Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India / Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering Bd.220 (PDF)

alsothe Former Head one of the vibrant divisions of CSIR-CRRI namely, Traf¿c Engineering and Safety (TES) Division. He completed his Ph.D. in Transportation Systems Engineering at IIT, Bombay, in 1995. Dr. Murugan had two stints of Post-Doctoral Research (PDR) in Belgium and Australia in the ¿elds of his specialization i.e. traf¿c and transportation engineering. He was instrumental in the formulation/revision of 18 publications of Indian Road Congress (IRC) during the last 15 years. Dr. Murugan is serving as Project Coordinator for the prestigious Project: "iRASTE (Intelligent Solutions for Road Safety through Technology and Engineering) in Nagpur" being executed by CSIR-CRRI in collaboration with International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, INAI (Applied Research Center for AI at IIIT-Hyderabad), M/s. Intel India as well as M/s. Mahindra and Mahindra under the initiative of Sh. Nitin Gadkari Ji aimed at the reduction of 50% fatalities in Nagpur city. The maiden version of the Indian Highway Capacity Manual (Indo-HCM) was successfully completed by Dr. Murugan in collaboration with seven academic institutes in the country by assuming the role of Champion in 2018 which is extensively referred by the research fraternity, academicians and practicing engineers. Further, he has provided sustainable solutions for more than 160 road related projects covering the subject areas of road safety, road safety audit, public transport evaluation, and estimation of road user costs addressing the issues in the inter-urban and urban roads including expressways. Dr. Murugan was bestowed with the Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Award in 2008 from IRC and the Outstanding Scientist Medal by the Construction Industry Development Council (CIDC) in 2015. Dr. Murugan is presently serving as the Co-convener of the "Intelligent Transport System" i.e. G-7 Committee of IRC.


Dr. Animesh Das is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur. Dr. Das's area of expertise is pavement material characterization, analysis, design, and evaluation. He is interested in both theoretical as well as experimental studies. He has worked on problems related to characterization of asphalt mix and aggregates, asphalt recycling, asphalt micromechanics, microstructure and image analysis of asphaltic material, pavement design optimization, pavement surface characterization etc. He has published several papers in various journals and conference proceedings of repute.