In the final episode Prof. Shivanand Swamy, Director Emeritus, Center of Excellence in Urban Transport, CRDF is in conversation with Waltraut Ritter, independent researcher and founder of Knowledge Dialogues. They talk about data analytics supporting cities mobility and resilience, human intervention on transportation, BRTS issues in integration, and sustainable development goal for mobility. The episode also focuses on how data-driven models are used in transportation monitoring and data analytics for mobility to make cities resilient.
Prof. Shivanand Swamy is an economist and urban and regional planner with deep experience in transport systems, integrated land-use transport planning and development management. He has been teaching at CEPT University since 1986 and has served as a policy and systems advisor to National, State and Local Governments on transport planning initiatives across the country. He has been instrumental in spearheading the planning and operationalization of Janmarg, Ahmedabad, the first dedicated Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) in India. He has also supported the planning and development of BRT systems in Surat, Indore, and Hubbali–Dharwad. Prof. Swamy has been an advisor to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India on evolving planning and design guidelines for BRTS and scaling up of bus-based services in Indian cities. He is currently involved in facilitating technology adoption, operations, financing, and capacity building for transitioning to electric public mobility in India. Prof. Swamy is an active member of the Developing Countries Committee of the Transport Research Board.
Waltraut Ritter is the founder of Knowledge Dialogues, specializing in research and advisory services relating to innovation, knowledge, and intellectual capital across the Asia‐Pacific region and Europe. She works on innovation projects at the intersection between universities, government, business, and civil society. Ritter is currently working on open innovation, a multi-stakeholder programme on transport data sharing for sustainable mobility in Hong Kong. She also regularly contributes to knowledge‐economy research of UNESCAP, UNESCO and OECD. She holds an MA in Information Science and Sociology from the Free University of Berlin and an MBA from Anglia University, Cambridge, U.K. Ritter is also a founding member of the New Club of Paris, a knowledge‐economy think tank, the International Council on Knowledge Management, and is serving on the ICT Committee of the European Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and Macau.
