Thredbo Series: Recent submissions
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A City in Motion: Rethinking Urban Mobility through Sustainable Transport Systems
Published 2024-12-06This paper examines the growing challenges of urban transportation in a world facing environmental and social pressures. The paper proposes a paradigm shift towards sustainable transport systems, prioritizing the well-being ...Open AccessConference paper -
Evolution of bus rapid transit concepts in Sub-Saharan Africa: towards lighter design and incremental deployment
Published 2024-12-06While Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has matured into a standardised set of technologies worldwide, its slow adoption in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) cities has raised questions about its suitability in some contexts. A number of ...Open AccessConference paper -
We are not all the same: Preference-Based Market Segmentation among Public Transport Users in Soweto, South Africa
Published 2024-12-06Identifying travel needs and preferences of different market segments is important in planning public transport systems. Preference-based market segmentation has been researched globally but rarely in the Sub-Saharan African ...Open AccessConference paper -
‘Food Deserts’ Theory Applied in the Field of Road Safety: Testing the Impact of Traffic Analysis Zone Size in Cape Town
Published 2024-12-06Motivated by the extremely high road fatality rates in South Africa (Vanderschuren et al., 2017), the authors are on a quest to improve road safety analysis methodologies, adapting the “Desert theory (Wrigley et al., 2002; ...Open AccessConference paper -
Governance, locations and amenities of hubs – places that connect and intertwine mobility, energy and social networks
Published 2024-12-06A network of hubs could help to deal more efficiently with valuable public space and improve accessibility in cities. This paper aims to enhance Advier’s existing draft design principle, which can determine promising ...Open AccessConference paper