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Comprehensive and insightful about making of some of pioneering transport infrastructure projects in India by people who were involved in their design and making....
Exhaustive coverage with case studies of road- bridges and metro projects in the three metropolitan cities of Delhi, Kolkatta and Mumbai....
Provides insights into design & engineering of mobility infrastructure which drives contemporary urbanisation in India....
Urban growth in India has been poised towards an upward curve and continues to remain so over the coming years reflecting the global trend. Today, more than half the world's population lives in urban areas while urban population in India has increased from 82 out of 431 million in 1961 to 410 out of 1285 million in 2015. The present 60% GDP in India from urban areas also reflects the economic significance of urbanisation and the corresponding Infrastructure development.
In the absence of an informed approach, development tends to be wasteful of resources and often leads to chaos rather than provide a solution. An integrated development approach to urbanagglomeration has become necessary in this context. Correspondingly, infrastructure planning and implementation within the urban agglomerates as well as the ones forming the networks between urban and rural centres needs to be informed by the experiences within the Indian context.
Dr. BIDHAN CHANDRA ROY, PRK MURTHY, VIKRAM PAWAR
Bidhan Chandra Roy BCE, M.Tech. (Struct), Ph.D (Engg.), FNAE (India), FIE (India), FIStructE(UK), Chartered Structural Engineer, FASCE(USA), FICE(UK), FIABSE(Zurich), Honorary Member & Former Vice President of IABSE
In a career spanning over 45 years in Civil/Structural engineering, Dr. B C Roy has dealt with many major projects; experience in such projects ranges from developing concept plan to execution. Dr. Roy has been deeply involved in several major bridge projects, grade separators, elevated & underground corridors under highly varying site conditions and project requirements. His contribution to the field of bridge design and construction extends from conceptualization to construction supervision. He has also been involved in other types of structures such as mass rapid transit system, high speed corridors/expressways/roads, long span shell roofs including use of semi-continuous shell roofs, underground structures, industrial structures, multi-storied buildings, and transportation studies, stadiums, etc.
