Infrastructure and Built Environment for Sustainable and Resilient Societies

This book presents the select proceedings of the Annual Conference on "Infrastructure and Built Environment: Towards Sustainable and Resilient Societies" (IBSR 2023). It covers the latest research and technologies in the area of smart and sustainable built environment for inclusive societies. Various topics covered in this volume are multimodal urban transport, spatial informatics in urban planning, urban morphology, sustainable transport infrastructure development and many more. This book will be useful for researchers and professionals working in the fields of urban mobility, affordable housing, road infrastructure, and spatial informatics.

Dr. Arkopal Kishore Goswami is an Associate Professor, and currently the Chairperson of the Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management, IIT Kharagpur. He received his PhD from University of Virginia in Civil Engineering in the year 2008. His research interests are in planning & design of sustainable urban transport infrastructure in the context of organic urban forms and mixed traffic environment. He has collaborated with researchers from around the globe, including Japan, Germany, UK, Colombia, and USA. He has been a recepient of multiple sponsored research grants from national and international agencies. He is a member of the IRC committee on Urban Roads (H-8), and an Executive Committee Board Member of the Transportation Research Group (TRG), India. He mentors the Multimodal Urban Sustainable Transportation (MUST) laboratory in IIT Kharagpur, the research outputs from which have been published in international peer reviewed journals of repute. Dr. Goswami has been conferred with the Faculty Excellence Award 2022 by IIT Kharagpur.

Dr. Bharath H. Aithal is a Faculty (Assistant Professor) at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He Obtained his B.E from Bangalore university in 2009 and Doctoral degree from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 2015. He has published 55 Journal papers, 14 Book chapters, 120 Conference proceedings, and 40 Technical reports and authored three books. He has won several awards such as Schlich Prize, IEI Young engineer award and Indian National Geospatial award to name a few. Currently he is an Academic editor in Plos climate. 

Dr. Swati Maitra is currently an Assistant Professor in Ranbir & Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management, IIT Kharagpur. She obtained her PhD from IIT Kharagpur, M.Tech. from IIT Bombay and B.E. from Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur (presently Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur) in Civil Engineering. Dr. Maitra is a researcher in the field of sustainable infrastructure development with major focus on transport infrastructure, concrete pavement and overlay analysis, design and performance evaluation, road safety, retrofitting and rehabilitation of existing built infrastructure and sustainable concrete and cementitious materials for infrastructure development. Dr. Maitra has several research publications in book chapters, International and National Journals and Conferences. She has received several awards like DAAD Fellowship by the German Academic Exchange Service, Bihar PWD Medal by the Indian Roads Congress (IRC), and best research paper awards for Enlightening Asia-specific topics and pavement research in International Conferences. Dr. Maitra has organized several Short-term courses and training programs and is an active member of Indian Roads Congress involving in developing/revising IRC guidelines. Dr. Maitra is actively involved in several research and industry projects as Principal Investigator. Her research is aimed to provide practical implications in real field so as to connect research into practice. 

Dr. Ankhi Banerjee is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Ranbir & Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Her research interests include Housing Affordability, Livability and Urban Infrastructure, Urban Design, Urban Morphology and Sustainable Tourism. Dr. Banerjee has published research findings through publications in reputed peer reviewed journals, International and national conferences, and book chapters.  Dr. Banerjee has been closely associated with several projects based on Smart Urban Regeneration, Development of Index as a measure of Happiness in new Town, Kolkata and Improvement of Corridor based Traffic Mobility and has also collaborated with researchers from UK and US. She was Principal Investigator of a research project which aimed at developing an Integrated Housing and Transportation Model under the Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC). Dr. Ankhi Banerjee has completed her graduation in Architecture and post-graduation in Urban Design from Jadavpur University. Dr. Banerjee has previously taught in the Department of Planning and Architecture, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela.