The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017: Recent submissions

  • Socio-cultural Impact of advent of Metro on Street Scenario of Bengaluru 
    Kumar, V. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Guttierrez remarks, the socio-cultural transformation is a great happening and a reality that is necessary and inevitable part of urban transformation. This happening only varies in degrees depending on the pace of change. ...
  • PALANQUIN : The symbol of Royalty and luxury of ancient Assam: Special reference to wedding rituals and bearers profession 
    Gogoi, H.D.; Goswami, G. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Palanquin was a means of land transport which is especially used in eastern Asia as well as in Assam usually for one person that consists of an enclosed box-like litter borne on the shoulders of men by means of poles. It ...
  • TUK- TUKS 
    Sandakumari, W.D.I.; Sandakumari, W.D.I. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The arrival of the first three-wheelers in Srilanka was not 3decades ago, as many people think, but in the 19th century. Gradually radio taxis were introduced for Colombo residents, alongside auto-rickshaw three-wheelers ...
  • Integrating Environmental Safeguards in Roads Sector Development, Sri Lanka 
    Yahampath, P. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Roads development in Sri Lanka has become a key agenda in national development process, fulfilling needs of infrastructure establishment. Improvements of existing roads have been prioritized instead of new roads construction ...
  • Usage of Railway Trails in experiencing Sri Lankan culture: A sustainable tourism product development proposal for Sri Lanka 
    Gunasekara, I. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Sri Lanka as a developing nation focuses on economic development through tourism. In this regard numerous tourism products are introduced with various tourism concepts. Cultural tourism as a prominent example in Sri Lanka ...
  • Conserving Built Railway Heritage: Need for a New Approach 
    Bhatawadekar, S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Railways form an integral part of achievements of the Industrial age that changed the notions of distance, time and space, and led to progress and development. Running the railways involved huge infrastructure, including ...
  • Pack Animals for Transportation 
    Kothalawala, C. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Pack Animals such as camels, goats, elephants, mules, donkeys, horses and yaks are used by humans to transport goods, humans, etc. All the weight bears on pack animals’ back. In ancient time, animals such as camels, goats, ...
  • Road to Jaffna –Road to Reconciliation in Sri Lanka 
    Thalpawila, O.N. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    As a result of the civil war in Sri Lanka, the entire road network and many bridges in the Northern and the Eastern provinces had been destroyed or rendered practically unusable due to armed attacks and negligence of ...
  • Kolkata’s Tram- Running Heritage Vehicle in Indian Transport System: The Museum Implanted for the Preservation and Conservation of Vintage Vehicle 
    Das, P. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    We have seen Kolkata’s Tram has its own heritage in this world. But, today’s Kolkata is not the same as earlier Kolkata. After the 17th century to pre-independent era of India as well as Calcutta, a lot of foreign communities ...
  • The Clues on the Silk Road in the Pali Cannon, the Commentaries and the Chronicles 
    Kumara, V; Ven.Nanda, S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The importance of the Pali Canonical and Commentarial literatures cannot be narrowed to the religious teachings only. It, indeed, incorporates the essential information that gives light on the other subjects such as culture, ...
  • Wheel to Wheel less Locomotives—Revolutionary discoveries, heritage and its exposition in Museum: A Case Study 
    Ray, D. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Discovery of the wheel in the late Neolithic followed by the use of spoke wheel in carts in the second half of the 4th Millennium BCE in Mesopotamia or specifically in the Sumerian Civilization initiated the journey of ...
  • Artistic Expressions on the Vehicles 
    Bhat, R. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The heritage of ‘transport’ is as ancient as the human existence; transport has much more significance than the ‘movement’. The phenomenon of transport entails the connection of cultures, carrier of ideas as well as ...
  • Road etiquette observed when passing a door at a Kadaim-doratu during the Kandian Kingdom 
    Perera, S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Kandian Kingdom was divided into 12 parts and was ruled by twelve Kandian chieftains. The boundaries of these geographical areas were known as Kadaim and the door was the doratu only through which the people could pass. ...
  • Palanquin – the wheel-less luxury cart 
    Chakrabarti, M. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    A palanquin, also called palki, is a covered sedan chair on four shafts carried by two, four or more men (Kaahar). Palkis have been mentioned in the Indian epics. A beautifully decorated and covered cart protected its ...
  • ‘Wheel’ – The Basis of Movement In the Context of Indian Culture, Thought and Art 
    Yegnaswamy, J. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Wheel is defined as a tangible circular object revolves on an axis, and while fixed beneath a vehicle enables it to move over the land. The earliest wheel in history is the potter’s wheel (c. 500 BCE), and when its horizontal ...
  • Trade Centers of Early Medieval Eastern India and Their connectivity 
    Kumar, A. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The Post Gupta social formation was marked by the emergence of regional identities. Right from the time of the Guptas, and more so during the post Gupta time the process of the origin and evolution of states which was till ...
  • Promoting Railway Tourism in Si Lanka 
    Rathnayake, S.; Rathnayake, S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Accessibility is one of the main components in tourism destination. Traveling by train is a famous accessibility method of the tourism industry. Railway tourism or train tourism is not a new concept. It dates back to late ...
  • Paths, Places and Voids: some thoughts on a prehistoric symbolic representation recovered from a cave in Sabaragamuva Province, Sri Lanka 
    Somadeva1, R.; Wanninayake, A.; Devage, D.; Ambalampitiya, J; Fernando, R. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Symbolism is one of the major cognitive advances that had been prominently developed by anatomically modern humans. It involved a complex web of biological, ecological and social qualifiers acquired through the evolutionary ...
  • Lost on the pilgrim routes. 
    Dissanayake, D. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Pilgrimages developed with devotees traveling to visit sacred spaces and sacred objects and symbols. Among the followers of Buddha and Dhamma, there was no reason, and no necessity to go on pilgrimages or worship any objects ...

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