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Funding for roads : understanding the South African road funding framework
(2019-09-30)Background: A good quality road network holds numerous benefits to any country, but is dependent on sufficient and stable modes of funding and adequate financing. Funding for roads in South Africa is complex, controversial ... -
Identifying temperature breaks in pome fruit and table grape export cold chains from South Africa to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands : a Western Cape case
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : There is a growing concern in the South African fruit industry of increasing losses, both financially and of the produce itself, as a result of temperature breaks in the export cold chain. This concern ... -
Identifying temperature breaks in the initial stages of the cold chain for Clementines and Navel oranges : a Western Cape case
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : South Africa is the second largest exporter of citrus fruits in the world, with only Spain exporting higher volumes. It is the country’s third most exported horticultural product after deciduous fruits ... -
A framework for sustainable road freight decarbonisation in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Local and international governments are becoming more aware of carbon emission outputs and the damage that these emissions are inflicting on the environment. The definite impact that carbon emissions have ... -
An investigation into consumer buying behaviour of alcoholic beverages in specialist retailer outlets in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The alcoholic beverage industry in South Africa is highly competitive, with thousands of brands competing for market share. Companies investing in advertising want to understand if they are getting a ... -
Unpacking the technical and perception barriers to electric vehicle uptake in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The rapid population growth and urbanization on the African continent exert ever more pressure on existing infrastructure, especially energy and transportation infrastructure, which is predominantly ... -
Evaluating packaging system performance and sourcing strategies of flexible packaging material in inbound supply, combined with the total cost of ownership impact analysis : a case study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Packaging contributes to product value as it protects, markets and extends the life of the content of the product. Packaging is manufactured in all shapes and sizes and from various materials, with one ... -
An agent-based simulation modelling approach to assessing various refuge strategies in Bt sugarcane
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Crops expressing genes from the bacterium Bacillus Thuringiensis (Bt) produce a protein toxic to members of the order Lepidoptera and are a popular alternative to sprayed insecticides. Although these ... -
The decarbonisation of transport logistics : a South African case study
(Unisa Press, 2018-10-09)South Africa is currently one of the "dirtiest" economies in the world in terms of carbon emissions. The South African economy is heavily dependent on energy-intensive industries, such as mining and primary minerals ... -
Maintaining cold chain integrity : temperature breaks within fruit reefer containers in the Cape Town Container Terminal
(University of South Africa, 2017)South Africa is among the top 10 fruit-exporting countries in the world. The South African fruit industry has identifi ed temperature breaks along the fruit export cold chain that result in the deterioration of fruit ... -
A multi-objective approach to the assignment of stock keeping units to unidirectional picking lines
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2017)An order picking system in a distribution centre consisting of parallel unidirectional picking lines is considered. The objectives are to minimise the walking distance of the pickers, the largest volume of stock on a picking ... -
A heuristic approach to the deterministic and stochastic air crew pairing problem
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The air crew pairing problem is a subproblem of the integrated airline management problem and one of the more complicated problems to solve in the field of transport logistics. There have been various ... -
Measuring efficiency in retail planning
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Efficiency is the measure of how well a process performs, and businesses are constantly looking for ways to improve their productivity. Traditional performance measures are commonly used and applied to ... -
Dynamic adjustment of size profiles
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Please refer to full text for abstract. -
Heuristic solution approaches to the fixed charge transportation problem
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The classical transportation problem is concerned with the distribution of a single commodity from a group of supply centres or sources, to a group of demand centres or destinations. The amount of commodity ... -
The existence of planar hypotraceable oriented graphs
(Discrete Mathematics & amp; Theoretical Computer Science, 2017)A digraph is \emph{traceable} if it has a path that visits every vertex. A digraph D is \emph{hypotraceable} if D is not traceable but D−v is traceable for every vertex v∈V(D). It is known that there exists a planar ... -
Automated examination timetabling with application to Stellenbosch University
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The examination timetabling problem (ETP) consists of scheduling the examination papers of students in such a way that no student is required to write two or more examination papers at the same time in ... -
The informed traveller : a proposed travel demand management intervention technique
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : It is widely believed that the average private vehicle user does not perceive their cost of travel accurately. This inaccurate perception of costs leads to a waste of resources and increased negative ... -
An evaluation of demand and capacity planning processes – a qualitative case study on completely-knocked-down vehicles at Mercedes-Benz Cars
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Sales and operations planning (S&OP) describes an integrated business management process, enabling management to achieve cross-functional focus and alignment throughout an organisation. This process plays ... -
Identifying temperature breaks in the export cold chain of navel oranges : a Western Cape case
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The South African citrus industry contributes significantly to the exportation of fresh fruit annually. South Africa is among the top-ten citrus producing countries in the world and it is the second largest ...
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