Session Details of Accepted Papers

Session I A: ITS Architecture and Traffic Detection Technologies
(July 13, 2012 (Fri.) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Hall 2)

Chair: V. Muralidharan, Director, CDAC - Hyderbad Centre
1. Advanced Inductive Loop Detector System for Lane less Traffic - Mohammed Ali, Boby George, Lelitha Vanajakshi
2. Real-time traffic counting system using video image processing - SubhashisChaudhuriand, Gopal Patil
3. Phased Development of ITS System Architecture for Traffic Management in India - Mandar Khanal, Vinay Maitri,
       Pradip Sarkar
4. Implementation Challenges in Mysore ITS Project - Vijay Kovvali, Shanmugananda Venkatarayappa, IBI Group
5. Parking Made Easy with ePark!! A Sparkling Technology - G. Satheesh, K. Kiruba

Session I B: Urban Transportation Planning - Advances and Applications
(July 13, 2012 (Fri.) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Hall 3)

Chair: K. P. Subramanian, Professor (Retd.), Anna University
1. Spatial Analysis of Trip Generation in Chennai City - Karthik K Srinivasan, B. Vishnu
2. Comprehensive Transportation Planning for the Selected Corridors in Bangalore City - H. S. Jagadeesh, H. S. Satish

Session II A: Traffic Flow and Operations
(July 13, 2012 (Fri.) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Hall 2)

Chair: V. Thamizh Arasan, Professor (Retd.), IIT Madras
1. Study on Traffic Flow Characteristics at work zones using Simulation - D. Jebaselwin Gladson, K. Karthiga, K. Gunasekaran
2. Traffic Flow Modelling of the Delhi Gurgaon Expressway- An Empirical and a Simulation Approach
      - Balaji Ponnu, Ravikiran Puvvala, Shriniwas S Arkatkar
3. On General Optimisation of a Stochastic Toll-Booth System Proposed in High Traffic Density Conditions
      - Rohan Shah, Prabhat Shrivastava
4. Univariate Time Series Modeling for Traffic Volume Estimation - Kartikeya Jha, Shriniwas S Arkatkar

Session II B: Urban Road Traffic Safety - Evaluation and Tools
(July 13, 2012 (Fri.) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Hall 3)

Chair: A. Veeraragavan, Professor, IIT Madras
1. An On-board Embedded System for Monitoring the Loss of Attention in Human Drivers
      - AurobindaRoutray, Anirban Dasgupta, Anjith George, S L Happy, Tara Shanker
2. Development of a Toolbox for Evaluation and Identification of Urban Road Safety Improvement Measures
      - M. V. L. R. Anjaneyulu , S. Anjana
3. iRIDS - Intelligent Red Light Violation Identification System - E.B Benoygopal, P. Ravikumar
4. Safety Evaluation Tool for Roundabouts - V. Asnidha, S. Anjana, M. V. L. R. Anjaneyulu

Session III A: Public Transportation and APTS
(July 14, 2012 (Sat.) 9:00 am - 10:30 am Hall 2)

Chair: S. Vishwanath, Ex-Director (Engg.), BMC
1. Bus Travel Time Prediction Using State Space Models - Vasantha Kumar, Lelitha Vanajakshi, Shankar C. Subramanian
2. Evaluation of Bus Operations with ETM and GPS data - K. Gunasekaran, A. Kavi, P. Knoppers
3. Challenges on Implementation of Multi modal integration in Chennai City - Chennai Metro Rail Perspective
      - N.K. Kumar, T. Chandrasekar, R. Narendra Kumar

Session III B: Characterization of Traffic
(July 14, 2012 (Sat.) 9:00 am - 10:30 am Hall 3)

Chair: K. Gunasekaran, Associate Professor, Anna University, Chennai
1. Influence of Vehicular Composition and Lane Discipline on Delays at Signalised Intersections under Heterogeneous Traffic
      Conditions - R.V. Yogesh Kumar, A. Gowri, R. Sivanandan
2. Behavioural analysis of Pedestrians while crossing the road at intersection - G. Nisha, Mukti Advani, A.U. Ravi Shankar
3. Study of Traffic characteristic on a National Highway passing through Peri - urban Area in Agartala, Tripura
      - Pritam Saha, Ashoke Kumar Sarkar, Manish Pal

Session IV A: ITS Applications
(July 14, 2012 (Sat.) 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Hall 2)

Chair: Tara Shanker, Scientist E, DeitY, GoI
1. Real-time transit planner - P. Vedagiri, Dillip Rout, Nidhi Goel
2. Traffic Signal coordination as an ITS measure for Urban Arterials in Chennai City
      - S. Naveen Kumar, S. Moses Santhakumar, Samson Mathew
3. A Quantitative Comparison of Dynamic Traffic Assignment Modeling Packages for Heterogeneous Traffic Composition
      - V. S. Parvathy, Gitakrishnan Ramadurai

