The Centre for Transport Studies is pleased to welcome
Dr Ashish Verma (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
to lead a seminar entitled
Developing a Sustainable Transport Model to Assess Urban Transportation Policies and Projects
to be held
Tomorrow (Tuesday 19 June 2012) – 16:00
Please join us for presentation and discussion at
Room 427, Skempton Building, Imperial College London
(Maps and travel directions: http://www.cts.cv.imperial.ac.uk/html/Miscellaneous/travelDirections.asp)
Abstract
This seminar presents a methodology for testing urban transportation policies and projects on the dimension of sustainability through the development and use of a sustainable transport model. This model is conceptualized to encompass economic, environmental and social indicators and is represented in terms of a Composite Sustainability Index (CSI). The key effect of any transport policy measure is the change in travel behaviour, particularly the mode choice behaviour. To assess any such policy for sustainability, this change in choice behaviour is captured by a discrete mode choice model and the output of the same is used to assess the change in CSI from base scenario to policy scenario. The next part of the research work focuses on developing a methodology to test any transportation project against sustainability. To develop and demonstrate this, a bi-level optimization model is proposed for Feeder Route Network Generation and Schedule Coordination of feeder buses with metro trains in Bangalore, India.
About the Speaker
Dr. Ashish Verma (http://civil.iisc.ernet.in/~ashishv/) has a Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. His research interest are in; sustainable transportation planning, travel demand modeling, public transport planning and management, optimization of transportation systems, application of geoinformatics in transportation, driver behaviour and road safety, traffic management etc. He has authored more than 50 research publications, 1 book, and 1 : National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) web-course (a program designed to enhance the quality of engineering education in India). He is also the founding President of Transportation Research Group of India (www.trgindia.org<http://www.trgindia.org/>).
The next CTS Seminars
Dr Ying-en Ge (Dalian University of Technology, China) will be leading a seminar titled “A comparison of dynamic user optimal states with zero, fixed and variable tolerances” at UCL on Wednesday 20 June @ 16:00
About the CTS Seminar Series
The CTS seminar series aims to facilitate discussion on current research topics in the transport field. Seminars are held jointly with our colleagues in the Centre for Transport Studies at University College London. They are usually held on Wednesday afternoons at Imperial College London or University College London.
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