Urban Mobility Research in India: Umi Research Symposium 2022
暫譯: 印度城市交通研究：Umi研究研討會2022

本書呈現了2022年第十五屆城市流動性印度會議暨博覽會第十三屆研究研討會的選定論文。它專注於可持續的自給自足（Atmanirbhar）城市流動性，採用跨學科的方法，涵蓋經濟學、規劃、管理和工程等領域。內容涵蓋多種主題，如智慧城市與智慧流動性、可持續交通規劃與政策、大眾交通與非機動交通（NMT）、脆弱道路使用者（VRUs）的道路安全、適合所有人的城市交通基礎設施設計、可持續流動性與土地使用（LU）、可持續城市貨運、電動城市流動性以及城市交通治理。本書對於研究交通系統工程的畢業生、研究生及博士生具有重要意義。此外，本書對於城市與交通規劃者、交通分析師、顧問、交通顧問以及在規劃、開發、運營、管理和執行交通項目方面的專家也非常有幫助。

Prof. (Dr.) Ashish Verma is Convenor of 'IISc Sustainable Transportation Lab. (IST Lab.)'. He is Ph.D. from IIT Bombay and is currently serving as Professor of Transportation Systems Engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. Further, he was Visiting Professor at ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, during 2016 and Visiting Fellow at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia, during 2019. Before joining IISc, he has served in IIT Guwahati and Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA). His research interests are in sustainable transportation planning and policy, integrated public transport planning and management, transport and quality of life (QoL), transport and climate change, modelling and optimization of transportation systems, travel behaviour analysis and modelling, pedestrian and crowd flow modelling, driver behaviour and road safety, intelligent transportation system (ITS), traffic control and management, etc. He has authored more than 250 research publications, including more than 95 journal publications in the area of sustainable transportation. He has also authored a book on 'Public Transport Planning and Management in Developing Countries' published by CRC Press and another book on 'Integrated Public Transportation System - Planning and Modelling', published by VDM Publishing House Ltd. He has also been Co-Editor of Conference Proceedings of WCTR-2016, 5th CTRG, RATE-2018, and 6th CTRG (currently under processing), published by leading publishers, Elsevier and Springer. He is Former Editor of journal 'Transport Policy', Elsevier; Associate Editor of 'Urban Rail Transit', Springer, and 'Journal of Modern Mobility Systems (JMMS)', Mason Publishing. He is Founding and Immediate Past President of the society Transportation Research Group of India (TRG). He is presently serving as Steering and Scientific Committee Member of World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) based on University of Leeds, UK. He has also been recently elected as Hony. Secretary of Institute of Urban Transport (India).
Shri M. L. Chotani has a master's degree in city and Regional Planning from School of Planning, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (1975), and a postgraduate diploma in Urban Survey and Human Settlement Analysis from International Institute of Aerospace and Earth Science (ITC), Enschede, the Netherlands (1987). He was superannuated from the post of Additional Chief Planner in August 2009 from Town and Country Planning Organization, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Govt. of India. He is Fellow Member of Institute of Town Planner (India) and Life Member of Institute of Urban Transport (India). Currently, he is working as Consultant and RDO in IUT. He has more than 48 years of experience in urban planning, urban transport, appraisal evaluation and monitoring of urban projects, capacity building, and teaching. He has vast experience in preparing master plan, regional plans, district plans, comprehensive mobility plan toolkit, and evaluation of urban transport projects. He was associate in study on E-Rickshaw in Indian Cities, City Wide Integrated Multimodal Transport Toolkit and Bus Sector study in India. He has been involved in Capacity Building Programme for officials from Metro Rail Companies and Sustainable Urban Transport Project of UN and World Bank for State Govt. Officials working in Transport Sector. Currently, he is associated with the studies on Impact of Metro Projects and Innovative Financing. He has been involved in the annual flagship event on Urban Mobility India Conference cum Expo. being organized by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs as well as preparation of conference proceeding thereof since the last 10 years. He is Member of editorial board of the Research Journal of IUT

阿希什·維爾瑪教授（Dr. Ashish Verma）是「印度科學研究所可持續交通實驗室（IISc Sustainable Transportation Lab.，簡稱IST Lab.）」的召集人。他擁有印度理工學院孟買分校（IIT Bombay）的博士學位，目前擔任印度班加羅爾印度科學研究所（Indian Institute of Science，簡稱IISc）土木工程系的交通系統工程教授。此外，他在2016年曾擔任俄羅斯聖彼得堡ITMO大學的訪問教授，並在2019年擔任澳大利亞布里斯班昆士蘭科技大學（Queensland University of Technology，簡稱QUT）的訪問研究員。在加入IISc之前，他曾在印度理工學院古瓦哈提分校（IIT Guwahati）和孟買大都會區發展局（Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority，簡稱MMRDA）任職。他的研究興趣包括可持續交通規劃與政策、綜合公共交通規劃與管理、交通與生活品質（QoL）、交通與氣候變遷、交通系統的建模與優化、旅行行為分析與建模、行人與人群流動建模、駕駛行為與道路安全、智慧交通系統（ITS）、交通控制與管理等。他已發表超過250篇研究論文，其中95篇以上為可持續交通領域的期刊論文。他還撰寫了一本名為《發展中國家的公共交通規劃與管理》的書籍，由CRC Press出版，以及一本名為《綜合公共交通系統 - 規劃與建模》的書籍，由VDM Publishing House Ltd.出版。他曾擔任WCTR-2016、第五屆CTRG、RATE-2018和第六屆CTRG（目前正在處理中）會議論文集的共同編輯，這些論文集由知名出版社Elsevier和Springer出版。他是期刊《交通政策》（Transport Policy）的前編輯，Springer的《城市軌道交通》（Urban Rail Transit）和《現代流動系統期刊》（Journal of Modern Mobility Systems，簡稱JMMS）的副編輯。他是印度交通研究小組（Transportation Research Group of India，簡稱TRG）的創始人及即任前會長。目前，他擔任基於英國利茲大學的世界交通研究學會（World Conference on Transport Research Society，簡稱WCTRS）的指導委員會和科學委員會成員。他最近還當選為印度城市交通研究所（Institute of Urban Transport，簡稱IUT）的榮譽秘書。

M. L. Chotani先生擁有印度阿姆利則古魯納納克大學規劃學院的城市與區域規劃碩士學位（1975年），以及荷蘭恩斯赫德國際航空與地球科學研究所（International Institute of Aerospace and Earth Science，簡稱ITC）城市調查與人類居住分析的研究生文憑（1987年）。他於2009年8月從印度住房與城市事務部的城鄉規劃組織（Town and Country Planning Organization）退休，擔任附加首席規劃師。他是印度城市規劃師協會的院士會員，並且是印度城市交通研究所的終身會員。目前，他在IUT擔任顧問和RDO。他在城市規劃、城市交通、城市項目的評估與監控、能力建設和教學方面擁有超過48年的經驗。他在編制總體規劃、區域規劃、區域計劃、綜合流動性計劃工具包以及城市交通項目的評估方面擁有豐富的經驗。他曾參與印度城市的電動三輪車（E-Rickshaw）研究、城市綜合多模式交通工具包以及印度的巴士行業研究。他參與了地鐵公司官員的能力建設計劃，以及聯合國和世界銀行針對交通部門的州政府官員的可持續城市交通項目。目前，他參與地鐵項目的影響研究和創新融資的研究。他參與了由印度住房與城市事務部組織的城市流動性印度會議暨博覽會的年度旗艦活動，並自十年前以來負責該會議的論文集準備工作。他是IUT研究期刊的編輯委員會成員。