Session IV B: Transportation Sustainability and Pavement Infrastructure
(July 14, 2012 (Sat.) 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Hall 3)

Chair: A. Veeraragavan, Professor, IIT Madras
1. Influence of traffic on indoor air quality of naturally and mechanically ventilated building located near an urban roadway
      - J. Rohit, V.S. Chithra, M. Kishore Kumar, S.M. Shiva Nagendra, R. Sivanandan
2. Development and Validation of Deterioration Models for Selected Urban Roads
      - H. S. Jagadeesh, M. K. Harikeerthan, G. Prathima
3. Studies on the performance of ultra thin cement concrete overlays on flexible pavements - C.C. Abhijith, S.P. Mahendra
4. Urban Pavement Maintenance Management System - Samson Mathew, V. Sunitha

Session V: ATMS & ATIS
(July 14, 2012 (Sat.) 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Auditorium )

Chair: P. Ravikumar, Joint Director, CDAC-T
1. Intelligent Wireless Road Traffic signal Controller - R. Prakash, P. Ravikumar
2. Advanced Traveller Information System for Indian Cities - Dr. Gitakrishnan Ramadurai, Dr. Lelitha Devi,
      Dr. Karthik K. Srinivasan, Dr. R. Sivanandan , Asha Anand, Charan Mitchanagatla, Dipankar Das,
      Krishna Kumar Selvam, Ravi V, Rakshith P & Subodhkant Dubey
3. Design and evaluation of area traffic control system (SIMTAM and CosCiCost2G) - Tom V Mathew
4. Preferences of Private Drivers for Advanced Traveller Information System in Trivandrum City
      - M. Satyakumar, R. Anil, Minu Elizabeth Mathai

Poster Session (July 13, 2012(Fri) : Tea Break, Lunch Break & 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm ,
                          July 14, 2012(Sat) : Tea Break & Lunch Break )

42. Evaluation of Infrared and Radar based Traffic Sensors under Indian Traffic Conditions
      - V. Ramesh, J. Sivasubramaniam, N. Venkatachalam
43. Performance of Video Traffic Sensors under Indian Traffic Conditions - Jithin Raj, V. Ramesh, Sunny Raja Varma, E. Raji
44. Bluetooth sensor for traffic data collection under Indian conditions - Nitish Agarwal, Sunny Raja Varma, P. S. Madhan
45. Atal Sarige: Effective Model for Public Transport for the Poor in Bangalore? Srikant Shastry, Robin King, Amit Bhat
46. Pricing Public Transport: Case Study - Jaipur City Bus Service: Amit Bhatt, Umang Jain
47. Design, Simulation, Feasibility Study of Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) System for proposed Navi Mumbai International Airport
      and Adjacent Precincts - S. Khilnani Achal, S. Desai Prathamesh, Prabhat Shrivastava
48. Implementation of ITS Systems in Bus Based Mass Transit Systems - Mahek Dave, Pratik Dave
49. Responding to the changes in the urban public transport sector: Tensions facing managers and managerial responses
      - Margie Parikh, G. Raghuram, Deepti Bhatnagar
50. Safety Evaluation of Urban Midblocks - T. R. Mridu, S. Anjana, M. V. L. R. Anjaneyulu
51. Traffic Signal Optimisation Considering Stochastic Variability of Indian Mixed Traffic Conditions
      - Sahodar Gade, Ashish Verma, Anurag Kumar
52. Evaluation of Grade Separation Arrangement on Rajiv Gandhi Salai using Simulation
      - S. Nithya , D. Senthurkumar, Dr. K. Gunasekaran
53. Development of a Bluetooth Based Traffic Data Acquisition System - Elanchezian V, Milind N, Karthik S
54. Estimation of Spatial Traffic Parametrs under Heterogeneous Traffic Conditions
      - Vasantha Kumar , Ajitha, T, Vincy Verghese, R. Asha Anand
55. Derivation of Basic Passenger Car Units using Traffic Simulation - Praveen P. S, Dr. Thamizh Arasan V
56. Continuous Virtual Mini Loop (CVML) based Video Image Processing Software for Traffic Data Collection
      - Manipriya Sankaranarayanan, Dr. Gitakrishnan Ramadurai
57. Development of Real Time Bus Passenger and Traveler Information Systems under Indian Traffic Conditions
      - Akhilesh Koppineni , Krishna Chaitanya, Siddharth K.