This book comprises select papers presented at the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2018). The book covers cutting-edge methods and applications in the field of traffic control, transportation planning, road maintenance, and highway and pavement engineering. Case studies on traffic safety, pedestrian behavior, and highway maintenance and design are also presented in this book. The contents of this book are useful for researchers and practitioners working in transportation and traffic engineering.
Dr. Srinivas S. Pulugurtha is currently working as Professor & Graduate Program Director of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte). He also directs the Infrastructure, Design, Environment and Sustainability (IDEAS) Center on UNC Charlotte campus. He has experience working in diverse fields of transportation including transportation safety, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), transportation system planning, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications, internet applications, traffic operations, and, artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and operations research applications. During his 24-year tenure as a researcher, Dr. Pulugurtha has led and completed 70 sponsored projects as Principal Investigator or co-Principal Investigator. He has authored/co-authored over 220 publications which include 57 journal papers. Furthermore, he has advised and mentored 13 Ph.D. students, over 50 M.S. students, and several undergraduate students. He was recognized with the UNC Charlotte College of Engineering Graduate Teaching Award in 2010 for his accomplishments as a mentor, adviser and teacher. Dr. Pulugurtha is a registered Civil Engineer in the State of North Carolina.
Dr. Indrajit Ghosh is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. He did his M. S. in transportation engineering also from Wayne State University, and M. E. in highway engineering from the Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology, Shibpur (IIEST, Shibpur). He is academically and professionally active in the areas of traffic flow modelling, driver behaviour, road safety audit and accident analysis, traffic data collection and analysis studies. He has published more than 50 technical papers in international journals and conferences. Dr. Ghosh received the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Michigan Section Education-Scholarship award in the year 2008. He also received the prestigious Thomas C. Rumble Fellowship for exceptional academic performance from the College of Engineering at Wayne State University for the year 2007–2008.
Dr. Sabyasachi Biswas is currently working as Assistant Professor & Faculty adviser of Undergraduate student in the Department of Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur (NIT Jamshedpur), India.
He did his B.E. in Civil Engineering from IIEST Shibpur, and obtained his Masters in Transportation System Engineering from IIT Guwahati in 2012. He completed his Ph.D. (Civil Engineering) from IIT Roorkee in 2017. He has published several technical papers in reputed international and national journals. His research interests include traffic engineering, ITS, traffic planning, traffic modelling, road safety, statistical modelling and analysis. Dr. Biswas has worked as a Project Scientist in DST, Ministry of Science and Technology. In 2015, he was selected for the prestigious IIT Roorkee Heritage Foundation Award for his research contribution. Further, he received “The IIT Roorkee Alumni fund” to participate in the 96th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board 2017, held in Washington D.C., USA.
