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Kobus Labuschagne is an international expert in transport, traffic and safety engineering as well as in the development of intelligent systems in developing socio-economic environments.
Current activities and research interests
- Intelligent transportation systems
- Transportation, traffic and safety engineering
- Research platform to build and exploit capabilities in:
- Digital image analysis and modelling of object behaviour and characteristics
- Sensors to detect vehicle and freight movement and other sensors to detect real-time changes in transport services' productivity and efficiency, including those associated with an impact on the environment
- Efficient data-streaming technologies
- Data fusion processes
- Artificial intelligence algorithms
- Neural networks and computational intelligence
- Human-machine interface technologies
- GPS and GIS technology application.
Formal education
B Eng (Civil), University of Pretori, 1982
B Eng Honours, University of Pretoria, 1989
Business Management Certificate, University of Pretoria, 1993
Experience
Kobus Labuschagne has 22 years of experience in transportation and traffic engineering in a metropolitan environment. In his current position at CSIR Built Environment, which he joined in 1997, he deals mainly with traffic and safety engineering-related work, including intelligent transport systems (ITS). He is considered the leading expert on traffic calming in South Africa. Many of the traffic safety projects involve assisting road authorities with the development of road traffic safety business plans and strategies as well as the development of policies and programmes on various traffic management issues.
In his current position as research group leader: intelligent systems and traffic management, he is involved in projects with elements of ITS applications in the transport engineering and management, transport economics and transport policy domains with a focus on the interdependencies of transport and socio-economic development and the progression towards sustainable community development. Within the CSIR, the emphasis is on more significant research and development, and aligned with the CSIR mandate, Labuschagne is conducting research on integrated, web-enabled transport data management.
Organisational details
PO Box 395
Pretoria
0001
South Africa
Tel: +27 12 841 4175
Fax: +27 12 841 7125
Email: flabusch@csir.co.za
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