Dr. Debasis Basu Associate Professor
School of Infrastructure

Research Interests

On-going Research
           Urban & Regional Transport Planning 
          Non-Motorised Transport & its Infrastructure [Walk / BiCycle]
          Policy on EV-Mobility
 
             
            
           
  
 

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Education

 Degree Discipline Year School
  Ph.D. Transp. Engg. IIT Kharagpur
  M.Tech Transp. Sys. Engg. IIT Bombay
  B.E Civil Engg. Bengal Engg. College (DU), currently known as IIEST Shibpur
 

Biosketch

Dr.Basu is currently a faculty member at School of Infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar. Prior to joining at IIT as Assistant Professor, 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 System, which is primarily encompassing varied types & nature of modelling techniques, & data-science approaches. He is also having an avid inclination towards Travel Behaviour Analysis, Choice Modelling,  analysis of large datasets in RDBMS environment, application of MCDM, Transport Economics.etc.  He was actively involved in various projects of the MoE - “Future of Cities”, IMPRINT India Initiative. 

 

Teaching

Urban Transport Planning
Infrastructure Planning and Management
Economic Evaluation of Transportation System
Transportation Engineering
Transportation Engg. Lab
Project Seminar
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Projects

 
 

Recent Publications (International Journals)

1Sharma, Sakshi., Rastogi, R. and Basu, D. 2025. Evaluation Aspects of Active Transport System: A Review and Way Forward in the context of Developing Countries, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Taylor & Francis Group [ Pub. Online https://doi.org/10.1080/15568318.2025.2500559]
2Sharma, Sakshi., Rastogi, R. and Basu, D. 2025 Determination of Attribute Weights for Evaluation of Active Transport Systems in Developing Countries, Journal of Urban Planning and Development, Vol. 151 Issue 2 ASCE https://doi.org/10.1061/JUPDDM.UPENG-5261
3Sharma, Sakshi., Rastogi, R. and Basu, D. 2023. Importance Satisfaction Analysis of Key Factors related to Bicycle Infrastructure- Experiences from an Urban area- PID#345. 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

Motivated candidates [M.Tech / M.Arch&Plan ]  interested to work in the domain of Transport Planning & Policy may  apply for Ph.D position.
    
 
 

Professional Experience

Admin. Duty & Responsibility

 
PIC, Enterprise Resource Planning of the Institute May, 2025 continued.......


PIC, Examinations of the Institute January, 2022 TO January, 2025

 
UG, Coordinator of the SIF  January, 2024 TO January, 2026

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