ATPIO Participates in IIT Bombay’s TPMDC Conference

December 2014

The ATPIO team prepared a presentation on Asset Management, and the President of ATPIO, Arun Shirole, presented the key concepts of Asset Management, how it is practiced in United States and the landscape in India.
The presentation focussed on providing a historical background, basic objectives, conceptual framework and the process for managing transportation assets for their life cycle.

Mr. Shirole also held discussions with the faculty at IIT Bombay, Prof. S. L. Dhingra, Prof. K. V. K. Rao, and Prof. Tom Mathew. Potential partnership opportunities, student mentorship projects were amongst the many topics that were discussed.

 

Management of Complex Projects

Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Shane

Dr. Jennifer Shane, Associate Professor of  Construction Engineering in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental  Engineering at Iowa State University (ISU).

Dr. Shane talked about the shift in US infrastructure needs, changing from being primarily building new infrastructure to replacing, expanding, or renewing existing infrastructure. In this webinar Dr. Shane presented the five dimensional project management process developed to aid in successfully managing and delivering complex projects.

 

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Performance Specifications

Speaker: Mr. Sidney Scott, III, PE.

This webinar on “Performance Specifications – Delivering Performance and Harnessing the Innovation of American Industry to Build Better Transportation Infrastructure “, was a great success, with about 100 in attendance. At the University of Tennessee a whole class room of 25 students attended the webinar as a group. There was a good representation of practicing transportation professionals in the attendees as well, as evidenced by request for PDH certificates by 20 individuals. The interest of attendees was quite obvious from the number of questions that were asked and answered by the presenter Mr. Sydney Scott, P.E. Senior Vice President at Hill International.

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AASHTO NCHRP Professional Visit to India

A delegation led by Mr. John Horsley, the Executive Director of AASHTO visited India from November 9 through 15, 2009.

The AASHTO delegation visited New Delhi, met with key officials in the following government, quasi-public and private agencies including:

  • Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MORTH)
  • National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)
  • Ministry of Rural Development (MORD)
  • Indian Roads Congress (IRC)
  • Field trip to Agra on National Highway No. 2
  • Consulting Engineers Association of India
India Tour delegation included: John Horsley, AASHTO, Pete Rahn, Missouri DOT, Steve Simmons, Texas DOT, Chris Francis, Virginia DOT, Keith Platte, AASHTO, Bob Fogel, NACo, Shashi Nambisan, Iowa State, Kiran Bhatt, KT Analytics, Puneet Singh, Poly-Carb, Craig Parks and Hardik Shah, American Structurepoint