Center for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP)
The Indian Institute of Science is pleased to announce the establishment of the Center for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP) with generous financial contribution from Government of Karnataka to develop a unique expertise having an interface in the areas of infrastructure, sustainable transportation and urban planning. CiSTUP will be engaged in several activities such as basic and applied research and development, academic programs, training programs, workshops and consultancy projects in the areas of infrastructure, sustainable transportation systems and urban planning. CiSTUP intends to generate trained technical and scientific professionals in these areas. In addition, it will facilitate research in urban flooding, urban heat island effects, solid waste management, seismic microzonation, disaster mitigation, remote sensing, resource optimization, mathematical modeling, pavement geotechnics, pavement design, ground improvement techniques and other aspects of urban infrastructure and planning. CiSTUP also plans to set up a specialized library and publish books and monographs dealing with these themes. The centre will promote outreach / training activities to the stake holders in the areas of infrastructure, sustainable transportation & traffic engineering and urban planning. Online programmes in these fields are also being planned. The center will setup laboratories in transportation & traffic engineering, Geoinformatics, and disaster mitigation. Further, there will be CiSTUP lecture series, annual conference for the practicing community and decision makers and annual special invited lectures on the topics of sustainable transportation, infrastructure and urban planning. The centre will also undertake joint research and training programmes in collaboration with several leading institutes of higher learning in related areas of interest.
Chairman,
Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP)
Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore - 560012, INDIA email:cistup@civil.iisc.ernet.in
or cistup.iisc@gmail.com
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