Mobilicity 2012
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Written By srinidhi - 9 January, 2012
Bangalore
CiSTUP
Transportation
Mobilicity
multimodal
CiSTUP FOUNDATION DAY PROGRAMME
CiSTUP will jointly organize with DULT, Praja RAAG and host 'Mobilicity 2012', as part of its foundation day celebrations. It is envisaged that this event will have two tracks.
The 'academic/technical track' to be held on 10rd January 2012, will be a day-long seminar with technical sessions consisting of presentations, interactions and panel discussions.
While in the earlier versions, the focus has largely been on 'urban mobility', this year the seminar includes other inter-related dimensions, and will have three themes – 'urban planning/design' with a focus on land use – transport planning integration, 'urban transportation/mobility' with a focus on multi-modal integration and 'urban environment/ecology' looking into issues of air pollution, urban trees/greens, wetlands/wildlife and rain water harvesting.
The intent is to highlight certain pertinent issues emerging through study/research and experience on ground, to inform decision-making, policy and practice. The idea is also to facilitate dialogue among stakeholders on perspectives, challenges, possible solutions and ways forward to address some of these issues. To this end, we look forward to participation from governmental and civic agencies, NGOs, educational and research institutions, professionals/practitioners, citizen's forums, public representative groups, the public etc.
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ACADEMIC/TECHNICAL TRACK
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Organizers: CiSTUP, DULT and Praja RAAG
Date, Time & Venue: 10th January 2012, 9:30 – 17:00 hrs, CiSTUP Seminar Hall, IISc, Bangalore
9:30 – 10:00 REGISTRATION 10:00 – 10:45 INAUGURAL SESSION
Welcome
About the Workshop
Inaugural Address,
Guests of Honour
Presidential Remarks
Vote of Thanks
Prof. Sitharam, Chairman, CiSTUP
Minakshi Goswami, Urban Planner, CiSTUP
Smt. Sharadamma, Worshipful Mayor, BBMP
Shri. Shankar Linge Gowda, Commissioner, BBMP
Mrs. V Manjula, Commissioner, DULT, Urban DeveGovt of Karnataka
Prof. B N Raghunandan, Div. Chair, Earth and Environmental Sciences, IISc
Dr. Gururaj KV, Urban Planner, CiSTUP
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10:45 – 11:00 TEA/COFFEE BREAK
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11:00 – 12:30 URBAN PLANNING & DESIGN – focus on LAND USE and TRANSPORT PLANNING INTEGRATION
(20 min)
Case Study: Mantri Square Mall, Malleshwaram
Ms. Radha Chanchani & Ms. Fagun Rajkotia, Urban Planners, CiSTUP
(20 min)
Landuse & Transport Integration - an afterthought?
Ms. Sujaya Rathi, Transport Planner, CSTEP
(20 min)
Making Connections: Exploring Planning & Design Strategies to link Land Use with Public Transit
Ms. Brinda Sastry, Urban Designer and Planner, and Adjunct Faculty, R. V. School of Architecture
(30 min)
PANEL DISCUSSION – Ms. Sujaya Rathi, Ms. Brinda Sastry, Dr. Robin King, Dr. Ashwin Mahesh, Ms. Champaka TR, representatives from BDA, BMRDA, BBMP Town Planning Depts (tentative) 12:30 – 1:30 BREAK FOR LUNCH
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13:00 – 15:00 URBAN TRANSPORTATION/MOBILITY – focus on MULTI-MODAL INTEGRATION
(30 min)
Multi-Modal Integration in Bangalore – Challenges & Solutions
Members from Praja RAAG/CiSTUP
(60 min)
PANEL DISCUSSION - Representatives from BMRCL, BMTC, DULT, BBMP, Easy Auto, Ride-A-Cycle Foundation, Traffic Police, Prof. Ananthramaiah, Prof. Ramanayya, Prof. Ashish Verma (CiSTUP) 15:00 – 15:15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 15:15 – 16:45 URBAN ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY
(20 min)
Urban Green Spaces of Bangalore: Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services including Air Pollution Mitigation
Dr. Harini Nagendra, Ramanujan Fellow, ATREE
(20 min)
Air Pollution in Bangalore
Mr. Mahesh Kashyap, Research Fellow, CiSTUP
(15 min)
Forgotten Functional Aspects of Blue Spaces in Bangalore
Dr. Gururaja KV, Urban Planner, CiSTUP
(15 min)
Rain Water Harvesting Policies & the Ground Truth in Bangalore
Mr. Shivakumar AR, Senior Fellow, KSCST
(20 min)
PANEL DISCUSSION – Speakers and Representatives from Central and State PCB, LDA, ESG (tentative) 16:45 – 17:00 WRAP UP & VOTE OF THANKS
There was decent participation this time around in Mobilicity. However we did not have substantial representation from various govt bodies who were invited.
I was part of the multimodal integration presentation..here are some updates from it:
IDS went on to initially present the case study about metro station at BYP and the lacunae as part of mode integration. This setup the context for the session..
We had Prof Ashwin Mahesh along with Murali(RACF) and Shailendra Singh(DULT) on the panel.
Ashwin started off with clarifications that BMLTA is the body which should be responsible for the multi modal integertion and suggested that the general thought should be to 'fund a policy and not a project '
He further suggested Process intervention' which are needed to track projects based on policies. He further stressed on the need for well defined policies and not just principles. He referred an example on the need for 'trip demand' approval for big transport related projects.
Murali expressed the need to spread awareness with public on the resources available.
Shailendra Sing mentioned that there are guidelines on how to handle mode integration.
Prof Ananthramiah who was initially involved with metro route planning, clarified on the metro route design that lowering costs was the only thought which was the basis for route selection, hence huge parking for cars was never on the cards except for few stations..
If it does, I can post the presentation on Praja.
VVR
I can post the presentation on Praja.
Please do... if you have it on scribd you can embed it here
Mantri Mall Traffic Study was presented at the event. Below is the report
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Missed the event due to late information and later viewing at 12 noon on 10th Jan.
How did it go?
K.V.Pathy
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