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  • Conservation and preservation of locomotive heritage in Sri Lanka 
    Abeysinghe, A. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • A content audit of Transport related government websites in Sri Lanka 
    De Silva, A.P.U. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Today there is a new trend to develop websites for government institutes to distribute information to the general public. Besides, the concept of e-government and e- governance have become popular at present. But many ...
  • Development of Syncretic Mystical Christianity in China - A resultant of its spread by the Silk Road:-A brief comparative overview of the pattern of evangelization, the cross- influences and the result 
    Johns, J. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The Silk Road which passed through Central Asia to the East- linked the West with regions like India and China, facilitating the trade of silk and other commodities like horses and tea, but as a by-product, exchange of ...
  • Epic Bridges and Legendary Cities: Theorizing the Production of Public Space in the Peninsular South 
    Santiago, A. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The building of cities and the construction of bridges is a response to an ontological challenge. The challenge emerges from Space being the inevitable habitus of the social. This social imperative brings with it the ...
  • Evaluations of Motor Transport law in Sri Lanka 
    Kottahachchi, K.C. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Transport was an important aspect of the day today life of the ancient Sri Lankans. Since ancient times different transport facilities were used and available for the king, higher officers and the general public too. The ...
  • Evolution of the Railway Transportation Devices in Sri Lanka: with refer to the Design Applicability and Usability for Appropriate Product Design 
    Thilakarathna, K.C.M.; Ranasinghe, W.M.N.D. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Sri Lanka’s rail transportation was pioneered and developed by the Britishers after capturing the Kandyan kingdom in 1815. England was where the railway transportation emerged as a viable solution to all hindrances in ...
  • Evolution of the Railway Transportation Devices in Sri Lanka: with refer to the Design Applicability and Usability for Appropriate Product Design 
    Thilakarathna, K.C.M.; Ranasinghe, W.M.N.D. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Sri Lanka’s rail transportation was pioneered and developed by the Britishers after capturing the Kandyan kingdom in 1815. England was where the railway transportation emerged as a viable solution to all hindrances in ...
  • A glance at roadscape of principal roads from Colombo to provincial towns in the mid nineteenth century Sri Lanka 
    Manatunga, A. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The present study is a cursory survey on the roadscape of principal roads which have linked Colombo with provincial towns in the mid nineteenth century. There were seven principal roads from Colombo, the Capital City of ...
  • Highway system in Ancient Sri Lanka 
    Vidanapathirana, P. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Historical information about the ancient road network of Sri Lanka is restricted to random records encountered in historical documents and information recorded as a result of research carried out during the British ...
  • The Historical Evolution of the Colombo: Galle (A2) Main Road 
    Gunarathna, N.U. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    A course/ path that is used for transportation between two or more pointsis known as a “Road”. Since the Anuradhapura Period, Sri Lankan Civilization had a road network that connected major cities with the Capital city. ...
  • A Historical Study of Palanquin Traveling in Ancient Kandy kingdom in Sri Lanka 
    Yasarathna, H.B. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Human transport is the oldest mode of carrying loads from one place to another. Not only carrying goods but also humans are used to carry human beings from one place to another in Palanquins. Travelling on the shoulders ...
  • History and narratives of the chariot festival in the Serampore subdivision of West Bengal 
    Chatterjee, S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Serampore is an old tract or region of Hooghly between the dry bed of the river Saraswati and Hooghly. Serampore and its adjacent areas were under the administrative control of Saptagram Government and were under the ...
  • History of the Uva Railway from Peradeniya to Badulla The highest broad gauge line 
    Munasinghe, I. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The scope of this study includes a presentation of the development of the construction of the Uva railway from Peradeniya to Badulla during the period from 1872 to 1924. The construction of the Uva railway of 111 miles ...
  • How to Modernize a Society with Transportation: Colonial Ceylon in the Late 19th Century 
    Wijesuriya, D. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    In this research paper on industrial archaeology, the intent is to demonstrate how novel modern transport from Europe was established and integrated into late 19th century Ceylonese society known for its deeply rooted ...
  • Identification of the Buddhist Temple Paintings Depicting the Features Conjoined to the Early–Modern Transport System 
    Kodithuwakku, K. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Different kinds of carts and chariots have been added to the transport system in the course of history and they can be identified among the Buddhist temple paintings in Sri Lanka, particularly in the low-country. Among ...
  • Images of road culture in paintings - Ethos of socio cultural space in colonial Calcutta 
    Dey, B. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    In the global context space, there is an abundant and increasing fascination for the painting as a tool for historical evidence of society. Presently metropolitan city of Kolkata in India has historical as well as colonial ...
  • Impact of Ancient Routes on the Society in Madhya Pradesh 
    Kumar, L.; Khanday, D.A. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Madya Pradesh in India is prominent due to its most significant Buddhist remains including monuments and sculptures. Since ancient times, the centers of Buddhism were approachable from all major directions. The present ...
  • Impact of Road Beauty on Drivers Mind 
    Herath, O.V. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    As Martti I. Jaatinen, a Finnish architect defined a good road in his book entitled “Tie suomalaisessa maisemassa” (The Road in the Finnish Landscape) in 1967, “A good road is a living, total work that arises from a vision, ...
  • 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 ...

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