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Akhilesh Srivastava, CGM (IT) & Importance of MaaS emphasized of buying separate tickets for buses,
COO-IHMCL, National Highways upon by speakers: Many speakers at Metro, etc. Likewise, all the factors
Authority of India and Michael the seminars laid emphasis on Mobility can be, and will be, combined under
Hirsh, Regional Director – India, as a Service (MaaS), driving home the MaaS which is very disruptive. Any
Mobileye Vision Technologies made point that bundling all the packages Transport network can be accessed
Special presentations. Monali Shah, together allows the passenger to with one App or Model under it, he
Director, Intelligent Transportation, access all transport networks with one said. Nikhil Agarwal, Co-Founder &
HERE Technologies, Chicago came App, making it convenient for him CEO, Zophop spoke on ‘MaaS a reality
specially to give the keynote address to travel. Jaspal Singh, Head of UITP in India? Sooner than you think’. This
of the second session on the first India’s presentataion on ‘IMove Project session too felt that people do not
day of the show. She spoke on use available Public Transport mode
‘From Big Data to Information in Europe – MaaS Pilot’ was very because of inefficiency or unavailability.
to Intelligence’. Kevin Martin well received. “MaaS will bundle all MaaS could change all that.
of DataCorp Traffic, Germany packages together and the stakeholder Dr Rajesh Krishnan, CEO, ITS
(Transport Data Collection), in his will get everything together instead Planners and Engineers Pvt Ltd,
address, spoke on ‘An introduction spoke on the new technologies in
to Transport Data Collection’, ITS, and Dr Ravikumar, Joint Director
while ‘Urban Traffic Control: Using – Intelligent Transportation and
adaptive techniques to improve Networking Section (ITNS), Centre
traffic conditions in India’s Cities’ for Development of Advanced
was the subject Ian Mayhew, Head Computing (C-DAC) spoke on ‘Future
– Consultancy services, Siemens UK of Mobility – Intelligent Transportation
spoke on ‘Predictive Analytics in System to Intelligent Transportation
Intelligent Transport System’. Service’. Sonal Ahuja, Regional
On the second day, Abhay Damle, Director, PTV MENA Region DMCC
Joint Secretary (Transport), MoRTH (‘New Mobility Options integrating
gave an interesting Special Address transport modes’) and Dr Gerhard
on ‘Personalised Transport to Shared Ploss, Head International & Business
Mobility’. Abbas Ravat, Director – Development, Swarco Traffic Holding
Product Marketing and Smart City GmbH (‘Vehicle-to-infrastructure
Alliances, KPIT Technologies gave a Dr Ravikumar communication as a key element for
presentation. Smart Cities’) also spoke.

Abbas Ravat Jaspal Singh Nikhil Agarwal Dr Rajesh Krishnan

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