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e-toll (South Africa) - Wikipedia - 0 views

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e-toll roads SANRAL

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      1. What is e-toll?
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      2. How is e-toll paid?
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      3. Is it compulsory to buy an e-tag?
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      4. What is the result if you do not own an e-tag?
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      5. How did the public react to the implementation of e-toll?
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      6. What is the name of the organization that oppose e-toll?
  • e-toll (in South Africa) consists of the electronic toll collection (ETC) processes employed by South Africa's roads agency Sanral on selected toll roads or toll lanes, subject to the Sanral Act of 1998. As of 2014, 19% of South Africa's national roads were toll roads. Sanral derives its income both from toll income and the national fiscus, while initial capital outlay for large projects are funded by open market bond issues.[1]
  • Open road tolling went live in Gauteng province on December 3, 2013,[3] when the province had some 3.5 million registered vehicles.[1] The Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project led to a large decrease in traffic congestion when construction finished 2011-2012
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  • Vehicles are identified electronically without any cash transactions taking place on the road or highway.[1] Vehicle identification is facilitated by an e-tag or a vehicle license plate number which is recorded by overhead cameras installed on gantries, and interpreted by computer.
  • 48 percent discount on tariffs and their monthly bill was capped
  • Owning an e-tag is however not compulsory
  • does not require any enforcement
  • Initially, e-tagged road users received
  • Tariffs were increased
  • May 2015 amendments entailed significant reductions
  • Boom-down
  • Open road tolling
  • systems
  • At conventional toll plazas, in lanes marked with the e-tag sign, overhead equipment register and verify the details of an e-tag in a slow-moving vehicle, and an amount is deducted from the road user's toll account, whereupon the boom lifts,[1] or a light turns green.
  • without any toll booths
  • Cameras and other sensors
  • register either the e-tag or the vehicle license plate number, and an amount is deducted from an eTag registered road user's account.
  • each vehicle is photographed from above for length classification, with additional photos of the front and rear number plates.[
  • The system was widely denounced
  • Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa)
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Gauteng's e-tolls & you - 2 views

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Gauteng e-toll

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  • Whether we like it or not, e-tolling has arrived in Gauteng. Up until now the gantries erected across the province's highways have been a new addition to the urban landscape and the object of much anger, but they have not yet played a role in picking our pockets.
  • The e-toll team is made up of two entities: the first is state-owned enterprise South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral), which is the implementing authority, and Electronic Toll Collection (ETC), which is the operating company.
  • Sanral is responsible for the design, financing, maintenance, operation and rehabilitation of South Africa's national toll and non-toll roads,
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  • Road users can register through a variety of channels
  • At [e-toll customer service centres
  • Online
  • By phoning
  • Through [downloading a customer information sheet
  • By sending your vehicle licence plate number to 44004 and Sanral's call centre will phone back to complete the registration; or
  • By [scanning the QR barcode on the Sanral website
  • payment with your credit card
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      7. What is the process of getting registered for e-toll?
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      8. What are "gantries"?
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      9. How is payment collected by these structures?
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      10. How would the road user benefit from fitting an e-tag?
  • 43 overhead gantries along the N1, N3, N12 and R21 highways
  • Each gantry is fitted with toll collection equipment that recognises a vehicle's e-tag (if one has in fact been fitted) and photographs the front and back vehicle licence plate number as well as the top of the vehicle. The e-tag will reportedly emit a 'beep' when passing under a gantry.
  • Sanral's argument is that by fitting an e-tag the user will qualify for discounted tariffs of 48%
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The pitfalls of potholes: a closer look at South African roads - 1 views

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      What is the main cause behind the potholes, according to CSIR?
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      What is the situation in Gauteng?
  • According to CSIR (The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research), the main cause behind the pothole situation lies in a lack of adequate improvement in the preventative maintenance on a number of roads.
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  • The roads in Gauteng have been under serious scrutiny. In recent media reports, it was identified that, in a space of six years, the amount of roads considered to be in a poor to very poor condition had increased from 20-46%. This deterioration has led the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) to roll out a 'road rehabilitation campaign' which aims to address and repair 12 703 potholes and 37 545 patchings and clearings.
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Anti-tolling group praises Sanral on new fuel funding strategy | Fin24 - 2 views

