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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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
Havenga, Jan H.Simpson, ZaneDe 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Havenga, Jan H.Simpson, ZaneFourie, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Swarts, StefaanKing, DavidSimpson, ZaneHavenga, Jan H.Goedhals-Gerber, Leila(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2012-11)
The purpose of this study is to quantify the marginal external costs associated with
freight transport in South Africa. Six cost elements are included as externality cost items,
namely, costs related to accidents, ...
Havenga, Jan H.(University of South Africa (Unisa), 2012)
South Africa’s annual State of Logistics survey indicates that the
majority of dense, long-distance surface freight is transported by
road, placing severe constraints on the country’s freight logistics
infrastructure ...
This paper investigates the suitable location for an intermodal inland container
terminal (IICT) in the city of Cape Town. A container market segmentation approach is
used to project growth for container volumes over a ...