Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge and are greatly indebted for the financial support from the joint research collaboration between Hungary/South Africa Funding (UID 72384 and TET\_10-1- 2011-0005); for facilitation by the two universities, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa and Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary; the latter for making available the laboratory facility, Jendrassik Gyorgy hotechnikai Laboratorium in Budapest BME, where the engine experiments were conducted. This work is connected to the scientific program of the "Development of quality-oriented and harmonized R+D+I strategy and functional model at BME" Project. This Project was supported by the New Szechenyi Development Plan (Project ID:TAMOP-4.2.1/B-09/1/KMR-2010-0002). The authors are grateful to the support of Bolyai Janos Research fellowship of HAS (Hungarian Academy of Science). Authors are grateful for the support of Prof. Dr. Florian Heinitz, Director of Transport, and Spatial Planning Institute in the University of Applied Science in Erfurt, Germany.

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Tanzania

South Africa

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