Focus on advances in transport engineering

The sixth four-day conference of transportation research group of India envisaging India’s overall growth through focused transportation research, education and policies got off to a start here on Wed

The sixth four-day conference of transportation research group of India envisaging India’s overall growth through focused transportation research, education and policies got off to a start here on Wednesday.

Hosted by National Institute of Technology - Tiruchi (NIT-T), it will witness interchange of ideas among researchers, educators, practitioners, managers and policy-makers in the field of transport in India and around the world providing the participants an opportunity to understand the recent advances in the different areas of transportation engineering.

A total of 167 papers are to be presented during the conference, on themes such as pavements and materials, traffic flow and ITS, planning and travel behaviour, sustainable transport, traffic, intelligent transport system and mobility, and traffic safety and security, G Kannabiran, Director-in charge, NIT-T, said.