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Vol.4June 2019IITH TEST BED OPENING CEREMONY (MAY 2019)

M2SMART LAB AT IITH

IITH Test Bed Opening Ceremony
by Haruka Katarao, M2Smart Resident Coordinator

Under the mid hot summer, IITH
launched the M2Samrt Test Bed inHyderabad!
M2Smart Test Bed at IITH was finally
opened on 28 May 2019. Followed by
the welcome speech from IITH andJICA, the M2Smart Lab at the IITH
Block C Annex was opened. The guests
from Ministry of Education, Culture,Sports, Science and Technology(MEXT) and Japan Science andTechnology (JST) also participated inthe ceremony.

IITH researchers and M2Smart
Research Assistants conducted thevideo demonstration and showcased
the research activities.
20 Indian media covered this event
and it showed that the M2Smart
project got the high attention becauseof its project goal.

M2 Smart Lab tape cut ceremony

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2IITH Test Bed
By Digvijay S. Pawar, Group 3 Leader
The testbed is now ready for the demonstration at IIT Hyderabad Campus. Small works such as sensor configurations isongoing which is subjected to the data acquisition and modeling. The testbed comprises of various ITS technologies
which are designed to result into efficient and safe traffic movement. This in return will help to understand and model
the carbon emission from vehicular traffic. The proposed ITS system seeks to retrieve and combine the information
available from vehicles and roadside in a synergistic framework so that a transferable and flexible yet sensible system
can be deployed in the emerging low carbon smart cities.

M2Smart Control RoomIITH Testbed Sensor Configuration

World Conference on Transportation Research (WCTR) Young Researchers Conference
Dr. Digvijay, chair of WCTR-Y young researchers conference, successfully conducted the conference on 26th May 2019 atIIT Bombay, Mumbai. More than 200 young researchers from more than 20 countries participated in the conference.

Award for the WCTR Young Conference Chair

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315th World Conference on Transportation
Research (WCTR) at IIT Bombay
By Anand Kakarla

To gain more insight on the current State-of-the-Art of project
objectives and to present our works, some members of the M2Smartproject, Dr. Tsuboi, Prof. Fukuda, Dr. Ishizaka, Dr. Digvijay and myself
attended WCTRS 2019 conference.
Dr. Tsuboi presented a poster on “Dynamic macro analysis for trafficsafety”, which shows quantitative analysis for Japan and India traffic
fatality by the enhanced Sneed’s law validation.

WCTR Plenary Session

Some of them attended the session, ‘Public Transport Integration
with Active Travel’, where Dr. Fukuda presented their research on
evaluation of walking environment around urban railway station in
Bangkok metropolitan area. Further, another important work on
system dynamic model for transport mode behavior analysis wasattended which relates and applies to our cities of interest i.e.,Hyderabad and Ahmedabad. The modelling issues were discussed
during this presentation and few of the implementation specifics
were noted.
We presented on the effect of mixed traffic zones on BRTS in thesession ‘Transit Quality and Performance’. How the travel times of
BRTS are affected by the intersections were discussed in thepresentation. Also, a few suggestions on how this work can be usefulfor making policy and improving the BRT were given by the session
chairs.

Dr. Tsuboi’s poster session

Dr. Digvijay’s presentation

Prof. Fukuda’s presentation

Anand’s presentation

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4International workshop on Internet of Autonomous Vehicles (INAVEC)
with VTC-2019
By Bhaskar AnandI am working for traffic sensing using LiDAR in M2SMART project along with Mr.
Vivek Barsaiyan. We are working with Dr. P Rajalakshmi. I presented a paper basedon our work related to LiDAR point cloud compression and transmission in VehicularTechnology Conference (VTC-2019 spring), held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 28th
April-1st May, 2019. The paper was presented in 1st International Workshop onInternet of Autonomous Vehicles (INAVEC) held with VTC-2019. The title of the paperis “Real Time LiDAR Point Cloud Compression and Transmission for Intelligent
Transportation System”. In this paper, a real-time Point cloud transmission over Wi-Fi
is suggested. Also, in order to avoid the transmission of huge data, an Octree-based
Point cloud Compression technique is used. It was a great learning experience to be apart of this conference as researchers from across the globe came to present theirwork related to autonomous vehicular technologies.

Sakura Science Program in Nagoya
by Midori Ito
SAKURA SCIENCE High School Program (SSHP) invites excellent high school students and supervisors from mainly from
Asian countries to Japan for a week, and they participate in the exchange programs specially coordinated by JST. The
purpose of the program is to make contributions to the development of global science and technology by supporting theexcellent talents overseas whom universities/research institutions and businesses in Japan desire by enhancing high school
students’ interest in science and technology of Japan when they visit Japan. On May 22, the group of students (42 India, 30
Philippines, 10 Mongolia, 10 Laos, and 10 Cambodia) of this year’s program visited Nagoya Electric Works. Dr. Tsuboi gavethem lecture of SATREPS project students enjoyed our factory tour.

Dr. Tsuboi

Explaining on Mobile VMS

In front of VMS showing SSHP logo

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