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  • Das, P. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    We have seen Kolkata’s Tram has its own heritage in this world. But, today’s Kolkata is not the same as earlier Kolkata. After the 17th century to pre-independent era of India as well as Calcutta, a lot of foreign communities ...
  • Thalpawila, O.N. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    As a result of the civil war in Sri Lanka, the entire road network and many bridges in the Northern and the Eastern provinces had been destroyed or rendered practically unusable due to armed attacks and negligence of ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Kumara, V; Ven.Nanda, S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The importance of the Pali Canonical and Commentarial literatures cannot be narrowed to the religious teachings only. It, indeed, incorporates the essential information that gives light on the other subjects such as culture, ...
  • Perera, S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Kandian Kingdom was divided into 12 parts and was ruled by twelve Kandian chieftains. The boundaries of these geographical areas were known as Kadaim and the door was the doratu only through which the people could pass. ...
  • Bhat, R. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The heritage of ‘transport’ is as ancient as the human existence; transport has much more significance than the ‘movement’. The phenomenon of transport entails the connection of cultures, carrier of ideas as well as ...
  • 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 ...
  • Kothalawala, C. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Pack Animals such as camels, goats, elephants, mules, donkeys, horses and yaks are used by humans to transport goods, humans, etc. All the weight bears on pack animals’ back. In ancient time, animals such as camels, goats, ...
  • 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 ...
  • Dwivedi, R.K. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The paper presents the evolution of cultures from the footprints to highways through the ages between India and Sri Lanka. It focuses on the theoretical aspects of mobility of people, ideas and culture through the land, ...
  • 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; ...
  • 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 ...
  • Haider, S.M.; Batool, S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The history of Pakistan Railways is rooted in the North Western Railways established in 1884, following amalgamation of the Punjab, Scinde and the Delhi Railways dating back to 1850s. The railways landscape in the country, ...
  • 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, ...
  • Koreti, S.I. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Transport is an important infrastructure indispensable for the development process of a country. Without proper means of transport and communications it may not be possible for any government to administer a vast country ...
  • 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, ...
  • Badikillaya, G.U. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    This paper is an attempt to understand how the Buddhist pilgrimage centres in India came into existence, who started the trail, what motivated devotees to undertake such travels, the route charting and its spread from the ...
  • Widyarathne, S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    The 19the Century was destined to be an era which evoked a profound socio-economic transformation in Sri Lanka. The expansion of plantation agriculture, development of road ways inside the island and later railway lines ...
  • 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 ...

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