Brief Biographical Sketch

Dr. Subhadip Biswas is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Silchar. He completed his B.Tech. at Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College in 2012, M.Tech. at IIEST Shibpur in 2014, and Ph.D. at IIT Roorkee in 2018. Before joining NIT Silchar, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Hamirpur from 2018 to 2022. He seeks motivated research scholars to work in the area of traffic engineering and safety.

External Funded Project

Project Title:        Traffic safety assessment at horizontal curvature on hilly highways using lateral indiscipline-based approach.

Sponsor:               Himachal Pradesh Council for Science Technology and Environment (HIMCOSTE)

Tenure:                 2020-2022

Position:               Principal Investigator

Status:                   Completed

Subjects Taught

Transportation Engineering; Introduction to Traffic Engineering; Traffic Safety; Hill Roads

Member of Professional Society

Institute-level Administrative Responsibilities

1. Member, Training & Placement Cell (Tenure: 17/01/23 to present)

2. Member, Exam Cell (Tenure: 31/10/23 to present)

Reviewer of Journals

Journal of Transportation Engineering Part A – Systems

Transportation Research Record

Journal of Advanced Transportation

Journal of Transportation Safety & Security

Transport Reviews

Advances in Transportation Studies

Current Science

Journal of The Institute of Engineers (India): Series A

Publications in Journals

• Barman, S., Goswami, J., Kamran, A. T. and Biswas, S. (2024). “Safe curb parking distance near school-gate ensuring child pedestrians’ safety”. Transactions on Transport Sciences. Vol. 3. DOI: 10.5507/tots.2024.012.
• Deb, M., Deka, R., Biswas, S. and Jena, S. (2024). “Developing B2C freight trip generation model from Courier Express Parcel establishments: A case study of two Indian cities”. European Transport \ Trasporti Europei. Vol. 98. DOI: 10.48295/ET.2024.98.4.
• Debbarma, S. and Biswas, S. (2024). “Mutual Area in Lateral Distribution: An Indicator of Head-on Crash Potential at Horizontal Curves on Hilly Highways”. Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, ASCE, Vol. 150 (7). DOI: 10.1061/JTEPBS.TEENG-8088.
• Pandey, N., Kartikyan, Parti, R. and Biswas, S. (2023). “Estimation of Influence Width and Shy-Away Distance of Parallel Curb Parking: A Theoretical Approach”. Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, Springer, Vol. 8 (86), 1-15. DOI: 10.1007/s41062-023-01053-5.
• Pandey, A. and Biswas, S. (2022). “Assessment of Level of Service on Urban Roads: A Revisit to Past Studies.” Advances in Transportation Studies. Vol. 57, 49-70.
• Pandey, A., Sharna, M. and Biswas, S. (2022). “Concept of Heterogeneity Index for Urban Mixed Traffic.” International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijtst.2022.02.008.
• Bhavna and Biswas, S. (2022). “An ANN-based Framework for Estimating Inconsistency in Lateral Placement of Heterogeneous Traffic.” Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications, Elsevier. Vol. 592. DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2021.126847.
• Saini, H. K. and Biswas, S. (2021). “Estimating Lateral Placement and Lane Indiscipline of Urban Mixed Traffic of Developing Country: An ANN Assisted Approach.” Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 48, 1571-1581. DOI: 10.1139/cjce-2020-0250.
• Pandey, A. and Biswas, S. (2021). “Development of ‘Speed Ratio’ Based Level of Service Criteria on Undivided Urban Streets in Mixed Traffic Context.” Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. Vol 48 (9), 1169-1180. DOI: 10.1139/cjce-2020-0104.
• Sharma, M. and Biswas, S. (2021). “Estimation of Passenger Car Unit on Urban Roads: A Literature Review.” International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, Elsevier. Vol 10, 283-298. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijtst.2020.07.002.
