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TRAFFICINFRATECH EXPO 2024
The Smart Mobility Conference ppreciating the title ‘Green Mobility
2024-Enabling Responsible Mobility Greener Future’-Prof. Ashish Verma
wondered how one could create
was organised during the 12th edition a win-win situation for both the
of Asia’s leading Integrated Expo transportation sector and the
TrafficInfraTech from 22nd to 24th Agovernment in achieving their
October at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. development and sustainability goals. Solutions
needed to be tailored, positioned and adopted
Day one opened with a panel discussion to ensure they solved core transportation and
on Mobility India: From Green to mobility challenges as well as helped achieve a
Greener, with the keynote address being greener future.
delivered by Michael Schuch, CEO, Transportation is a stimulator for prosperity
SWARCO. The discussion was moderated and wealth as it is considered the backbone of
by Prof. Ashish Verma, Transportation a healthy and strong economy, said Schuch,
whose company has been in the business of
Systems Engg, Convenor, Sustainable road safety for 55 years. Key to a more efficient,
Transportation Lab, Dept. of Civil Engg. safe and sustainable road traffic network is in
Indian Institute of Science and included embracing new technologies; be it artificial
panellists Shreenivas Prabhakararao, intelligence, machine learning, big data, cloud
CEO-India, Viaplus By VINCI Highways solutions, cloud processing and edge computing.
Vehicle to infrastructure communication as
and Manjunath Sekhar, Head, well as predictive algorithms lead not only to
Sustainable Urban Mobility Innovation optimise traffic flows but also reduce congestion
Living Lab, GIZ. and accidents which ultimately reduce carbon
emission or greenhouse gases.
While Europe is passing through a difficult
period economically, the Indian market is seeing
significant investment and growth with billions
of dollars going into building and maintaining
road infrastructure. Based on learnings from
developed countries, India has a huge opportunity
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