Research Articles (Logistics)
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Dietary intake of the urban Black population of Cape Town : the cardiovascular risk in black South Africans (CRIBSA) study
(MDPI, 2016)Introduction: To determine dietary intake of 19 to 64 years old urban Africans in Cape Town in 2009 and examine the changes between 1990 and 2009. Methods: A representative cross-sectional sample (n = 544), stratified by ... -
Urban–rural inequalities in suicide mortality : a comparison of urbanicity indicators
(Biomed Central, 2017-10-30)Background: Urban–rural disparities in suicide mortality have received considerable attention. Varying conceptualizations of urbanity may contribute to the conflicting findings. This ecological study on Germany assessed ... -
Aanpassing van grootte-mengsels tydens voorraadtoewysing in 'n kettingwinkel
(LitNet, 2014-12)Die toewysing van voorraad aan winkels is een van die belangrike prosesse in die bestuur van ’n kettingwinkel. In die klerebedryf behels toewysingsbesluite onder andere die bepaling van hoeveelhede van elke grootte ... -
Simulation modelling as a decision support in developing a sterile insect-inherited sterility release strategy for Eldana saccharina (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)
(Florida Entomological Society, 2016)ENGLISH SUMMARY : A user-friendly simulation tool for determining the impact of the sterile insect technique/inherited sterility technique (SIT/IS) on populations of the African sugarcane stalk borer, Eldana saccharina ... -
Toward spatial justice : the spatial equity effects of a toll road in Cape Town, South Africa
(Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota, 2015)The present study sets out to provide an ex ante insight into the equity effects of a toll charge on the traffic diversions and geographical accessibility of work locations in the Cape Town metropolitan region, South Africa. ... -
Predicting the throughput of grain products at the multipurpose terminal at the Port of Cape Town
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Ports provide vital links in the maritime supply chains on which the trading of countries depend, and their efficiency and performance can contribute largely to the international competitiveness ... -
Freight corridor performance measurement system : a framework for South Africa
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: On a national level, South Africa’s freight logistics industry is inefficient. The country ranks 36th out of 40 countries in terms of transport productivity (tonne kilometres as a ratio of ... -
The temperature profile of an apple supply chain : a case study of the Ceres district
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: There is a logistical gap in the first section of the apple supply chain that affects the temperature profiles of apples further downstream in the supply chain. Objectives: This article’s ... -
The composite supply chain efficiency model : a case study of the Sishen-Saldanha supply chain
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)ENGLISH SUMMARY : As South Africa strives to be a major force in global markets, it is essential that South African supply chains achieve and maintain a competitive advantage. One approach to achieving this is to ensure ... -
A logistics barometer for South Africa : towards sustainable freight mobility
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: South Africa has a disproportionately high freight transport demand owing to industrial development far from ports, low domestic beneficiation and improper modal use. Historical freight ... -
The relationship between stunting and overweight among children from South Africa : secondary analysis of the National Food Consumption Survey – Fortification Baseline I
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2016-01)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Background: Globally, in children the prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing, and this is associated with an increased risk of noncommunicable diseases in adulthood. There is a need to examine ... -
On the solution of petrochemical blending problems with classical metaheuristics
(Operations Research Society of South Africa, 2016)ENGLISH SUMMARY : In this paper a comparison of classical metaheuristic techniques over different sizes of petrochemical blending problems is presented. Three problems are taken from the literature and used for initial ... -
SKU assignment to unidirectional picking lines using correlations
(Operations Research Society of South Africa, 2015-07)A real life order picking system consisting of a set of unidirectional picking lines is inves- tigated. Batches of stock keeping units (SKUs) are processed in waves defined as a set of SKUs and their corresponding store ... -
A review of dietary surveys in the adult South African population from 2000 to 2015
(MDPI, 2015-09)One serious concern of health policymakers in South Africa is the fact that there is no national data on the dietary intake of adult South Africans. The only national dietary study was done in children in 1999. Hence, it ... -
An analysis of the influence of logistics activities on the export cold chain of temperature sensitive fruit through the Port of Cape Town
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015-09)Background: South Africa exports a large variety of different fruit types and cultivars worldwide. Yet, there is concern in the South African fruit industry that too much fruit and money is lost each year due to breaks ...
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