At the recent Southern African Transport Conference (SATC) at the CSIR in Pretoria, Mr Johann van Rensburg, Logistics lecturer at Stellenbosch University, was honoured with the award for Best Paper by a Young Professional (under 35).
His paper, Disruptive transport technologies: Forecasting the impact on road-generated revenues in South Africa, won the South African Institution Of Civil Engineering (SAICE) Transportation Engineering Division Award at the annual SATC. It includes a cash prize, books and a certificate.
It is the third time Van Rensburg has won this award in the past five years for a paper submitted for publication and presentation at the conference. All three papers are part of his PhD studies.
Lee-Thomas Smith, a Masters candidate in Transport Economics, of whom Van Rensburg is the study leader, won the student essay competition for a research paper submitted for publication and presentation at the conference.
The essay competition is open to all registered undergraduate and postgraduate students at tertiary institutions. Students had to prepare a five-page essay on the theme of the 2019 conference, namely "Disruptive Transport Technologies – is South and Southern Africa ready?"
Smith also received the award for best student contribution at the same conference.