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this, he worked in the Department of Civil Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, India. He has over 10 years of experience in teaching, research, and consultancy in the field of traffic and transportation engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. He completed his bachelors in Civil Engineering in 1999 and masters in the area of Urban Planning in 2001, from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, India. Dr. Arkatkar has published more than 120 research papers in journals and conference proceedings. He has experience in diverse fields of transportation such as traffic flow modelling, traffic safety, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), transportation planning, traffic operations, and traffic simulation applications. He is actively involved as Executive Secretary, Transportation Research Group of India (TRG) and as member of SIGs of WCTRS, Indian Roads Congress (IRC), Governing Council member in the Institute of Urban Transport (IUT), Ministry of Housing & urban Affairs (MoHUA).




Dr. Prasanta Sahu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani at Hyderabad, India. He holds a Ph.D. in Transportation Systems Engineering (TSE) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and Master's in TSE from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. Dr. Sahu is an Adjunct Professor in Price Faculty of Engineering at University of Manitoba, Canada. Dr. Sahu serves as a Handling Editor of Transportation Research Record - The flagship journal of Transportation Research Board, USA. Also, he serves as Guest Editor to Research in Transportation Economics. Dr. Sahu is the Standing Committee Member of AT015-Freight Transportation Planning and Logistics, Transportation Research Board, USA. He has been a pioneering contributor to freight transportation planning and policy in India with numerous high-quality publications aiming to improve the logistic efficiency of goods movement. Dr. Sahu is currently leading an associate research center (ARC) of Center of Excellence on Sustainable Urban Freight Systems (CoE-SUFS) at BITS Pilani. He also focuses on green mobility planning, quality of life, demand management schemes such as congestion pricing and transport emissions. Multiple projects led by Dr. Sahu in these research areas are currently ongoing under the sponsorship of funding schemes such as Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), Government of the United Kingdom and Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), MHRD, Asian Smart Cities Research Innovation Network - La Trobe University Australia, UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), Government of India, Public Works Department, Government of Telangana. Dr. Sahu is a life member of Institute of Urban Transport (IUT) India and Transportation Research Group (TRG) India and Indian Road Congress (IRC). Additionally, he is a visiting faculty to University of Regina, Regina, Canada and Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK.