Education
| Degree |
Discipline |
Year |
School |
|
Ph.D. |
Civil Engg. ( in Transportation Engg.) |
2008 |
IIT Kharagpur |
|
MTech |
Transportation Engg. |
|
IIT Bombay |
|
BE |
Civil Engg. |
|
Bengal Engineering College (Deemed University), Shibpore Howrah |
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 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 Analysis, Choice Modelling, Modelling using Large datasets in RDBMS environment, Transport Economics, 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
Urban Transport
Transportation Engineering
Infrastructure Planning and Management
Economic Evaluation of Transportation System
Transportation Engg. Lab
Project Seminar
Recent Publications (International Journals)
1Sharma, S., 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
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
02 in Progress
Domain Area: Non-motorised Transport & EV Mobility
Motivated students interested to work in the application domain area of "Railway" OR "Shared Mobility" OR "EV Mobility" may apply for PhD Position. A strong Analytical Background is usually preferred.
Admin. Duty & Responsibility
PIC, Examinations of the Institute January, 2022 TO January, 2025
UG, Coordinator of the SIF January, 2024 TO January, 2026
