Recent Advances in Transportation Systems Engineering and Management: Select Proceedings of Ctsem 2021

Dr. M.V.L.R. Anjaneyulu is currently working as Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut. He is having more than 30 years of teaching, research and consultancy experience in Transportation Engineering. His areas of research interest include urban transportation planning, travel behavior studies, traffic flow analysis and modeling, traffic safety analysis and evaluation and applications of GIS in transportation. He has guided seven Ph.D. works and presently guiding eight Ph.D. scholars. He has guided nearly 160 postgraduate dissertation works. He has published more than 180 research papers in various journals and conferences. He is a recipient of IRC Best Research Paper award in 1998 and 2014. He is the coordinator of the Centre for Transportation Research, a Centre of Excellence set up under FAST scheme, with support from MoE, GoI. He is also coordinator of ‘State Technical Agency’ for implementation of PMGSY schemein northern districts of Kerala under NRIDA, MoRD. He has successfully completed seven research projects sponsored by different agencies. He organised more than 20 training programs for field engineers and engineering faculty.

Dr. Harikrishna M is working as Assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut. He has completed his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from College of Engineering Trivandrum, Kerala University and master’s degree from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University. He completed his doctoral studies from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in the year 2013. He joined NIT Calicut in 2005. His research interests include ‘Travel behavior modeling’; ‘Stated and Revealed Preference Survey planning and design’ and ‘Capacity and Level of Service Estimation of Transport Facilities’. He has published several research papers in international and national journals and conferences. He has guided 16 projects at the undergraduate level and 50 projects at the postgraduate level and is currently guiding four research scholars. He is a team member of the Centre for Transportation Research, a Centre of Excellence set up under FAST scheme, with support from MoE, GoI. He has conducted faculty development programs in the areas of Urban Transport Systems Planning, Traffic Engineering and Advanced Surveying. He is also a member in professional bodies such as the Indian Roads Congress and the Indian Society for Technical Education. He is the Reviewer of journals such as ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems and Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Dr. Shriniwas S. Arkatkar is currently working as ‘Associate Professor’ in the Civil Engineering Department at SVNIT Surat. Recently, he was appointed as ‘Adjunct Professor’ at the Department of Civil Engineering, Ryerson University, Ontario, Canada. Prior to joining SVNIT Surat, he worked in the Department of Civil Engineering at BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan. Presently, he holds more than 15 years of experience in teaching, research, and consultancy with a specialization in different areas of transportation engineering. Before joining BITS, he pursued his Ph.D. research in the Transportation Engineering Division, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras. His research interests are: traffic flow modelling and simulation, Intelligent transportation systems (ITS), public transportation and sustainable transportation, and road safety and simulation. He has guided eight doctoral students and more than fifty postgraduate students on their dissertation topics from his research interests. He has coordinated over 8 major research projects with a budget over Rs. 5 crores. Currently, he is guiding eight doctoral students on different topics of traffic and transportation engineering. He has published over 100 research papers in journals and over 200 papers in national and international conference proceedings. He is currently member of Indian Roads Congress (IRC), Institute of Urban Transport (IUT), and Transportation Research Group of India (TRG). Presently, he is serving as the Vice President, Transportation Research Group India (TRG). He is also serving as Associate Editor for the journals, Transportation letters, The International Journal of Transportation Research (Taylor and Francis), IET Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Wiley Publications and Journal of Advanced Transportation, Hindawi/Wiley Publications.

Dr. A. Veeraragavan is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Madras. He has over four decades of experience in teaching, research and industrial consultancy. Prof. Veeraragavan received the Indian Roads Congress (IRC) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Award for his outstanding contributions in the field of highway engineering, IRC Medals for his best papers,  , IRC Commendation certificates, UGC Career Award, National Award for Promising Engineering College Teacher in India from the Indian Society for Technical Education, Vishwakarma Award under the category―Outstanding Academician/Technologist/ Scientist/Innovator from the Construction Industry Development Council and the Award for Distinguished Services to the Institute from the IIT Madras Alumni Association. Prof. Veeraragavan has published over 100 research papers in national and international journals and over 150 papers in national and international conference proceedings. He has coordinated several major research projects sponsored by the DST, MoRTH, AICTE, NRIDA etc. Currently, he is coordinating (networking with ten academic institutions) two major research projects sponsored by NRIDA on performance evaluation of rural roads constructed with waste plastics in premixed carpet wearing course and performance evaluation of rural roads constructed with cold bituminous mixes in wearing courses. He hasco-authored four books on: Surveying, Highway Engineering (11th edition under print), Highway Materials and Pavement Testing (5th edition) by M/s Nem Chand & Bros. and Pavement Drainage – Theory and Practice, by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, UK. He is an Independent Director in L&T-IDPL Board and also serves as an Independent Director in three SPVs of L&T-IDPL.