The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017
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Item Conservation and preservation of locomotive heritage in Sri Lanka(The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017) Abeysinghe, A.Travel and tourism is a large income generator in Sri Lanka. As such, train travel plays a significant role in promoting tourism, rendering tourists local and overseas an exceptional travelling experience as well as a multi-faceted cultural exchange. In Sri Lanka the railways network covers the scenic hill country with exceptional views of verdant hills, pristine beaches and secluded countryside. The railway network in Sri Lanka was constructed on the legendary route in the 19th century. The Viceroy Special which is a vintage steam train built to resemble trains of yesteryear is a locomotive heritage rendering travelers a unique experience of train travel, especially the hill country train ride which is considered as one of the best journeys in the world. But there are many challenges facing the conservation and preservation of locomotive heritage. As the constant movement of the railway engines and carriages will wear out original parts and will have to be replaced leading to destruction of valuable historical and technological nature of the locomotives, there should be better solutions to conserve them. Thus, there should be proper pragmatic solutions to conserve such locomotive heritages without altering the ancient outlook of the engines and carriages or else the ancient nature of such locomotives will be destroyed. In this paper, I will be looking at pragmatic solutions to conserve and preserve locomotive heritage in Sri Lanka considered a valuable heritage of the past.Item Using neural networks for mobile applications: self-driving tourism(The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017) Abeysinghe, A.; Arundathie, AbeysingheAt present, tourism and hospitality industries extensively makes use of Information Technology (IT) with the objective of reducing costs, improving operational competence as well as improving the quality of service provided to customers, in order to render a better service for the clients. Thus a new dimension was merged to tourism with the adoption of IT in tourism related services. From e-Marketing to virtual tours applications of IT in tourism are diverse. A recent trend in IT-based tourism can be identified as deploying mobile apps as a part of tourism and capturing user data, to update the services to cope with user demands continuously. Sri Lanka as a developing country has limited street view and tourism cornerstones are highlighted in the Internet. This makes potential users to visit a plethora of websites and related apps to fulfil their demands. Building a centralized app for all key tourism areas based on a variety of options ranging from landscapes to business organizations would allow users to easily navigate, while uploading their own information. This research was conducted as a survey to capture user data and to build an Android application based on the data. The system uses a neural network multi-level perceptron (MLP) with back propagation based on the Android platform as a mechanism of centralizing tourism related services in Sri Lanka.