Smart Mobility

Fostering collaborative innovation toward a sustainable and inclusive future The CSIR's participation at this year's prestigious Smarter Mobility Africa Summit 2023, held at the Gallagher Convention Centre, marked a significant milestone in the pursuit of cutting-edge and sustainable transportati...

Meet Rosco Platen Exciting projects are always in the pipeline at the CSIR’s Coastal Engineering and Port Infrastructure Model Hall in Stellenbosch. The facility, which boasts the title of being the largest physical hydraulic modelling facility in the southern hemisphere, is home to Rosco Platen ...

Vuyo Ndayi is a Capetonian who grew up near the ocean and Cape Town harbour. He combined his love for his environment and for all things engineering to first train as a marine instrumentation technologist, and to now work as a metocean and marine instrumentation engineer for the CSIR Coastal Engi...

As part of his Master’s, Mlungisi Gumede has set out to determine the effects of extreme weather conditions, specifically wind, on the Port of Cape Town. Hailing from KwaZulu-Natal, Gumede is a CSIR researcher who is currently pursuing a Master of Commerce Management through the University of Kwa...

Benji Oliver studied extreme wave events as part of his Master’s and is now dedicated to finding methods to improve the wave forecast for South Africa’s major ports, with a view to improving the operations at ports. The young oceanographer applies mathematical modelling and numerical simulation t...

Meet Khangale Khuthadzo Is the Port of Cape Town becoming windier? Answering this question is the task of Khangale Khuthadzo, a young PhD candidate who is dedicated to developing the climatology and providing future projections of the wind field over Cape Town, South Africa. He has transitioned f...