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Logistics lecturer wins conference award
Author: Ronél Beukes
Published: 22/08/2019

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.