported being the victim of road rage where another driver actually got out of their vehicles, most are reported by drivers of small cars.
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08 October 2008
In the urban areas of South Africa the provision of parking has historically been based on town planning schemes formulated by local authorities.The parking requirements in these town planning schemes were established from the results of numerous surveys that observed the actual use of parking spaces and related the demand on specific attributes of land use, and depending on the land use these could be unit of leasable floor area, availability of seats, availability of beds or the number of employees, in order to derive parking demand rates for design purposes.
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08 October 2008
Based on the life cycle dynamics of the South African population, the paper investigates the implications of such dynamics on the design requirements of public transport services.
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08 October 2008
In South Africa, airport and airline services epitomise what many would like to see in everyday public transport.
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08 October 2008
The improved access to transport and traffic data by researchers will greatly benefit general Research & Development (R&D) in the fields of road traffic and safety engineering, and traffic management. Obtaining historic data for transport and traffic related research work is generally found to be cumbersome and frustrating. Commensurate validity and verification concerns as well as incoherencies and uncertainties vested in available transport/ traffic data, inevitably add to the complexity of analyses and the level of innovative contextualisation required to apply said towards inferences intended to guide transport/traffic management policy- and decision-making.
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08 October 2008
Traffic law enforcement has been defined as the area of activity aimed at controlling road user behaviour by preventive, persuasive and punitive measures in order to effect the safe and efficient movement of traffic. The Department of Transport launched the Road to Safety Strategy in 2001 aimed at addressing serious policy and implementation issues dealing with attitudes such as those that entail behaviour personified in risky / dangerous / bad behaviour.
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08 October 2008
When a country, province or municipality wants to have a integrated public transport system in place, all modes of transport should work together with the aim of moving passengers effectively and hassle free to and from their destinations.
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08 October 2008
The 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup, a multi-city event drawing visitors from around the world into the existing South-African transportation system, provides an opportunity to showcase and learn about the impact of different passenger transport service design strategies. However, bid and subsequent planning documents for the event have focused on macro issues relating to the envisaged public transport systems.
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18 February 2008
Specific road improvements as well as the integration of the freeway improvement scheme with public transport, and travel demand management have been identified, and the toll feasibility has been investigated
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15 February 2008
An electronic fare collection system (EFCS) for public transport modes should be formalised by the first quarter of this year, says Department of Transport director for public transport policies Ibrahim Seedat.
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31 January 2008
An electronic fare collection system (EFCS) for South Africa's new, and existing, public transport modes should be
formalised by the first quarter of this year.
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28 January 2008
Standards South Africa has formally published the SANS 504 and SANS 24535 standards relating to RFID systems in the transportation sector.
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21 November 2007
Johannesburg's public transport system remains a challenge for the government and the 2010 World Cup organisers as it is still considered unreliable and unsafe.
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29 October 2007
New bus system is designed to transform the way we travel.
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24 October 2007
Kapsch TrafficCom South Africa (Pty) Ltd. - founded in March and part of the Kapsch TrafficCom AB, Sweden
organisation - has won its first major order.
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23 October 2007
The South African Bus Operators Association (Saboa) is concerned that SA will not have enough buses to maintain the normal local operations and to cope with the increased demand for public transport during the 2010 Soccer World Cup tournament.
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23 October 2007
A proposal to build tollgates on Gauteng’s freeways is gaining momentum, with the public being given 30 days to make written submissions.
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23 October 2007
The SA government has allocated R9-billion to the Public Transport Infrastructure and Systems Fund to improve public transport infrastructure.
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08 October 2007
Motorists will be able to determine just how safe South Africa’s roads are
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25 September 2007
European Union and South African officials met in Pretoria and Stellenbosch on 10-14 July 2007, agreeing an Action Plan and adopting a Joint Statement on co-operative surface transport R&D.
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03 September 2007
The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and the South African Department of Science and Technology has agreed to an Action Plan for promoting surface transport R&D cooperation between the European Union and South Africa.
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27 August 2007
The SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) plans to install 76 electronic tollbooths along the Gauteng highway system, to generate cash for a 2010 Soccer World Cup-linked infrastructure upgrade.
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27 August 2007
Logistics cost in South Africa increased by 9% from 2004 to 2005, to reach R223-billion.
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20 August 2007
The South African province of Gauteng is to undertake a US$3.1 billion upgrade programme on the heavily congested N1 freeway
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16 August 2007
The South African province of Gauteng is to undertake a US$3.1 billion upgrade programme on the heavily congested N1 freeway
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01 August 2007
KwaZulu-Natal project will provide clear guidelines on how to improve province’s roads to prevent accidents
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01 August 2007
The R7,7-billion recapitalisation project aims to replace South Africa’s fleet of about 100 000 minibus taxis with new vehicles which adhere to stringent safety specifications
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01 August 2007
Sanral will roll out a multimillion-rand e-tagging solution to revolutionise the collection of tolls on the country's highways
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26 July 2007
Driving and commuting are central to our daily life. We rely on them for getting to work, going on holidays, keeping in touch with our friends, and having our goods delivered.
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10 April 2007
The new, electronic system (e-Natis) would have enhanced law enforcement capabilities and would allow people to do transactions over the internet and using ATMs instead of physically visiting traffic departments.
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10 April 2007
The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) is beginning the implementation of an extensive transport plan in preparation for the 2010 soccer World Cup.
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02 October 2006
The Transport Ministry in South Africa launches a pilot project on its highways to improve traffic information for drivers.
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