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Seminar on Transport 
    31th January 2003
    Venue: Hall 1
    Time: 09:30 - 18:00 hrs
    Technical Coordinator:
Subhankar Mitra subhankar@gisdev.net, 9811114544


Whole Day's Programme



  Inaugural Session
    09:30 – 11:00 hrs

Welcome AddressProf. Michael F Goodchild
Professor of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara

Introductory RemarksVal Noronha
Project Director, NCRST - Infrastructure

Keynote AddressAndrew Ryan
Product Manager GIS, Autodesk, Asia-Pacific

Presidential AddressSantosh Nautiyal
Chairman, National Highway Authority of India

Inaugural AddressAjay Makan
Minister of Transport, Tourism & Power, Government of Delhi

Vote of ThanksSubhankar Mitra
Manager - National Sales, GIS Development

11:00 – 11:30 hrs      Tea Break


Technical Session: Transport - I
    11:30 – 13:00 hrs

ChairpersonProf. A K Maitra
Director, School of Planning and Architecture

Speakers Lead Paper : Atul Kumar
General Manager - IT & Planning, National Highway Authority of India

Road Inventory from Surface models created by using LIDAR: Grade/cross slope determination
Sitansu B Pattnaik, Shauna Hallmark, Reginald Souleyrette

Using GIS To Identify Pedestrian High Crash Locations
Shashi S Nambisan, Srinivas S Pulugurtha, Natachai Wongchavalidkul, Vinod Vasudevan

Applying GIS For Managing Highways And Bridges as Assets
Jagdish Maheshwari, Shankar Narayanan

GIS and Remote Sensing in Urban Transportation Planning: A Case Study of Birkenhead, Auckland
Issa M El-Shair

Information system for rural road network planning - A case study
I Prasada Rao, B Kangadurai, P K Jain , Neelam Jain

Travel Demand Assessment In GIS
R S Moorthy, S L Dhingra, K V Krishna Rao

13:00 – 14:00 hrs      Lunch Break


Technical Session: Transport - II
    14:00 – 16:00 hrs

ChairpersonProf. Geetam Tiwari
Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Speakers Designing a Traffic Monitoring Program using Landuse Change Detection
Reginald Souleyrette, Sitansu B Pattnaik

GIS based Road Information and Management System : A Decision Support tool for Public Works Department
V S Karandikar, Amit Prakash, P S Bindu, Prashant Nayak

Decision support system of Feeder bus routes for Rail transit network
B R Marwah, Raman Parti

AMIS: Development and Application of a GIS/Multicriteria Corridor Evaluation Methodology
Keiron Bailey

Web based tool for transportation and GIS database management
Srinivas S Pulugurtha, Shashi S Nambisan, David Moss

GIS in Public Transportation
Vikas Khitha, Sanjay Govil

GIS and GPS Based Asset Management for Road and Railway Transportation Systems in India
Frank Hegyi, Asok K Mookerjee

GIS Techniques For Estimation Of Rural Accessibility Effects
B Kangadurai, I Prasada Rao, and P K Nanda

16:00 – 16:30 hrs      Tea Break


Panel Discussion
    16:30 hrs

ChairpersonProf. Dinesh Mohan
Professor, Transportation Research & Injury Prevention Program

Panelists Prof. P K Sikdar
Director, Central Road Research Institute

Prof. Geetam Tiwari
Professor, Transportation Research & Injury Prevention Program

Val Noronha
Project Director, NCRST-Infrastructure

Reginald Souleyrette
Associate Professor, Iowa State University

Shashi S Nambisan
Director, Transportation Research Center



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Leica Geosystems Rolta India

Geospatial Information & Technology Association Indian Space Research Organisation
ITC Netherlands NRDMS Department of Science and Technology
Asian Institute of TechnologyDVP Geomatic Pvt. Ltd.

Centre for Spatial Database Management and Solutions GIS Development
National Consortium on Remote Sensing in Transportation Survey of India