Mr. P. Hendricks, director of Tranportek South Africa, and SWOV managing director F. Wegman signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the 30th of November 2000 in Pretoria, South Africa. With this Memorandum of Understanding, both partners recognize the advantages to be gained by cooperation in the performance of research projects and in transferring technologies. Tranportek is the Division for Roads and Transport Technology of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), seated in Pretoria, South Africa.