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Traffic Engineering As Scientific Approach Towards Safety Traffic Management in Developing Countries, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi : Jan.6-7, 2006

Road Safety in the developing countries is assuming a serious dimension with fatal and serious accidents on the rise. Other areas of concern are the constant rise in number of traffic violations, and unabated congestion resulting in road rage, crime, and pollution.

Developing countries are investing huge amount of resources in increasing their highway capacity without adequate research and investments in the area of traffic management. In parallel to the expansion and building of new roadway network, local automobile

industry in joint ventures with global automobile manufacturers is forging ahead with introducing a
variety of models in automobile market. In India, for example, the annual growth rate of motor vehicles
is as high as 10%.

Role and responsibility of traffic management agencies have not been adequately defined leaving
ambiguity in all respective areas of traffic engineering, road safety education, driver training, vehicle
regulation, traffic control and enforcement. It may be surprising to note that the subject of Traffic
Engineering, which is the fulcrum of traffic management, has been either totally missed out or
neglected. Traffic Engineering has not been adopted by the government departments either at the
federal, state or local authority levels. Without the application of scientific traffic engineering on a
sustained and continuous basis, traffic control and enforcement remain handicapped.

Traffic Engineering Centers were established by the developed countries like USA and U.K. since
1930's, however, countries like India are still outsourcing the traffic engineering applications to
consultancy services leading to non-development of a responsible road agency and safe road user
culture.

To initiate the process of appreciating the concept and introduction of Traffic Engineering Centres by
the city/highways authority in the developing countries, especially India, the IRTE is organizing a two
day International Workshop supported by Ministry of Shipping Road Transport and Highways in New
Delhi on January 6 and 7, 2006.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

Technical Session 1
Defining Traffic Engineering In Today's Context And Successful Practices Worldwide

Chairman
Dr. Mark Rosenberg , Dir. Of Secretariat Global Road Safety Steering Committee & Exec.
Dir. Task Force For Child Survival & Development, USA

Co-chairman
Mr. A P Bahadur , Chief Engineer, Ministry of Shipping, Road, Transport & Highways,
Govt. of India

Speakers

1. Dr. Raman Patel - Director Urban ITS Centre, Polytechnic College, New York City
Traffic engineering Practice, Traffic Management Measures, Lessons from New
York for New Delhi,

2. Prof. Radin Umar- Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic & International Affairs)
University in Malaysia Road Safety Interventions in Malaysia

3. Mr. John Dawson- Chairman, EURORAP, Secretary FIA Foundation
The Contribution of Road Assessment Programme to Road Safety Engineering and Management.

4. Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, Coordinator GRSP & Mr. Mohammed Abdullah Saleem , IPS, Deputy Commissioner of Police,
Traffic East, Bangalore- Local Area Traffic Management, Indranagar Banglore.

Technical Session 2

Traffic Engineering Supported By Collision Investigation And Analysis, Reduction Of Collision Related Damage And Injury

Chairman

Ms. Kate McMahon , Former Head Road Safety Strategy Division,
Dept of Transport, Govt. of UK -Road Safety in Great Britain.

Co-chairman

Mr. Hem Chand, IPS, Addl. Director General and Inspector General of Police, Traffic, West Bengal

Speakers

1.Dr. Prof. Hermann Steffan - Head Engineering, University of Graz,
Austria Integrated Safety From Ideas to strategies.

2. Mr. Erik Donkers- Chairperson VIA, Netherlands.
A Successful Approach To Road Safety- A Dutch Model.

3. Mr. Krzysztof Jamrozik - Project Manager, National Road Safety Council, Poland
Regional Black Spot Treatment Programme

Technical Session 3

Traffic Policing And Control Through Effective Traffic Engineering

Chairman

Mr. John Dawson , Chairman, EURORAP & Secretary FIA Foundation

Co-chairman

Mr. Praveen Sood, Commissioner of Police, Mysore

Speakers

1.Mr. Richard Pepe- Chairman, Team Traffic, and former in charge
Traffic Police, New York Traffic Police Dept The Traffic Stat Process

2. Mr.Rohit Baluja- President, IRTE
Importance of standardization & the uniformity in the application of Traffic control devices.

3.Mr. Andrew Grenter- Training Manager Transport Research Laboratory,
United Kingdom Self Enforcing Roads

Technical Session 4

Traffic Engineering For Vulnerable Road Users/Mixed Traffic Conditions

Chairman

Thomas Brahms , Executive Director and CEO, Institute of
Transportation Engineers, Washington, U.S.A

Co-Chairman

Mr. Bassam Anani , First Economic affairs Officer United Nations
Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)

Speakers

Mr. Greig Craft - President, Asia Injury Prevention Foundation, Hanoi, Vietnam .
Road Safety Overview Vietnam

Mr. Hubert Nove Josserand- Senior Urban Transport Specialist, World Bank
NMT In Cities and Lesson From Experience in African Cities

Mr. Shashank Singh- Mgr Road Safety, Castrol India Ltd ., Amandeep Bedi, IRTE
Journey Risk Management

Dr. T. S. Reddy - Scientist & Head Traffic Engineering & Safety, CRRI
High Speed Corridors-Some Lessons

Technical Session 5

Chairman

Mr. Hubert Nove Josserand- Senior Urban Transport
pecialist, World Bank

Co-Chairman

Mr. Richard Pepe- Chairman, Team Traffic, and former in charge
Traffic Police, New York Traffic Police Dept

Setting Up Of Traffic Engineering Centers & Governmental Coordination

Speakers

1. Ms. Kate McMahon , Former Head Road Safety Strategy Division,
Dept of Transport, Govt. of UK -Road Safety in Great Britain
The Role of The Department For Transport

2. Mr. Thomas W. Brahms, Executive Director and CEO, Institute of
Transportation Engineers, Washington Presentation On The ITE

3. Mr. Adrian Walsh- Director, Road Safe & gTKP
About Global Transport Knowledge Partnership

4.Mr. Andrew Downing, Asean Regional Director
GRSP and building Capacity

5.Mr. Bassam Anani- First Economic Affairs Officer , United
Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia( ESCWA)
ESCWA Role in Road traffic safety

Technical Session 6

Traffic Engineering Course in Universities & Employment Opportunities

Chairman

Co-Chairman

Speakers

1.Prof P K Sikdar- Director ICT
Traffic Engineering: University Curricula and Practices

3.Mr. Raman Patel , Director Urban ITS Centre, Polytechnic College, New York City

Valedictory Session 15.00 - 16.00
Concluding remarks & Intervention

Chairman

Prof P K Sikdar- Director ICT

Co-Chairman

Mr. Adrian Walsh- Director The Global Transport knowledge Partnership & Road Safe

Vote of Thanks

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