CPP Conference on Public Policy & Management to kick off with pre-conference lecture on ‘Understanding and Harnessing Linkages between Sustainable Transport and Livability for Building Brand Bengaluru’ on 26 Aug
Prof. M. R. Krishnamurthy Memorial Lecture to be led by Prof. Ashish Verma, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
19 August, 2024, Bengaluru: The XIX International Conference on Public Policy & Management, to be hosted by the Centre for Public Policy (CPP) at IIM Bangalore, will kick off with the pre-conference Prof. M. R. Krishnamurthy Memorial Lecture on, ‘Understanding and Harnessing Linkages between Sustainable Transport and Livability for Building Brand Bengaluru’, to be led by Prof. Ashish Verma, Transportation Systems Engineering (TSE), Convenor, IISc Sustainable Transportation Lab (IST Lab), Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, from 5 pm to 6.30 pm on 26 August 2024, at the MDC Conference Hall, IIMB.
To register for the memorial lecture, please click: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSea1L4g7riLLyZESZb2TfJqU7YsWY1j8gpqq9heiLbu8TuP9Q/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0
The Prof. M. R. Krishnamurthy Memorial Lecture will set the stage for the CPP conference, to be held from 27 to 29 August 2024 at IIM Bangalore. The conference is ideal for academicians, students, research scholars, policy practitioners, lawyers, NGO professionals and others with an interest in public policy. The event comprises pre-conference activities, academic sessions, topical policy debates, workshops, panel discussions and practitioner-oriented discussions on contemporary topics in public policy and management. The themes for the 2024 conference include: Emerging Technologies and Policy Implications; Policies on Climate Change and Sustainability in Industry and Agriculture; Policy Challenges in Gig and Platform Economy, and Innovations in Public Policy.
The Memorial Lecture Series is in honour of Prof. M. R. Krishnamurthy of Sri Krishnarajendra Silver Jubilee Technological Institute (SKSJTI), an educational institution which was among the first to focus on management of the textile industry. The theme of the lecture series is Bangalore centric, focused on the city and its myriad opportunities, strengths, contributions and issues. Last year’s lecture on ‘Making Bangalore an Ecologically Smart City’ was delivered by Prof. Harini Nagendra, Director of the Azim Premji University Research Center.
This year, as part of the CPP conference, Prof. Arpit Shah, faculty of the Public Policy area of IIMB, will lead a pre-conference workshop on, ‘Research Using Spatial Data’ from 3 pm to 4.30 pm on 26 August. Mr. Suman Bery, Vice Chairperson, NITI Aayog, will deliver the inaugural address on, ‘Reaping India's Demographic Dividend’, from 9 am to 10 am on 27 August.
For registration and other details of this year’s conference, please visit: https://www.iimb.ac.in/CPP-XIX-2024/
For a detailed schedule of the conference, please Click here.
Abstract of talk: ‘Brand Bengaluru’, which is an initiative of the Government of Karnataka (GoK), has been the point of focus and public discussion in recent times. The larger question to that debate is, what the development goal of such an initiative for Bengaluru should be. Should it be ‘Sustainable and Liveable Bengaluru’? If that is so, then it is important to understand what mobility interventions would contribute to this goal and by how much. Should it be projects such as, signal-free road corridors, double decker road corridors, tunnel roads, etc., which are car-centric and have been the focus of GoK’s proposed interventions under ‘Brand Bengaluru’, or should it include projects such as, a dense mass rapid transit system (MRTS) network, bus priority corridors, active mobility infrastructure, etc.? The talk will help understand the interventions that will harness the linkages of sustainable transport and liveability, through various research studies carried out at the IISc Sustainable Transportation Lab, to achieve a true and holistic vision of ‘Brand Bengaluru’ as ‘Sustainable and Liveable Bengaluru’.
About the speaker: Prof. Ashish Verma has been the Convenor of the IISc Sustainable Transportation Lab (IST Lab) for more than 15 years. He earned his PhD from IIT Bombay and is currently serving as a Professor of Transportation Systems Engineering at the Dept. of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He was a Visiting Professor at ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, during 2016 and a Visiting Fellow at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia during 2019. Before joining IISc, he served in IIT Guwahati and Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA). His research interests are in sustainable transportation planning and policy; integrated public transport planning and management; non-motorized transport (NMT); transport and Livability/Quality of Life (QoL); transport and climate change; disaster resilient transport; modeling, optimization and simulation of transportation systems; travel behavior analysis and modeling; pedestrian and crowd flow modeling; driver behavior and road safety; intelligent transportation system (ITS); traffic control and management, etc.
He has authored more than 280 research publications, including over 110 journal publications, in the area of transportation systems engineering. He also has a patent and a software copyright to his credit. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of Sustainable Transport and Livability published by Taylor & Francis (T&F). He is the former Editor of Transport Policy, Elsevier; and Associate Editor of Urban Rail Transit, Springer. He is Editorial Board Member of Research in Transportation Business & Management (RTBM), Elsevier, and Journal of the Air Transport Research Society, Elsevier. He has also authored a book titled, ‘Public Transport Planning and Management in Developing Countries’ published by CRC Press, and ‘Integrated Public Transportation System – Planning and Modelling’, published by VDM Publishing House Ltd. He has also been Co-Editor of Conference Proceedings of WCTR-2016, 5th CTRG, RATE-2018, 6th CTRG, and UMI-2022, published by Elsevier and Springer. He was instrumental in starting new M Tech programs in Transportation Engineering at IIT Guwahati (in 2007) and at IISc Bangalore (in 2010). He is the Founding and Immediate Past President of the society Transportation Research Group of India (TRG) and was instrumental in initiating the official journal of TRG in 2015, titled, ‘Transportation in Developing Economies’ (TiDE), published by Springer. He is currently serving as Steering & Scientific Committee Member of the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) based in University of California, Davis, USA. He is also currently serving as Hony. Secretary of the Institute of Urban Transport (India). He is also Chair of the Special Interest Group (SIG) F4 (Sustainable Transport and Livability) & H2 (Infrastructure Operation and Traffic Management in Developing Countries) of WCTRS. He was the Chair of the Technical Committee of TRG (TCT-D01) on ‘Travel Behaviour and Transport Demand’ during 2020 to 2022.
CPP Conference on Public Policy & Management to kick off with pre-conference lecture on ‘Understanding and Harnessing Linkages between Sustainable Transport and Livability for Building Brand Bengaluru’ on 26 Aug
Prof. M. R. Krishnamurthy Memorial Lecture to be led by Prof. Ashish Verma, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
19 August, 2024, Bengaluru: The XIX International Conference on Public Policy & Management, to be hosted by the Centre for Public Policy (CPP) at IIM Bangalore, will kick off with the pre-conference Prof. M. R. Krishnamurthy Memorial Lecture on, ‘Understanding and Harnessing Linkages between Sustainable Transport and Livability for Building Brand Bengaluru’, to be led by Prof. Ashish Verma, Transportation Systems Engineering (TSE), Convenor, IISc Sustainable Transportation Lab (IST Lab), Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, from 5 pm to 6.30 pm on 26 August 2024, at the MDC Conference Hall, IIMB.
To register for the memorial lecture, please click: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSea1L4g7riLLyZESZb2TfJqU7YsWY1j8gpqq9heiLbu8TuP9Q/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0
The Prof. M. R. Krishnamurthy Memorial Lecture will set the stage for the CPP conference, to be held from 27 to 29 August 2024 at IIM Bangalore. The conference is ideal for academicians, students, research scholars, policy practitioners, lawyers, NGO professionals and others with an interest in public policy. The event comprises pre-conference activities, academic sessions, topical policy debates, workshops, panel discussions and practitioner-oriented discussions on contemporary topics in public policy and management. The themes for the 2024 conference include: Emerging Technologies and Policy Implications; Policies on Climate Change and Sustainability in Industry and Agriculture; Policy Challenges in Gig and Platform Economy, and Innovations in Public Policy.
The Memorial Lecture Series is in honour of Prof. M. R. Krishnamurthy of Sri Krishnarajendra Silver Jubilee Technological Institute (SKSJTI), an educational institution which was among the first to focus on management of the textile industry. The theme of the lecture series is Bangalore centric, focused on the city and its myriad opportunities, strengths, contributions and issues. Last year’s lecture on ‘Making Bangalore an Ecologically Smart City’ was delivered by Prof. Harini Nagendra, Director of the Azim Premji University Research Center.
