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  • 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 ...
  • Vintage cars a luxury in British Raj: a case study of different museum and private collections 
    Ahmad, A.; Kumar, A. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Transport is a part of our day to day lives, and in seeing cars, everyone feels a connection and pride in owning it. In India the first car ran on roads in 1897. Prior to independence in the 1940s India had no automobile ...
  • 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 ...
  • Wheeled Vehicle Toys of the Indus Civilization with Special Reference to Gujarat, India 
    Vasantha, R.S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Terracotta toy cart frames and wheels provide indirect evidence for the origin and development of wheeled carts based transportation in the alluvial plains of Pakistan and western India around 3500 BC. Evidences from various ...
  • ‘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 ...
  • When have you shed tears for them? 
    Bandyopadhyay, N. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Freight and people movement have been important factors for economic systems from ancient times to the modern globalized world. Utilizing available technology and resources initially with land animalsand wind for maritime ...

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