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    Theron said tolling schemes for long distance economic corridors make sense, but not when these are applied to daily commuter routes such as the Gauteng Freeway network.
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E-learning hard for SA to implement, but necessary: iLIVE - Times LIVE - 1 views

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  • Most South African learners in rural and township areas do not have access to the Internet.
  • they will be entering a world where proficiency with digital technology is a fundamental necessity. 
  • when these learners leave school,
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  • because of the myriad obstacles to widespread digital access in South Africa, some educators and experts in the technological field argue that e-learning is not viable for us. They believe that bridging the digital divide is too big a challenge.
  • in developed countries
  • technology allows them to engage more deeply with the subject matter, while – crucially, in today’s technology driven world – also allowing them to become comfortable with using digital technology.
  • Implementing e-learning programmes in South Africa is difficult.
  • that implemented properly, e-learning can assist in both equipping learners to enter a digital world, and alleviating what many see as a crisis in our education system.
  • proper implementation” lies in using educational technologies that span the online and offline worlds.
  • solutions
  • using educational technologies that span the online and offline worlds
  • Via Afrika
  • developing digital learning tools that require only limited Internet connectivity to work, and can be used both online and offline.
  • LivingPages app for Grade 10, 11 and 12 textbooks
  • interact with their textbooks using a smartphone or tablet
  • it enhances the printed page with extra digital content
  • can be streamed directly through the smartphone.
  • video
  • graphics
  • audio
  • Another
  • example
  • the Via Afrika eBook series for Grades 4–12.
  • e-textbooks can be read in the MobiReader app
  • allows for learners to engage with digital enhancements such as videos, slide shows and audio offline
  • Government is also making inroads into overcoming barriers to e-learning
  • Gauteng
  • its intention to introduce e-learning to the province’s schools, and distribute 88 000 tablets to schools that need them.
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  • broadband technology is also becoming increasingly accessible
  • Too often underprivileged learners who gain entry into tertiary institutions find themselves poorly equipped to work with the technology needed to succeed in these institutions.
  • If given the opportunity to engage with digital technologies from a young age, learners won’t have to face such challenges later on.
  • will only increase as cheaper smartphones and internet access become available.
  • creative educational solutions
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SA schools falling off the e-learning deep end | Fin24 - 2 views

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  • Few schools in South Africa have the ability to roll out effective e-learning programmes because of a lack of understanding of these platforms, says an industry insider
  • many South Africans schools, and the authorities that govern them, are misinformed as to what e-learning actually is,” Ian Light, chief executive of Eiffel Corp, told Fin24.
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  • Eiffel Corp is an e-learning specialist and Light said that the lack of local understanding of the process makes it difficult to define the exact number of schools that have effective programmes in place.
  • some of the biggest barriers to schools having a successful e-learning ecosystem is the lack of a well-planned teaching and learning strategy that incorporates technology, a lack of funding to invest in online platforms to administer and deliver e-learning content as well as the complementary subsidising of network data and connectivity infrastructure at places of learning,” said Light.
  • In Gauteng, Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has spear-headed the provincial e-learning programme in which the paperless education system is expected to cost around R17bn.However, the programme has had challenges with a number of devices stolen.
  • More than 100 smart boards have been stolen in our schools since the installation in July 2015 of the ICT programme in the Grade 12 classrooms in 377 schools
  • But a critical component is the training of teachers to manage the delivery of the curriculum through technology tools.
  • it should be clear that the training (perhaps we should call it up-skilling) of teachers is a massive task
  • expensive and a labour intensive
  • But unless it is done in tandem with the roll-out of technology devices in schools, there will be minimal return on the technology investment," Kobus van Wyk recently told Fin24.
  • Van Wyk is the chief executive of the Associated Distributors of Educational Supplies in Southern Africa and managed the Khanya Project for a decade.
  • “South Africa needs strong, committed national leadership and complementary government policy to foster innovation and direct efforts to encourage teacher skills growth in this area,” said Light.
  • Poll that revealed more than half of school children said they knew more than their teachers about the use of tablets and computers for learning.
  • for e-learning to be effective and assist with bridging the divide for all learners, it needs effective planning that integrates with sound, measurable academic practices, cheap and reliable data connectivity as well as committed, long term funding from government,” said Light.
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