Dr. Debasis Basu Associate Professor
School of Infrastructure

Research Interests

      Application Area
            Non-Motorised Transport;
            Public Transport ;
            Shared Mobility & E-Mobility;
            Transport Planning;
            Studies in Traffic Flow;
            DataScience/ML approaches in Demand Estimation
  
 

Contact Details

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  • dbasu@iitbbs.ac.in

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Education

 Degree Discipline Year School
  Ph.D. Civil Engg. (Transp. Engg.) IIT Kharagpur
  M.Tech Transp. Sys. Engg. IIT Bombay
  BE Civil Engg. Bengal Engg. College (DU), Shibpore
 

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

 

Teaching

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

Projects

 
 

Recent Publications (International Journals)

1Sharma, S., Rastogi, R. and Basu, D. Evaluation Aspects of Active Transport System: A Review and Way Forward in the context of Developing Countries, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Taylor & Francis [Accepted in 2025]
2Sharma, 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
3Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering Vol. 271, 2023. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India, CTRG 21 Vol. 1, Edited by Devi, L., Das, A., Sahu, P.K. and Basu, D. Springer Nature Singapore, Singapore. Book ID 520179_1_En, DOI: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-3505-3.
4Sharma, S., 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.
5Roy, 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 Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9636-7_7
 

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 Progress in the domain of Non-motorised Transport  & EV Mobility

  
Motivated Ph.D candidates interested to work in the application domain of "Shared Mobility" OR "EV Mobility" OR "Bi-Cycle Mobility" may send their CV and apply for PhD position. Analytical Background is usually preferred.
    
 
 

Professional Experience

Admin. Duty & Responsibility

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

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

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