Overview
- Covers a wide range of topics in the domain of traffic engineering and road safety
- Discusses latest advances in sustainable transportation systems
- Includes selected contributions from experts from academia and industry
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (LNCE, volume 69)
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Conference proceedings info: RATE 2018.
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Table of contents (45 papers)
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Advances in Traffic Engineering
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Transportation Planning
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. S. Velmurugan is working as a Chief Scientist at CSIR - Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), New Delhi and is also the Former Head of the Traffic Engineering and Safety (TES) Division of CSIR-CRRI. He has completed his Ph.D. in Transportation Systems Engineering at IIT, Bombay in March, 1995 and he has also pursued two post-doctoral stints at the University of Antwerp, Belgium and the University of South Australia, Adelaide. He has served in the capacity of Team Leader in the World Bank sponsored projects as well as National Highways Authority of India and various state Public Works Departments (PWD) for the conduct of Road Safety Audits spanning over 4500 kms which include Urban Expressways, National Highways, State Highways, Major District Roads and Urban Roads. He has published more than 100 technical papers in international and national journals and presented several research papers in various scientific forums. He is the recipient of Outstanding Scientist Medal in March, 2015 instituted by the erstwhile Planning Commission, Government of India along with Construction Development Council (CIDC). Presently he is serving as the Co-Convener of Road Design and Safety Committee i.e. H-7 Committee of Indian Roads Congress (IRC). He was instrumental in the formulation / revision of 15 IRC publications during the last 12 years.
Dr. Ashish Verma obtained his Ph.D. from IIT Bombay and is currently serving as Associate Professor of Transportation Engineering at Dept. of Civil Engineering, Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation, and Urban Planning (CiSTUP), and Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems (RBCCPS) at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. He was a Visiting Professor at ITMO University, Saint Petersberg, Russia during 2016. His research interests include sustainable transportation planning, integrated public transport planning and management, modeling and optimization of transportation systems, travel behaviour, driver behaviour and road safety, intelligent transportation system (ITS), traffic management. He has authored more than 120 research publications in the area of sustainable transportation and road safety. He has also authored a book on “Public Transport Planning and Management in Developing Countries” published by CRC Press and another book on "Integrated Public Transportation System – Planning and Modelling”. He is the founding and current President of the society Transportation Research Group of India (TRG). He is presently serving as Vice Chair (Conference) of Scientific Committee, and Steering Committee Member ofWorld Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) based in the University of Leeds, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Recent Advances in Traffic Engineering
Book Subtitle: Select Proceedings of RATE 2018
Editors: Shriniwas S. Arkatkar, S. Velmurugan, Ashish Verma
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3742-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-3741-7Published: 29 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-3744-8Published: 29 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-3742-4Published: 28 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2366-2557
Series E-ISSN: 2366-2565
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 722
Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations, 328 illustrations in colour
Topics: Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Sustainable Development, Transportation