Transportation Research Group (TRG) Conference, Lucknow India

December 2015

ATPIO cosponsored, coorganized and participated in the 3rd Conference of Transportation Research Group (CTRG) of India on December 17-20, 2015, in Kolkata, India. Prof. Kumares Sinha and Prof. Anuj Sharma, who are part of the ATPIO Board of Directors participated in the conference and served on the scientific and organizing committee respectively. Prof. Kumares Sinha wass one of the keynote speakers at the conference. The conference was designed to facilitate information exchange among transportation researchers, educators, managers, and policymakers from India and all over the world. The conference will address all forms of passenger and freight transport at the urban, regional, inter-city, and rural levels.

Smart Cities

Mr. Lamba is the Program Manager for the consulting firm, CH2M HILL’s Smart Infrastructure Solutions. His primary focus is exploring emerging technology and analytics-based decision support tools in transportation and infrastructure domains, to improve cost and operational efficiency, enhance customer service, support policy formulation, capital planning and asset management. His responsibilities also include a Smarter Cities Innovation Lab, which is designed to incubate new solutions to maturity. He is based in the Washington DC area and has spent the last 20 years working on Transportation related topics around the world for governments and private sector organizations. Prior to joining CH2M HILL in early 2014, Mr. Lamba spent over 10 years at IBM, where he was an Industry Leader in IBM’s Smarter Cities initiative. Mr. Lamba earned his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from IIT, Madras in India. He also has a Masters degree in Civil Engineering and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.

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Public Private Partnership in Virginia

Speaker: Mr. Dusty L. Holocombe

Mr. Holcombe serves as Deputy Director of the Virginia Office of Public-Private Partnerships (VAP3). He is responsible for administering the daily operations of the office for Virginia. In that role, he oversees all programmatic and development activities in identification, evaluation, and procurement of public-private projects.

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Smart Cities Workshop, Varanasi

April 2015

From April 1, to April 9, 2015, the workshop’s main session known as the Smart City Initiatives for Varanasi was held at Banaras Hindu University (BHU). 91 masters and Ph.D. students of BHU, La Salle University, Columbia, A.P. Institute of Environmental Design, Sardar Patel University, and College of Engineering Thiruvantapuram and 20 faculty members, professionals, officials from City of Varanasi, School of Planning, New Delhi, Montana state University, USA, ATPIO, and Buro Dap participated in this workshop.Over the nine days period, the workshop participants brainstormed on various urban development issues of Varanasi spread over six planning areas: (1) Heritage Conservation and Tourism Management; (2) Urban Mobility and Infrastructure Planning; (3) Land Use Planning and Built Environment; (4) Economic Development Projects; (5) Environmental Planning and Management; and (6) Livable Communities. At the end of workshop, 28 most crucial urban issues were identified and the solutions of these issues were offered.