Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (eBook)

This book comprises the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG2021) focusing on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of transportation of people and freight. The contents of the volume include recent advancements in the pavements and materials study like Fatigue damage, Moisture damage prediction, Quantification of Aging of Polymer, and Effect of short-term aging. It also covers rapidly evolving topics like Road network analysis, Location choice analysis for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), Transit ridership, etc. This book will be beneficial to researchers, educators, practitioners, and policymakers alike.

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.