• Decision support for threat detection in maritime surveillance 

  Du Toit, Jacques (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The policing and monitoring of South Africa's coastline and economic exclusion zone is made di cult not only by the size of the area of interest, but also by the limited resources available for maritime ...
• The handling of fruit reefer containers in the Cape Town container terminal 

  Stander, Christo (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The South African fresh fruit export industry is concerned about fruit and financial losses due to temperature breaks within the fresh fruit export cold chain. The Port of Cape Town plays a crucial role ...
• Concave knapsack problems: Dataset A 

  Visagie, Stephan E   Van Eck, Liezl (2014-09-26)

  Dataset A for concave knapsack problems
• Dominant factors which influence wheat production in South Africa 

  Bester, Marius (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The protection of South Africa’s agricultural sector and in context, the wheat industry, is vital to ensure the food security and rural development of the country. The wheat industry contributes about R ...
• Supply chain configurations for the oil and gas industry : a service provider perspective 

  Theart, Alfred Llewellyn Mark (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Oil dependency has increased in the past few decades and the search for new reserves is a constant quest within the oil and gas industry. The oil and gas industry is characterised by the separation of ...
• Ensuring sufficient capacity of logistical infrastructure for future growth 

  Gebhardt, Albertus Johannes (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explore how forecasting techniques can be combined in linear programming (LP) as a tool to optimise the parameters of forecasting methods in order to ensure sufficient capacity of logistic ...
• On the (r,s)-domination number of a graph 

  Roux, Adriana (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The (classical) domination number of a graph is the cardinality of a smallest subset of its vertex set with the property that each vertex of the graph is in the subset or adjacent to a vertex in the subset. ...
• Picking line data set B 

  Visagie, Stephan E   Matthews, Jason (2014-02-27)

  This is a data set of picking lines that can by used for the comparison of the performance of different algorithms on the order sequencing and SKU location problem
• Picking line data set A 

  Visagie, Stephan E.   Matthews, Jason (2014-02-13)

  This is a data set of picking lines that can by used for the comparison of the performance of different algorithms
• South Africa's domestic intermodal imperative 

  Havenga, Jan H.   Simpson, Zane   De Bod, Anneke (Elsevier, 2012-12)

  An integrated alternative to road only or rail only transport does not exist in South Africa for domestic freight. This is in spite of the fact that national freight logistics costs are high, road infrastructure is challenged ...
• The importance of disaggregated freight flow forecasts to inform transport infrastructure investments 

  Havenga, Jan H. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013-09)

  This article presents the results of a comprehensive disaggregated commodity flow model for South Africa. The wealth of data available enables a segmented analysis of future freight transportation demand in order to ...
• The history of the rail transport regulatory environment in South Africa 

  Janse van Rensburg, R. A. J. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1996)

  OVERVIEW: State intervention in rail transport began in England with public demand for safety regulation which resulted in Lord Seymour's Act in 1840 and the Railway Gauges Act which followed in 1846. Approximately a ...
• Macro-logistics trends : indications for a more sustainable economy 

  Havenga, Jan H.   Simpson, Zane P.   De Bod, Anneke (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013-07)

  The North American and South African logistics cost calculation-time series are the two longest-running statistical series available worldwide. These calculations indicate that transportation’s contribution to logistics ...
• A mathematical model for the control of Eldana saccharina Walker using the sterile insect technique 

  Potgieter, Linke (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Two mathematical models are formulated in this dissertation for the population growth of an Eldana saccharina Walker infestation of sugarcane under the influence of partially sterile released insects. ...
• An analysis of temperature breaks in the summer fruit export cold chain from pack house to vessel 

  Haasbroek, Laura Marchand (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

  ENGLISH ABSTRACT: There is great concern in the fruit industry that too much fruit and money is lost each year due to breaks occurring in the export cold chain of fresh fruit. Therefore, the CSIR (Council for Scientific ...
• An investigation into the effectiveness of simulated annealing as a solution approach for the generator maintenance scheduling problem 

  Schlunz, E. B.   Van Vuuren, J. H. (Elsevier Ltd, 2013-04)

  The generator maintenance scheduling (GMS) problem is the difficult combinatorial optimisation problem of finding a schedule for the planned maintenance outages of generating units in a power system. The GMS model considered ...
• Sustainable freight transport in South Africa : domestic intermodal solutions 

  Havenga, Jan H.   Simpson, Zane   Fourie, Pieter F.   De Bod, Anneke (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2011-11)

  Due to the rapid deregulation of freight transport in South Africa two decades ago, and low historical investment in rail (with resultant poor service delivery), an integrated alternative to road and rail competition was ...
• Trade facilitation through logistics performance :the enabling role of national government 

  Havenga, Jan H. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2011-11)

  Despite two decades of visionary policies, problems within South Africa’s freight logistics system remain. Logistics costs are high, the current road and rail solutions will be unable to meet long-term demand for freight ...
• Forecasting South African containers for international trade : a commodity-based approach 

  Havenga, Jan H.   Van Eeden, Joubert (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2011-11)

  The most common approach used internationally for forecasting international trade containers is models based on the correlation between container trade and economic growth. While the strong historical correlation is ...
• Quantifying freight transport volumes in developing regions : lessons learnt from South Africa's experience during the 20th century 

  Havenga, Jan H.   Pienaar, W. J. (Taylor & Francis, 2012-12)

  A number of attempts were made during the 20th century to develop national freight flow information for South Africa. This paper discusses these contributions and attempts to identify the major reasons why the research did ...

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