This book (in three volumes) comprises the proceedings of the Fifth Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG2019) focusing on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of transportation of people and freight. The contents of the book include characterization of conventional and innovative pavement materials, operational effects of road geometry, user impact of multimodal transport projects, spatial analysis of travel patterns, socio-economic impacts of transport projects, analysis of transportation policy and planning for safety and security, technology-enabled models of mobility services, etc. This book will be beneficial to researchers, educators, practitioners and policymakers alike.
Dr. Dharamveer Singh is an Associate Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Dr. Singh graduated from MBM Engineering College Jodhpur, Rajasthan in 2000. He completed his M.Tech in Transportation Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 2004. Dr. Singh holds a Ph.D from University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA. Dr. Singh actively works in areas of asphalt binder rheology, stabilized pavement layers, recycling of pavements, performance of asphalt mixes, and material and test protocol development. He has published over 100 referred journal papers. Dr. Singh is an active member of several committee of Indian Roads Congress. Dr. Singh has been Active Reviewer of several leading national and international journals, also he is serving as an editorial board member of leading journals.
Dr. Lelitha Vanajakshi is Professor in the Transportation Division of the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Madras. She holds a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, USA. Her teaching and research interests are in the general area of transportation systems with emphasis on traffic flow modelling, traffic operations, and intelligent transportation systems. She has published more than 70 journal publications and more than 100 conference papers. She serves in various editorial boards and is Member of various national and international societies. She has been involved in 15 research projects and has graduated more than 10 M.S./Ph.D. scholars.
Dr. Ashish Verma is currently Professor of Transportation Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering and Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation, and Urban Planning (CiSTUP) and Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems (RBCCPS) at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. Before joining IISc, he served at IIT Guwahati, and Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority. His research interests are in sustainable transportation planning, public transport planning and management, modeling and optimization of transportation systems, travel behavior, driver behavior and road safety, intelligent transportation system (ITS), traffic management. etc. He has authored more than 120 research publications in the area of sustainable transportation and road safety. He is Associate Editor of Springer journal Urban Rail Transit. He is Current and Founding President of Transportation Research Group of India.
Dr. Animesh Das is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur. Dr. Das’s area of expertise is pavement material characterization, analysis, design, and evaluation. He is interested in both theoretical as well as experimental studies. He has worked on problems related to characterization of asphalt mix and aggregates, asphalt recycling, asphalt micromechanics, microstructure and image analysis of asphaltic material, pavement design optimization, pavement surface characterization etc. He has published several papers in various journals and conference proceedings of repute.
