Transportation Research: Proceedings of TPMDC 2022: 434 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 434) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9819960894 ISBN 13: 9789819960897

Publisher: Springer, 2023

Synopsis

This book is a collection of selected research papers from the 14th conference of the Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries (TPMDC). It covers the broad area of transportation planning and policy, pavement design and engineering, emerging technologies in transportation, traffic management, operations, and safety, and sustainable mobility in transportation. The book aims to provide deeper understanding of the transportation issues, solutions, and learnings from the implemented solutions. This book will be of best interest for academicians, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners.

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Prof. Dharamveer Singh is an Associate Professor at Department of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay in India. Prof. Singh has been a faculty member at IIT Bombay since 2012. He received BE from MBM Engg. College Jodhpur, M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur, and Ph.D from University of Oklahoma USA.

Prof. Singh’s field of specialization is in Pavement Engineering, focusing on recycling, stabilization, new and innovative technology for road construction, pavement design, and maintenance and preservation of pavements, forensic investigation.

Prof. Singh is closely associated with industry and highway fraternity on various fronts including pavement design, construction, training, and implementation of new technologies.  Prof. Singh is member of IRC committees on pavement design, low volume roads, asset management, and composite pavements. Also, Prof. Singh is associated with Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), technical committee on Bitumen,Tar and Related Products, PCD 06.

Prof. Singh has been conferred with Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Award- 2018" by Indian Roads Congress Nov. 2019. Prof. Singh has published over 100 papers in international journal and conferences.  Prof. Singh is an Associate Editor for International Journal, Innovative Infrastructure solutions, Springer Publisher, and Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology, and International Journal of Road Materials and Pavement Design.

Dr. Avijit Maji is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, India. He received Doctor of Engineering from Morgan State University, USA in 2008; M.Tech. from IIT Kanpur in 2004; and B.E. from Bengal Engineering College (now known as Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology) in 2000. He has more than twenty years of academia and industry experience working for organizations in India and USA. At present, heis the Co-Chair of Performance-Based Approaches and Applications Subcommittee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), USA and Executive Secretary of the Transportation Research Group of India. His area of expertise includes design, operations, and safety of transportation infrastructure. He has published more than eighty technical research papers in journals, edited books, and conferences. For his contribution, Maryland Society of Professional Engineers conferred him with the “Young Engineer of the Year Award” in 2011. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in Maryland, USA and Transportation Professional Certification Board’s certified Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE).

Mr. Omkar Deepak Karmarkar is a senior PhD fellow in Transportation Systems Engineering lab at IIT Bombay. He has completed his Bachelor of Civil Engineering from IIT Bombay. He is a recipient of prestigious Prime Ministers’ Research Fellowship given by the Ministry of Education. His area of research includes urban growth modelling, transportation planning, public transport scheduling, and transport policy.

Mr. Monik Gupta is a PMRF research scholar in Transportation Systems Engineering at IIT Bombay. He has also served as construction manager in the TATA Steel for two years after completing his graduation from IIT Hyderabad in Civil Engineering. During his research at IIT Bombay he is working on analyzing the impact of distracted driving under time pressure driving situation among Motorized Two-Wheeler (MTW) riders.

Prof Nagendra R Velaga is working as a Professor in the Transportation Systems Engineering Group of IIT Bombay. His major areas of interest include Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Human factors in ITS and Transport Accessibility & Mobility. He received his PhD in Transport studies from Loughborough University, UK. Before joining with IIT Bombay, he worked as a research fellowfor 3 years at Research Councils UK (RCUK) digital economy research hub, University of Aberdeen, UK. Dr velaga has about 15 years of experience in industry and academia in India and abroad. He has published more than eighty technical research papers in peer reviewed international journals.

Dr. Solomon Debbarma is an Assistant Professor in the Transportation Systems Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Bombay. Before joining IIT Bombay, Debbarma was an Adjunct Lecturer and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Ingram School of Engineering of Texas State University, San Marcos, USA. He received a Ph.D. and an M. Tech in Civil Engineering from IIT Roorkee. He graduated with a Civil Engineering degree from NIT Agartala. His primary research interests include rigid pavements, sustainable concrete materials (e.g., recycled aggregates, industrial wastes, agricultural wastes), and special concrete for pavement applications. He has more than 20 peer-reviewed publications and was the lead author of 13 of the papers published in peer-reviewed journals. He is a Volunteer Member of the ACI Committee 555 on Recycled Concrete Aggregates and a Young Member of RILEM. Debbarma served as a reviewer for several international peer-reviewed journals. He is a Young Faculty Award recipient awarded by IIT Bombay. In addition, he was the Entrepreneur Lead for the NSF Innovation-Corps project: High-performance Cementitious Materials, funded by the National Science Foundation, USA in 2021.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9819960894
• ISBN 13: 9789819960897
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 879
• Editor: Singh Dharamveer, Maji Avijit, Karmarkar Omkar, Gupta Monik, Velaga Nagendra Rao, Debbarma Solomon