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Accepted Papers

The papers are divided into four themes as follows:


THEME 1:  ECONOMIC GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT

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Economic Growth & Development 021 Optimal Transportation Cost Withdrawn
Economic Growth & Development 029 Performance of waterbound macadam pavements constructed labour intensively: case study RJ Moloisane W van Wyngaard
Economic Growth & Development 059 Blacktop roads to developing communities using appropriate technologies Krishna Naidoo Roger Purchase; Trevor Distin
Economic Growth & Development 073 Project Vuk'Uhambe (A project of Social upliftment, empowerment and poverty alleviation through road rehabilitation using the unemployed) Stephen Brand Mark Bondietti; Mike Winfield; Gawie Burger
Economic Growth & Development 101 Whole of Life Costing - incorporating ownership issues and design risk Vos RM Youdale, G
Economic Growth & Development 107 Complexities of infrastructure financing and provision: a case study of rural road infrastructure in Ingwavuma District, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa Sam Muradzikwe n/a

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THEME 2:  EFFICIENT ROAD PROVISION & MAINTENANCE

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Efficient Road Provision & Maintenance 006 Improving the Effectiveness of Road Delivery: The South African Approach Withdrawn
Efficient Road Provision & Maintenance 033 Sustainable provision of low volume sealed roads MI Pinard PAK Greening
Efficient Road Provision & Maintenance 063 The Management of Quality in Road Evaluation and Assessment with the Use of Mobile GIS in Johannesburg, South Africa S Truman N Gale; K Schaffrath; P Olivier
Efficient Road Provision & Maintenance 064 Restructuring the Management of Johannesburg's Roads A Agaienz Y Mistry; K Schaffrath & PA Olivier
Efficient Road Provision & Maintenance 097 Performance-Based Pay Factors for Asphalt Concrete Construction C.L. Monismith L. Popescu; J.T. Harvey; T.P. Hoover
Efficient Road Provision & Maintenance 108 Cost and Quality Issues in Road Concession Contracts P Alexander DW Burger; G Esterhuysen; JJ Smit & A Taute
Efficient Road Provision & Maintenance 110 Asphalt Pavements : European experiences with performance guarantee and/or product guarantee systems Michel Démarre,  Étienne le Bouteiller;
Efficient Road Provision & Maintenance 111 Public Private Partnership - A Mindshift in Quality Control Nazir Alli Koos Smit
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THEME 3:  HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT

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Human Capital Development 028 Building Capacity by mentoring mathematics and Science Teachers Emile Horak Irene Fricke
Human Capital Development 078 The State of Tertiary Education in Pavement Engineering in South Africa KJ Jenkins LR Sampson
Human Capital Development 083 Why are Black Owned Contractors Unable to Penetrate the Blacktop Industry in KwaZulu Natal? Mbongiseni Gcaba R Purchase; T Distin
Human Capital Development 087 TRAC - Promoting SET Careers with Transportation as a Focus Dr WR Duff-Ridell
Human Capital Development 092 Integrating Capacity Building in Education and Training of Civil Engineering Withdrawn
Human Capital Development 099 Transformation of a provincial routine ROAD maintenance UNIT in South Africa E Horak SE Emery; S Amod; J Weideman; I Joubert
Human Capital Development 109 Small Contractor Development in Botswana through Labour Based Routine Road Maintenance Bernard Obika E Masimega; M Segokgo; C Overby
Human Capital Development 120 Pavement-Oriented Self-directed learning for Southern Africa Stephen T. Muench Joe P. Mahoney
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THEME 4:  BEST PRACTICE IN FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION & MAINTENANCE

