THEE Workshop December 17-19, 2007 1 Workshop Schedule Monday, December 17 9:30-10:30 AM Welcome MG Badami (McGill) & G Tiwari (IITD) Inauguration of workshop Mr. M. Ramachandran, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of Welcome from the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Prof. AS Narang, on behalf of Prof. Gary vanloon, President, 10:30-10:45 AM Introductions All participants 10:45-11:30 AM Keynote address Prof. Dinesh Mohan (IITD) 11:30-12:00 PM Tea 12:00-1:00 PM Workshop on THEE in n Cities: Rationale, Objectives, and Agenda Badami (McGill) Follow-up Discussion Session I Transport, Air Pollution and Health 2:00-3:30 PM Presentation 1 Analysis of Air Quality Trends and Climate Impacts over Delhi using Met. Visibility, Satellites and CPCB Data Presentation 2 Using Analysis over Multiple Time Scales to Assess Air Quality over Delhi Presentation 3 Climate Impacts of Air Quality Policy: CNG in New Delhi Presentation 4 Personal Exposure to Transport Air Pollution AND Source Apportionment of Human Exposure to Particulates in Mumbai 3:30-4:00 PM Tea 4:00-5:30 PM Presentation 5 Impact of Delhi s CNG Program on Air Quality Presentation 6 Evaluation of Transport Air Pollution Control Policies: Emission Inventories and Factors Presentation 7 -- Research Opportunities for Monitoring Urban Transport and its Impact Thoughts from THEE Workshop Chair: Anumita Roychowdhury (CSE) RK Jenamani ( Meteorological Department) M Kandlikar (UBC) C Reynolds (UBC) M Kulkarni (Sardar Patel College of Engg) Chair: Prodipto Ghosh, Distinguished Fellow, TERI U Narain (Resources for the Future) NV Iyer (ex-bajaj Auto Limited) R North (Imperial College) Respondent: Badami
THEE Workshop December 17-19, 2007 2 Tuesday, December 18 Session II Road Safety 9:30-11:00 AM Chair: S Sundar, Distinguished Fellow, TERI Presentation 1 Politics of Mobility and the Science (?) of Safety Presentation 2 Long-term Health and Welfare Effects of Traffic Accident Injuries 11:00-11:30 AM Tea 11:30 AM-1:00 PM Presentation 3 Accident Analysis and Data Needs Presentation 4 Road traffic deaths, injuries and disabilities : Information availability, Needs and Applications Session III Access for Non-motorized Modes and the Urban Poor 2:00-3:30 PM Presentation 1 Accessibility in n Cities: Some Thoughts toward a Research Agenda Presentation 2 Transport Needs of the Urban Poor: Changing Dynamics in Globalizing n Metropolises 3:30-4:00 PM Tea 4:00-5:30 PM Presentation 3 Impact of Transport Projects on Accessibility and Mobility of the Urban Poor: Case of the Delhi Metro Presentation 4 NMV/NMT in n Cities Mohan (IITD) M Varghese (St. Stephen s Hospital) Chair: G K Sharma, NATRIP K Bhalla (Harvard) G Gururaj (NIMHANS) Respondent: Tiwari (IITD) Chair: Milind Kandlikar, UBC Badami (McGill) D Mahadevia (CEPT) Chair : OP Mathur, NIPFP A Arora (IITD) Tiwari (IITD) Respondents: Hazards Centre, Delhi
THEE Workshop December 17-19, 2007 3 Wednesday, December 19 Session IV The Research-Policy Interface: Addressing Institutional Challenges 9:30-11:00 AM Chair: Anil Baijal, Chairman, Infrastructure Initiative Presentation 1 Bridging the Policy-Research Divide in Urban Transport Presentation 2 Urban Transport Research- Policy-Operation Interface: The External Environment 11:00-11:30 AM Tea 11:30 AM-12:15 PM Presentation 3 Urban Transport Governance and Financing Presentation 4 Are We Preaching only to the Converted? OP Agarwal (Urban Mass Transit Company) PS Kharola (Administrative Reforms Commission, Government of ) Chair: KC Sivaramakrishnan, Centre for Policy Research M Haider (Ryerson) Sujit Patwardhan (Parisar, and Pune Transport and Traffic Forum, Pune) Presentation 5 Is there Anyone Listening Out There? Sudhir Badami (Transport and Urban Analyst and Activist, Mumbai) Respondent: SK Lohia (MoUD, GoI) 12:15-1:00 PM Summary of Presentations and Discussions Badami (McGill) 2:00-4:00 PM Looking to the Future: Plans for Collaborative Research Chair: Mohan (IITD) Discussion All participants 4:00-4:15 PM Closing Remarks Tiwari/Badami 4:30-5:30 PM Farewell Tea
THEE Workshop December 17-19, 2007 4 List of Presenters and Participants Presenters, Chairs and Respondents Canada Madhav Badami McGill University, Montreal Murtaza Haider Ryerson University, Toronto Milind Kandlikar OP Agarwal Urban Mass Transit Company, Delhi Anvita Arora Sudhir Badami Transport and Urban Analyst and Activist, Mumbai Anil Baijal Infrastructure Initiative, Delhi Prodipto Ghosh G Gururaj National Institute of Mental Health and Neurological Sciences, Bangalore NV Iyer Consultant, formerly Bajaj Auto Limited, Pune RK Jenamani Meteorological Department, Delhi PS Kharola Administrative Reforms Commission, Government of Milind Kulkarni Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai SK Lohia Ministry of Urban Development, Government of Darshini Mahadevia Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad OP Mathur National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Delhi Dinesh Mohan Sujit Patwardhan Parisar, and Pune Transport and Traffic Forum, Pune Conor Reynolds Shabnam Sultana; Nukesh Hazards Centre, Delhi Chourasia; Afaq Ullah; Raju Kumar Das Anumita Roychowdhury Centre for Science and Environment, Delhi GK Sharma National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project, Manesar KC Sivaramakrishnan Centre for Policy Research, Delhi Sanjivi Sundar Geetam Tiwari Matthew Varghese St. Stephen s Hospital/IIT Delhi UK Robin North Imperial College, London USA Kavi Bhalla Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Urvashi Narain Resources for the Future, Washington, DC
THEE Workshop December 17-19, 2007 5 Invited Participants Canada Earl Choldin Chuck Chakrapani Christian Krelling Arvind Saraswat Daniel Spitzberg Rahul Nargas Julia Freeman Arun K. Attri Afzal Mohd. Hingora Himani Jain Sunil Kale Ravinder Kaur Shailendra Matoria Mariya Khatoon Mirza AS Narang RS Ramasubramaniam Krishna Rao Rajendra Ravi Vinod Brijwasi; Dinesh Nagar Raghuraj Singh Anila Shukla Ashok Pandey Ragini Roy Sarmistha Roy Vijay Vikram Singh Ashok Srinivasan Ryerson University, Toronto McGill University, Montreal McGill University, TERI McGill University School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi Feedback Ventures, Delhi Public Health Foundation of, Delhi Institute for Democracy and Sustainability, Delhi Beghar Mazdoor Sangharsh Samiti, Delhi Awaaz Society, Delhi Dilli Mahila Kamgar Manch, Delhi Dilli Riksha Chalak Sangh, Delhi Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi Other Countries Simon Bishop Seema Parakh World Resources Institute, Washington, DC Kasphia Nahrin Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh M. Shafiq-ur Rahman Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh