Education
| Degree |
Discipline |
Year |
School |
|
Ph.D. |
Civil Engg. ( in Transportation Engg.) |
2008 |
IIT Kharagpur |
Biosketch
Dr.Basu is currently a faculty member at School of Infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar. Prior to joining at IIT, Dr. Basu worked as Postdoctoral Research Employee at University of California at Davis. Dr. Basu’s core research interest focuses on problem solving approaches relating to evaluation of Transportation OR Traffic Demand, which is primarily encompassing varied types & nature of demand-modelling techniques; and data-science approaches. Dr. Basu is also having an avid inclination towards Travel Behaviour Research, Choice Modelling, Modelling using Large datasets in RDBMS, Economic & Financial Eval. of Transportation related Infrastructure projects and operation of Public Transport. He was actively involved in various projects of the MoE - “Future of Cities”, IMPRINT. He has published numerous technical articles in journals and conference proceedings.
Teaching
Currently Teaching.........
Transportation Engineering
Urban Transport
Transportation Engg. Lab
Project Seminar
Infrastructure Planning and Management
Recent Publications (International Journals)
1Sharma et al. (2024) Determination of Attribute Weights for Evaluation of Active Transport Systems in Developing Countries, Journal of Urban Planning and Development, ASCE (Accepted)
2Roy, S., and Basu, D., 2022. Planning for Suitable Walk-Access Infrastructure Components in Various Classes of Urban Bus Stop Catchment Area. In: Maurya, et al., (Eds) Transportation Research in India, Springer.
Conferences (International)
1Sharma et al. (2023). Importance Satisfaction Analysis of Key Factors related to Bicycle Infrastructure- Experiences from an Urban area- PID345. Proceedings of the 27th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies- Transport and Equity. Place: Hong Kong. Page No. 387- 394
Academic Honors & Awards
- The Technical Article on "Evaluation of Active Transport Systems: A Glance at Recent Studies" authored by Sharma, S., Rastogi, R., and Basu, D. was awarded with the Best Paper under the theme "Sustainable Transportation" at 2nd International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Conception to Execution held between 14th Sep-22nd Sep, 2022 at IIT Roorkee
- Chair, Scientific Committee Transport Planning, Policy, Economics and Project Finance, Conf. of Transportation Res. Group of India, Trichy.
- DST travel support for Participation at Smart Cities Workshop at NCTU, Taiwan
- Post-doctoral Research at Urban Land Use and Transportation [ULTRANS] Center, University of California at Davis
- Best MTech Thesis Award in Transportation Systems Engineering, IIT Bombay
Research Scholar
Looking for Suitable PhD Students interested to work either in
1. Public Transport
2. Non-motorised Transport
3. Traffic Flow and Safety Aspect
4. Mode Choice
