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  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Ancient corridor of Pakistan linkages with rest of other world and its impact on trade culture and pilgrimages 
    Aslam, N. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Geographically in ancient times the term Pakistan applied to the North West region of Subcontinent. Owing to its peculiar geographical location ancient Pakistan had been closer contact with Afghanistan, China, Central Asian ...
  • Neolithic Cartography and Trade Routes in South Western Coastal Maharashtra, India 
    Rane- Kothare, A. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Following research paper deals with discovery of new evidences in Western Maharashtra by the author Anita Rane-Kothare of Maps engraved on hillocks, indicating trade routes towards the Deccan plateau from the Neolithic ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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. ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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. ...

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