Speakers
- Senior Official, CMDA.
- Technical Advisor/Traffic Manager, Chennai Port.
- General Manager, Freight Chennai Airport.
- Chief Freight Transportation Manager, Southern Railway.
- T T Narendran, Professor, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras.
International Speakers
- Dr. José Holguín-Veras,
William H. Hart Professor,
Director of the Volvo Research & Educational Foundations' - Dr. Miguel Jaller, Research Associate,
Center for Infrastructure, Transportation and the Environment,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. - Dr. Kasuya Kawamura, Associate Professor,
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC),
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs.
International Speakers Profile
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Dr. José Holguín-Veras is the William H. Hart Professor, and Director of the Volvo Research and
Educational Foundations' Center of Excellence on Sustainable Urban Freight Systems at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,
NY. His current research activities focus on three major areas: freight transportation demand modeling, sustainable freight policy, and humanitarian logistics. He is one of the
the most widely published and cited freight researchers in the
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Dr. Miguel Jaller is a research associate at the Center for Infrastructure, Transportation and the Environment, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has strong theoretical foundation, practical and consulting experience in industrial and transportation engineering, operations research, and humanitarian logistics. He has focused on developing congestion mitigation strategies and new policies, designing efficient urban delivery systems, and understanding the economic and environmental impacts of freight activity.
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 | Dr. Kasuya Kawamura is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs. He is also the Associate Director of the
Center for Supply Chain Management and Logistics. His expertise includes freight transportation planning, economic impacts evaluation of transportation projects, and empirical evaluation of accessibility measures.
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