Recent Trends in Transportation Infrastructure, Volume 2
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This book presents the select proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Conception to Execution (TIPCE 2022) at IIT Roorkee and emphasizes the understanding of transportation infrastructure projects being conceptualized, designed, and executed so as to bring the desired development in the focused area. It comprises case studies from the transportation sector, construction industries, consulting agencies, and research and academic institutions. These studies present the bottlenecks experienced during the implementation of the projects, from their conceptualization to their execution and the corrective measures that were incorporated to finish the work. The book will be a valuable reference for beginners, researchers, and professionals interested in construction planning and technology, infrastructure engineering, highway engineering, traffic and transportation planning and systems.
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Dr. Amit Agarwal is currently an Assistant Professor at IIT Roorkee. Before joining IIT Roorkee, he has worked at Robert Bosch, Singapore as a senior research scientist. He got his Ph.D. from TU Berlin, Germany, in 2017 and M Tech from IIT Delhi, in 2012 and B. Tech from MNIT Jaipur in 2009. His research interests include ITS, Agent-Based Simulation, Crowdsourced Data, Sustainable Transport, Air Pollution Exposure, Travel Demand Modeling. He is working on many research and consultancy projects funded by IAHE (MoRTH), SERB, iHub DivyaSampark (TIH) Roorkee, UKMRC, etc. His team was a winner in the Smart Move Innovative Urban Mobility Challenge. He has received Outstanding Young Faculty Award, DAAD Scholarship for Master Project, PhD and NBCC Award of Excellence.
Dr. S. Velmurugan is currently a Chief Scientist at CSIR-Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), New Delhi. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, in 1995. He is an expert in the area of traffic engineering, transportation engineering, road safety, transport economics, and transport environment.
Dr. Akhilesh Kumar Maurya is an accomplished civil engineering Professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, with PhD from IIT Kanpur and MTech in CAD from IIT Roorkee. His research interests encompass traffic flow modeling, road safety audit, accident analysis, and traffic data collection, reflected in 100+ papers published in international journals and conferences. He has received the DAAD fellowship and is a certified "Road Safety Auditor" by the International Road Federation (India) and Australian Road Research Board. Maurya is the President of "Transportation Research Group of India (TRG)", a member of WCTRS, and a life member of "Indian Roads Congress."