Urban Mobility Research in India

Prof. (Dr.) Ashish Verma is Convenor of ‘IISc Sustainable Transportation Lab. (IST Lab.)’. He is Ph.D. from IIT Bombay and is currently serving as Professor of Transportation Systems Engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. Further, he was Visiting Professor at ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, during 2016 and Visiting Fellow at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia, during 2019. Before joining IISc, he has served in IIT Guwahati and Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA). His research interests are in sustainable transportation planning and policy, integrated public transport planning and management, transport and quality of life (QoL), transport and climate change, modelling and optimization of transportation systems, travel behaviour analysis and modelling, pedestrian and crowd flow modelling, driver behaviour and road safety, intelligent transportation system (ITS), traffic control and management, etc. He has authored more than 250 research publications, including more than 95 journal publications in the area of sustainable transportation. 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’, published by VDM Publishing House Ltd. He has also been Co-Editor of Conference Proceedings of WCTR-2016, 5th CTRG, RATE-2018, and 6th CTRG (currently under processing), published by leading publishers, Elsevier and Springer. He is Former Editor of journal ‘Transport Policy’, Elsevier; Associate Editor of ‘Urban Rail Transit’, Springer, and ‘Journal of Modern Mobility Systems (JMMS)’, Mason Publishing. He is Founding and Immediate Past President of the society Transportation Research Group of India (TRG). He is presently serving as Steering and Scientific Committee Member of World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) based on University of Leeds, UK. He has also been recently elected as Hony. Secretary of Institute of Urban Transport (India).