Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India CTRG 2021 Volume 1

This book comprises the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG2021) focusing on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of transportation of people and freight. The contents of the volume include recent advancements in the pavements and materials study like Fatigue damage, Moisture damage prediction, Quantification of Aging of Polymer, and Effect of short-term aging. It also covers rapidly evolving topics like Road network analysis, Location choice analysis for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), Transit ridership, etc. This book will be beneficial to researchers, educators, practitioners, and policymakers alike.

Animesh  Das, Ph.D.,  is a  Professor  in  the  Department  of  Civil Engineering at  Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. His area of interest is pavement material characterization, analysis, design and evaluation. His notable works include two books: Principles  of Transportation  Engineering and Analysis of Pavement Structures. He has several publications to his credit. He is a recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship.

Prasanta Kumar Sahu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani at Hyderabad, India. He holds a Ph.D. in Transportation Systems Engineering (TSE) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. Dr. Sahu is an Adjunct Professor in Price Faculty of Engineering at University of Manitoba, Canada. Dr. Sahu has been a pioneering contributor to freight transportation planning and policy in India with numerous high-quality publications aiming to improve the logistic efficiency of goods movement. He is a life member of Institute of Urban Transport (IUT) India and Transportation Research Group (TRG) India and Indian Road Congress (IRC). Additionally, he is a visiting faculty to University of Regina, Regina, Canada and Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK. Dr. Sahu has published more than 50 journal publications and more than 60 conference papers. He has been involved in 10 research projects and has graduated more than 15 MS/Ph.D. scholars.

Debasis Basu is currently a Faculty in Transportation Engineering at School of Infrastructure, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar, India. Prior to this, Dr. Basu was a Post doctoral research fellow at University of California at Davis, USA. He works in the domain of sustainable transport planning, assessment of transport infrastructure, economic evaluation of alternative transport projects, non-motorized transport, etc. Dr. Basu is currently involved in various prestigious research projects like IMPRINT, Future of Cities etc. He has numerous publications in various peer reviewed journals and conferences. He has also acted as reviewer of various international peer-reviewed journals and major conference proceedings.