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Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 001 Deflection Characteristics for Flexible Road and Airport Pavements in Kenya Sixtus K Mwea Francis J Gichaga
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 002 Road Surfacing Seal Performance Testing: Effect of Moisture and Ageing Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 003 Performance Based Road Surfacing Seal Evaluation: Empirical Testing T I Milne MFC van de Ven; KJ Jenkins
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 004 Towards Mechanistic Behaviour of Flexible Road Surfacing Seals using a Prototype FEM Model T I Milne M Huurman; MFC van de Ven; KJ Jenkins; A Scarpas
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 005 Application of soil mechanics principles to design and testing of pavement foundations SF Brown none
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 006 Improving the Effectiveness of Road Delivery: The South African Approach Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 007 Determination of Load Equivalency Factors by Means of Accelerated and Super-Accelerated Pavement Testing Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 008 Performance of Polymer Modified Binder in Hot and Humid Climate Areas - Indian Experience Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 009 Development of Fit for Purpose product performance
specification system for asphalt mixes
FJ Pretorius JE Grobler; J Onraët
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 010 The Determination of the Average Least Dimension of Surfacing Aggregates by Computation NB Dumas none
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 011 Algorithm and Computer Programme to Evaluate the Process Control for the Construction of Bituminous Road Surfacings for roads NB Dumas M R Jaffer; S Crocker
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 012 Development of application differentiated ultra-thin asphalt friction courses for southern African application FJ Pretorius JC Wise; M Henderson
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 013 Bitumen Foaming - An Innovative Technique Used on Large Scale Projects for Pavement Rehabilitation in Africa.  Long term Performance Charles Overby Rolf Johansen; Mussa Mataka
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 014 The Otta Seal, Innovative and Cost-Effective Surface Treatment.  What have been learned during the last decade? Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 015 Bitumen Rubber Asphalt: Year 2003 Design and Construction Procedures in South Africa CJ Potgieter none
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 016 Road Pavement Crack Sealing: Experiences in the Republic of South Africa CJ Potgieter none
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 017 Bitumen Rubber Chip and Spray Seals as Used in South Africa Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 018 Asphalt Concrete Response: Acre-II Sandra Erkens Cor Kasbergen; Tom Scarpas; Andre Molenaar
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 019 Impact Compaction of Subgrades - Experience on the Trans-Kalahari Highway including Continuous Impact Response (CIR) as a Method of Quality Control Innocent Jumo Johan Geldehuys
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 020 PVC Tar - The Zimbabwean Experience Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 022 The Evaluation of Cold-Mix Asphalt Using the HMA Design Guide Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 023 SBS-Modified Binders, Cost Effective in Hot Climates! Willem Vonk Rombout Hartemink
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 024 Effect of Tack Coats on Interlayer Shear Bond of Pavements Christiane Raab Manfred N Partl
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 025 Field Performance Comparison of hot pour sealants and cold pour sealants Yetkin Yldirim Ahmed Qatan; Jorge Prozzi
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 026 Research on the Stabilisation of two different materials using bitumen emulsion and cement Mark Bondietti Duncan Murphy; Kim Jenkins & Riaan Burger
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 027 Characterisation of hot mix asphalt with varying air voids content using triaxial shear strength test Terhi Pellinen Jiangseng Song; Shangzai Xiao
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 030 Expermential asphalt sections in the runway touch down zone on Johannesburg International Airport P Joubert L Gounder;S van Wyk
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 031 Dynamic testing of asphalt concrete by means of an improved triaxial-load cell Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 032 Deleterious Effects and Possible Causes of Weak Interlayers in Bituminous Surfaced Road Pavements Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 034 Methods Employed for the Design and Post-Construction Verification on a Major Greek Highway Rehabilitated by Recycling with Foamed Bitumen Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 035 Asphalt Mix Design and Construction - A slection of possible pitfalls JJE Liebenberg Dennis Rossmann; Enrico Fletcher
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 036 Modelling the Non-Linear Behaviour of Pavement Layers (Subgrade) Using a Linear Elastic Approach Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 037 Analysis of the structural bearing capacity of an airport using rudimentary test results as input into the SAMDM PW de Bruin GJ Jordaan; J André;F Francisco; NAS Domingos
