US-India bilateral collaboration to enhance transportation—A decade of experience

Established in 2004 as a non-profit organization, the Association of Transportation Professionals of Indian Origin (ATPIO) is focused on its strategic objective of facilitating bilateral collaborative activities and partnerships between diverse groups of transportation professionals in US and India. These activities include research, as well as knowledge and technology transfer. Over the past decade ATPIO has organized free webinars, technical presentations at its Annual Meetings, co-sponsored conferences and workshops; as well as collaborated with academics, research organizations and governmental agencies both in US and in India. This paper summarizes these activities and discusses collaborative research between academics from US and India. The paper also discusses ATPIO’s current and proposed future initiatives aimed at bringing public and private sector counterparts from US and India together to facilitate current research based knowledge and technology transfer for betterment of transportation in the 21 st Century. The paper concludes with a brief summary of ATPIO’s accomplishments and identifies challenges it has encountered in the pursuit of its strategic objective.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2016.09.004
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213624X16300463
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  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/2213624X
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Shirole’, A M
• Publication Date: 2017-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 22-30
• Serial:
  • Case Studies on Transport Policy
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 2213-624X
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/2213624X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cooperation; Research; Technology transfer
• Geographic Terms: India; United States
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Research; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01633641
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 8 2017 8:43AM