This year, as part of the CPP conference, Prof. Arpit Shah, faculty of the Public Policy area of IIMB, will lead a pre-conference workshop on, ‘Research Using Spatial Data’ from 3 pm to 4.30 pm on 26 August. Mr. Suman Bery, Vice Chairperson, NITI Aayog, will deliver the inaugural address on, ‘Reaping India's Demographic Dividend’, from 9 am to 10 am on 27 August.
For registration and other details of this year’s conference, please visit: https://www.iimb.ac.in/CPP-XIX-2024/
For a detailed schedule of the conference, please Click here.
Abstract of talk: ‘Brand Bengaluru’, which is an initiative of the Government of Karnataka (GoK), has been the point of focus and public discussion in recent times. The larger question to that debate is, what the development goal of such an initiative for Bengaluru should be. Should it be ‘Sustainable and Liveable Bengaluru’? If that is so, then it is important to understand what mobility interventions would contribute to this goal and by how much. Should it be projects such as, signal-free road corridors, double decker road corridors, tunnel roads, etc., which are car-centric and have been the focus of GoK’s proposed interventions under ‘Brand Bengaluru’, or should it include projects such as, a dense mass rapid transit system (MRTS) network, bus priority corridors, active mobility infrastructure, etc.? The talk will help understand the interventions that will harness the linkages of sustainable transport and liveability, through various research studies carried out at the IISc Sustainable Transportation Lab, to achieve a true and holistic vision of ‘Brand Bengaluru’ as ‘Sustainable and Liveable Bengaluru’.
About the speaker: Prof. Ashish Verma has been the Convenor of the IISc Sustainable Transportation Lab (IST Lab) for more than 15 years. He earned his PhD from IIT Bombay and is currently serving as a Professor of Transportation Systems Engineering at the Dept. of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He was a Visiting Professor at ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, during 2016 and a Visiting Fellow at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia during 2019. Before joining IISc, he served in IIT Guwahati and Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA). His research interests are in sustainable transportation planning and policy; integrated public transport planning and management; non-motorized transport (NMT); transport and Livability/Quality of Life (QoL); transport and climate change; disaster resilient transport; modeling, optimization and simulation of transportation systems; travel behavior analysis and modeling; pedestrian and crowd flow modeling; driver behavior and road safety; intelligent transportation system (ITS); traffic control and management, etc.
He has authored more than 280 research publications, including over 110 journal publications, in the area of transportation systems engineering. He also has a patent and a software copyright to his credit. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of Sustainable Transport and Livability published by Taylor & Francis (T&F). He is the former Editor of Transport Policy, Elsevier; and Associate Editor of Urban Rail Transit, Springer. He is Editorial Board Member of Research in Transportation Business & Management (RTBM), Elsevier, and Journal of the Air Transport Research Society, Elsevier. He has also authored a book titled, ‘Public Transport Planning and Management in Developing Countries’ published by CRC Press, and ‘Integrated Public Transportation System – Planning and Modelling’, published by VDM Publishing House Ltd. He has also been Co-Editor of Conference Proceedings of WCTR-2016, 5th CTRG, RATE-2018, 6th CTRG, and UMI-2022, published by Elsevier and Springer. He was instrumental in starting new M Tech programs in Transportation Engineering at IIT Guwahati (in 2007) and at IISc Bangalore (in 2010). He is the Founding and Immediate Past President of the society Transportation Research Group of India (TRG) and was instrumental in initiating the official journal of TRG in 2015, titled, ‘Transportation in Developing Economies’ (TiDE), published by Springer. He is currently serving as Steering & Scientific Committee Member of the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) based in University of California, Davis, USA. He is also currently serving as Hony. Secretary of the Institute of Urban Transport (India). He is also Chair of the Special Interest Group (SIG) F4 (Sustainable Transport and Livability) & H2 (Infrastructure Operation and Traffic Management in Developing Countries) of WCTRS. He was the Chair of the Technical Committee of TRG (TCT-D01) on ‘Travel Behaviour and Transport Demand’ during 2020 to 2022.