Pedal Powered Vehicles Workshop

pedal-powered: Shreya Gadepalli & Matteo Martignoni lecture

Two free public lectures sharing experiences in developing human-powered transportation projects in India, Indonesia, Africa & North America.






WHEN:
6.30pm Wed 1 Feb,

WHERE:
RMIT City Campus Casey Plaza lecture theatre
building 10, Bowen St, (btwn Latrobe & Franklins Sts, ground floor of white angular building with plenty of bike parking at front.)

WHAT:
Shreya Gadepalli
Rickshaws and Pedicabs: Solutions from the past for the future

Matteo Martignoni
Human Powered Vehicles: international insights

WHO:
Shreya Gadepalli is a Designer and Technical Director with Institute for Transportation & Development Policy based in India. She is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, and has been leading designer on the India cycle rickshaw improvement project. Because the improved design rickshaws are easier to pedal and more attractive to customers, rickshaw pullers - often the poorest of the poor - are able to increase their incomes. In just three years, the number of these cycle rickshaws on Indian streets has reached over 100,000. A similar improvement project is underway in Indonesia on the becak rickshaw.

Matteo Martignoni is a bicycle industry consultant and Vice President of the International Human Powered Vehicle Association based in New York. He is a board-member of the non-government organisation Institute for Transportation & Development Policy, and works with Shreya Gadepalli on transport development projects in India and Indonesia. His extensive human-powered vehicle experience includes building aerodynamic land-speed record vehicles and amphibious vehicles.

posted by Mick @ 11:54 am