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Browsing The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017 by Subject "Transport"

Browsing The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017 by Subject "Transport"

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  • Beginning and Expansion of Transport in the Human Society 
    Udayakanthi, T.G.D. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Within human Social evolution, social development link with transport. Accordingly, transport means the mobilization of living and non-living goods from one place to another. The main service of a mode of transport is to ...
  • Pack Animals for Transportation 
    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, ...
  • Railway to the Sacred City and Pilgrims from the South: This presentation envisages the connection between building railways and pilgrimage to Anuradhapura 
    de Zoysa, A. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    From a larger research on the “Rediscovery of Anuradhapura” by the British Orientalists and its elevation from a “Buried City” to a “Holy City”, I wish to present how modern transport enhanced pilgrims to visit Anuradhapura ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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