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  • 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. ...
  • A study about Russian transportation methods in famous fairy tale, “Vasilissa-the beautiful” 
    Dabare, D.C. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Russian fairy tales are a mass of folktales which most famous among other countries. There are lots of examinings about the beginning and spreading of these stories. The Russian word “skazki” ,used to identify these ...
  • A study on the Sri Lankan locomotive history revealed from "Yakada Yaka" 
    Ariyasinghe, D.A.G. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    In 1864, rail was introduced to Sri Lanka by the British administration as a mode of transportation to distribute coffee from the hill country to the colonial capital, Colombo. Later, even when the tea plantation transcended ...
  • A Survey of Mughal Caravanserais in Eastern Punjab (India) 
    Johar, S.; Chopra, K. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    In the Mughal period, there was a large flow of people and goods along the Agra- Lahore Highway. To support the transit along the Mughal route, there were few infrastructure built up along the roadways like kos-minars, ...
  • Tale of the Colombo-Kandy Road (A1) construction: beside travelling and transportation 
    Samaratunga, I. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The subjected road of this study is called Colombo-Kandy A1, which was an alternative to the early Colombo-Kandy route which passes through Hanwella, Ruwanwella and Balana. After defeating the Uva-Wellassa uprising in 1818; ...
  • Tour itinerary and old travelogue 
    Ahmed, M. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    A tourist road that includes visits to a variety of historical sites, places of cultural interest, or innate attractions an itinerary undertaken for literary, cultural, educational, health, or sports purposes. Tour itinerary ...
  • Tracing the Tracks: Road, Road Culture, and Romance in the Sangam Tamilnadu 
    Vijailakshmi, U.R. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Microhistory in a sense, captures the life of ordinary people during extraordinary circumstances or during macro-historical events. The purpose of this paper is to bring out the life style of the Sangam Tamils through the ...
  • 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 ...
  • Trans-cultural discourse on colonial transportation viewed through German Travel records on Sri Lanka 
    Paranavitana, N. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The involvement of cultural and political constructions embedded in the travel records has enabled critical awareness of the implication of travel and travel writings in colonial powers structures and it has given a new ...
  • Transition of modes of transportation from pre-modern to modernized Ceylon; Representations in Murals of the Buddhist Image Houses of the Upcountry Kandyan and Low Country Maritime Regions 
    de Zoysa, A.; Dissanayake, G.R. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Modernized Ceylon under Dutch and British occupation marks paradigm shifts of transportation in three phases: Elephant-Horse-Palanquin- Sailing Ships through Bullock Cart- Horse Drawn Carriage to Train-Automobile -Steam ...
  • Transport & the Shaping of Sri Lanka’s History 
    Kumarage, A.S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    History is shaped by diverse factors, among them the access to land, its occupation and use.Sri Lanka’s own history underlines the impact that emerging transport technology had on government, settlement and trade. Being ...
  • Transport systems in the ancient society revealed through the Sri Lankan paintings 
    Nishanthi, M. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    It is possible to understand how old society was, by studying paintings. The main purpose of this phenomenon is to study the transport methods used to travel in ancient society. Prehistoric paintings and paintings found ...
  • Transportation and the Socio-economic Development of Poona 
    Dasture, P. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Transportation has continually played an essential part in the vicissitudes and vagaries that occurred in the life of man since ages. Man, was the first means of conveyance, followed by the sledge and the wheel, which ...
  • Transportation of Elephants & Tuskers 
    Peiris, S.N. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Elephant is the largest creature living on the land of the planet earth. There is a very long history when considering the relationship between elephant and human being. This study is based on the methods used in transporting ...
  • Travel routes in the interior of the Island: based on Davy’s An account of the Interior of Ceylon and of its Inhabitants with Travels in that Land (1821) 
    Rathnabahu, R.M.N. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    John Davy born on 24 May 1790 in Penzance, United Kingdom was not only a Physician of the armed forces of the British Ceylon during the 19th century but also an excellent scholar and traveler at the time. His excursions ...
  • Traversing through the 18th Century Colombo-Kandy Trail 
    Paranavitana, K.D. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Colombo was linked with Kandy by a land route in the 18th century as the Kandyan and the Dutch authorities needed each other for mutual existence. The entire Colombo-Kandy route can be divided into two main sectors, firstly ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Usage of Stone in Road-Building: An Industrial Archaeological Perspective 
    Kodithuwakku, K.; Withanachchi, C.R. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Stone is a prominent geo-material used for various necessities in the evolution of human culture for quite a long time. The usage of stone in the history of road-building has been in practice sincecirca 4thand 5th century ...
  • Using neural networks for mobile applications: self-driving tourism 
    Abeysinghe, A.; Arundathie, Abeysinghe (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    At 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 ...

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