Autor: Debasis Basu

​ Dr. Lelitha Devi is a Professor in the Transportation Division of the Department of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and holds a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, USA. Her teaching and research interests are in the general area of transportation systems with emphasis on traffic flow modelling, traffic operations, and Intelligent Transportation systems. She has published around 90 referreed journal papers and more than 100 conference papers. She serves in various editorial boards and is a member of various national and international societies. She has been involved in 15 research projects and has graduated more than 10 MS/Ph.D. scholars. 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.