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 038 A Pavement Design Method for Mixtures Manufactured with Cold Bitumen Emulsion Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 039 Characterisation of Some Candidate Surfacing Materials for Orthotropic Steel Bridges Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 040 Application of Artificial Neural Networks in the Back-Calculation of Flexible Pavement Layer Moduli from Deflection Measurements SJ Bredenhann MFC van de Ven
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 041 Determination of stress-dependent material properties with the FWD, for use in the structural analysis of pavements using finite element analysis technique SJ Bredenhann Kim Jenkins
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 042 The Use of Surface Enrichment Sprays as a Cost-Effective Solution for Preventative Maintenance GD van Zyl T Distin; K Louw
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 043 Fatigue Testing of Bitumen Emulsion Mixes Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 044 A Proposed Standard Sample Preparation Procedure for the Testing of SBS-Modified Binders Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 045 The CSIR Wheel-Tracking Test:  Two Case Histories Where the Effect of Sample Preparation was Investigated and an Attempt made to Correlate the Results Obtained with the Field Performance to Date Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 046 Foamed Tar Stabilisation: State of the Art Review and Long Term Pavement Performance incoporating New Accelerated Pavement Testing Method B S Morton Alex T Visser; Emile Horak
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 047 The Effect of Axle Load Spectra and Tyre Inflation Pressures on Standard Pavements Design Methods B S Morton Alex T Visser; Emile Horak
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 048 Effects of Filler Grading on the Increase in Stiffness of the Asphalt Mastic During Compaction Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 049 The Use of Carbonaceous Shale in Bitumen Emulsion Asphalt Mixtures P Garrioch Dr C Dutlow; LJ Ebels
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 050 Practical Aspects Relating to the Design and Construction of in-situ Recycled Foamed Bitumen Mixes Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 051 3-D Polymer Grid Reinforcement of Asphalt for Rut Resistance KJ Jenkins P Dennison; LJ Ebels & LS Mullins
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 052 A Structural FEM for Road Surfacing Seals Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 053 Performance of Sand Seals in the Kruger National Park Kobus Louw S Schoeman
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 054 Comparing Bitumen Emulsion Treated and Foamed Bitumen Treated Materials, are these Materials Equivalent at the same Bitumen Content? Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 055 Evaluating Asphalt Mixtures Using the Laboratory Wheel Tracking Test with Reference to Three Projects Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 056 Mechanical Performance of Asphalt Mixtures Incorporating Slag and Glass Secondary Aggregates Dr Gordon D Airey Andrew C Collop; Nicholas H Thom
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 057 Effect of Asphalt Mixture Compaction on Aggregate Orientation, Segregation and Mechanical Performance Alistair E Hunter GD Airey; Andrew C Collop
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 058 New Flexible base stabilisation which can improve surfacing performance Glenn Lacey none
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 060 A LTPP Exercise on a Foamed Bitumen Treated Base - an Evaluation of almost 10 years of Heavy Trafficking on MR 504 in KwaZulu Natal DC Collings R Lindsay; R Shunmugan
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 061 Tyre-Pavement Interface Contact Stresses on Flexible Pavements - Quo Vadis? M de Beer C Fisher;L Kannemeyer
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 062 The Use of SBS Modified Binder in the Reseal of the N2 Between New Geulderland and Mtunzini Gary Swart Dennis Rossmann; Trevor Distin;Francis Chemaly
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 065 Ultra Thin Friction Course Five Years on in South Africa Tom Gilbert Paul Olivier, Nelson Gale
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 066 The Rehabilitation of Van Reenen's Pass on the N3 Toll Road: A Long-term Perspective Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 067 The Vialit Adhesion Test - is it an Appropriate Test to Predict Low Temperature Binder/Aggregate Failure? Kobus Louw D Rossmann & D Cupido
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 068 Two-Layer Porous Asphalt for Noise Reduction JLM Voskuilen MFC van de Ven; JBM van Wieringen
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 069 Developments in Testing of Bitumen-Filler Systems Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 070 Concepts Used for Development of Bitumen Specifications MFC van de Ven KJ Jenkins; HU Bahia
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 071 The Comparison of Material Testing Methods to Determine the Effect of Moisutre on the Material Properties of Asphaltic Mixes Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 072 Investigation of Rutting Model Using the Aggregate Property Prof Tae-Soon Park Seok-Beom Ko
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 074 Monitoring Bitumen Quality from Refinery to Pavement SJ Emery J O'Connell; L White
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 075 Experiences with Half-Warm Foamed Bitumen Treatment Process in the Netherlands JLM Voskuilen S Mangnus; MFC van de Ven; JBM van Wieringen & HJNA Bolk
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 076 Cracking and Deformation after Widening an Old Road on Expansive Clay Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 077 How Plastic is Your Road Lime? F Netterberg B Boshoff
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 079 Advanced Testing for Cold Recycling Treatment Selection on N7 near Cape Town KJ Jenkins S Robroch; MG Henderson; J Wilkinson; AAA Molenaar
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 080 Aggregate Strength for Bituminous Surfacings for Low Volume Roads: A Heavy Vehicle Simulator Experience Dr P Paige-Green none
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 081 The Use of Modified Asphalt at Busy City Intersections DF Wright D Lowry; K Jenkins
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 082 Cost-Effectiveness of Pavement Crack Sealing John E Haddock Chuanxin Fang; Khaled Galal; David Ward; Thomas Kuczek
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 084 The role of fillers and cementitious binders when recycling with foamed bitumen or bitumen emulsion A Hodgkinson AT Visser
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 085 Experience with Cape Seals on heavily trafficked roads leading to improved design and larger aggregate utilisation RA Clayton
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 086 Moisture Sensitivity of Selected Foamed Bitumen Treated Materials Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 088 Blistering and Cracking of an Airport Runway Surfacing Due to Salt crystallization F Netterberg RA Bennet
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 089 Effect of a Penetrating Primer on the Strength of a Cement Stabilized Sand Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 090 Use of Seawater in the Slurry of a Cape Seal F Netterberg none
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 091 Lessons Learnt from Implementing Research for long-life Pavements on Interstate 710 in Southern California Fenella Long Carl L Monismith; John T Harvey, Jim St. Martin, Terrie Bressette
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 093 Polybilt(superscript: R) Polymers from Myth to Reality Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 094 Deep In-Situ Recycling of Asphalt Concrete Pavements as Granular Base - Design, Construction and Performance Evaluation Experience in California M Bejarano John T Harvey
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenanc 095 Construction Productivity and Resource Use Analysis for Heavy Duty Pavement Rehabilitation EB Lee John T Harvey
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 096 A Spatial Model for Volumetric Design of Thin and Ultra Thin Asphalt Layers Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 098 A Perspective on Accelerated Pavement Testing, the Caltrans Partnered Pavement Research Program J.T. Harvey C.L. Monismith; T.P. Hoover; N.F. Coetzee; H. Theyse
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 100 Using the simple shear test for rutting in hot-mix asphalt Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 102 Mechanistic-Empirical Structural Design Models for Foamed- and Emulsified-Bitumen-Treated Materials Fenella Long Hechter Theyse
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 103 The properties and performance of a foamed bitumen treated recycled asphalt base on State Route 89 near Sierraville in northern California Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 104 The Compaction Potential of Foamed- and Emulsified-Bitumen-Treated Materials Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 105 Recent Experience with Different HMA Mixes Used on the N3 Toll Road Project Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 106 Does SABS307 Guarantee fit-for-purpose road Bitumens? A Critical Evaluation of Compliance and Performance of Penetration Grade Bitumens Tested Transportek since 1995  Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 112 Rehabilitation of RWY 03L-21R at Johannesburg International Airport: selection of asphalt mixes using MMLS3 testing Pieter Molenaar Fred Hugo; Jan Beukes; Gary Catin
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 113 Application of the MMLS3 as APT tool for Evaluating Asphalt Performance on a highway in Namibia Fred Hugo Riaan de Witt; Andreas Helmich
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 114 Rheological properties of cross-linked SBS modified road binders Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 115 Characterisation of tropical soils for pavement construction Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 116 Work strain and strain energy density as design parameters for flexible pavements Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 117 Correlations between different ITS and UCS test protocols for foamed bitumen treated materials Matthew Houston Fenella Long
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 118 Bitumen Occupational Health-Update on Recent activities Tony Riley none
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 119 A real heat stable bitumen antistripping agent N Castano P. FERRÉ, F. FOSSAS, A. PUÑET
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 121 Research on the properties of road building materials treated with foamed bitumen in China Withdrawn
Best Practice in Flexible Pavement Design, Construction & Maintenance 122 A RE-EVALUATION OF SOME ASPECTS OF THE MECHANISTIC-EMPIRICAL DESIGN APPROACH F.J Jooste

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