• Thakur, S., Maurya, S., Chandra, S. and Biswas, S. (2021). “Lambert W Based Speed Reduction Model in Presence of Pedestrian Movements: Case Studies on Undivided Streets.” European Transport \ Trasporti Europei. Vol 82. DOI: 10.48295/ET.2021.82.3.
• Biswas, S., Chandra, S. and Ghosh, I. (2021). “Side Friction Parameters and Their Influences on Capacity of Urban Streets.” International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology, Elsevier, Vol 10 (1), 1-19. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijtst.2020.03.007.
• Biswas, S., Chandra, S. and Ghosh, I. (2020). “An Advanced Approach for Estimation of PCU Values on Undivided Urban Roads under Heterogeneous Traffic Conditions.” Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research, Taylor & Francis, Vol: 12(3), 172-181. DOI: 10.1080/19427867.2018.1563268
• Biswas, S., Sharma, A. and Pandey, A. (2019). “Performance evaluation of undivided streets: A clustering-based approach.” Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, Vol 13, 1777-1784. DOI: 10.11175/easts.13.1777.
• Thakur, S. and Biswas, S. (2019). “Assessment of pedestrian-vehicle interaction on urban roads: A critical review.” Archives of Transport, Vol: 51 (9), 49-63. DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0013.6162
• Saha, A., Singh, B. and Biswas, S. (2017). “Effect of Nano-materials on Asphalt Concrete Mixes; A Case Study.” European Transport \ Trasporti Europei, Vol 65, Paper 1.
• Biswas, S., Chandra, S. and Ghosh, I. (2017). “Lambert W Function Based Semi-Analytical Framework for Estimation of Speed and Passenger Car Unit.” Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, Vol 12, 1588-1603. DOI: 10.11175/easts.12.1588.
• Biswas, S., Chandra, S. and Ghosh, I. (2017). “Use of Lambert W Function in Determining Speed for Macroscopic Traffic Flow Models.” European Transport \ Trasporti Europei, Vol 63, Paper 3.
• Biswas, S., Chandra, S. and Ghosh, I. (2017). “Estimation of Vehicular Speed and Passenger Car Equivalent under Mixed Traffic Condition Using Artificial Neural Network.” Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Springer, Vol: 42 (9), 4099 to 4110. DOI: 10.1007/s13369-017-2597-9
• Biswas, S., Chandra, S. and Ghosh, I. (2017). “Effects of On-street Parking in Urban Context: A Critical Review.” Transportation in Developing Economics, Springer, Vol 3: 10. DOI: 10.1007/ s40890-017-0040-2
• Biswas, S., Chakraborty, S., Chandra, S. and Ghosh, I. (2017). “Kriging-based Approach for Estimation of Vehicular Speed and Passenger Car Units on an Urban Arterial.” Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, ASCE, Vol 143 (3). DOI: 10.1061/JTEPBS.0000031
• Biswas, S., Singh, B. and Saha, A. (2016). “Assessment of Level-of-service on Urban Arterials: A Case Study in Kolkata Metropolis.” International Journal for Traffic and Transport Engineering, Vol 6(3), 303-312. DOI: 10.7708/ijtte.2016.6(3).06

 Publications in International Conferences

• Sharma, P., Somavarapu, M.K., Biswas, S. and Pal, J. (2022). “Automative extraction of vehicle’s lateral placement data: An application of image processing.” 26th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong.
• Gayathri, A. and Biswas, S. (2022). “Provision for Speed Bumps: A Data-driven Method”, 4th National Conference On Traffic Technologies 2022, (NCTT 2022), Bhopal, India.
• Somavarapu, M. K., Biswas, S. and Pal, J. (2022). “Image Processing-Based Vehicle Class Identification in Mixed Traffic.” 5th International Conference on Computing and Informatics (ICCI), Cairo, Egypt. DOI: 10.1109/ICCI54321.2022.9756065.
• Bhavna, Saini, H. K. and Biswas, S. (2021). “Modeling Inconsistency in Lateral Placement of Heterogeneous Traffic on Urban Streets using Neural Computing.” 8th International Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management (CTSEM 2021), NIT Calicut, Kozhikode, India.
• Biswas, S., Sharma, A. and Pandey, A. (2019). “Performance evaluation of undivided streets: A clustering-based approach.” 13th International Conference of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS), Colombo, Sri Lanka. DOI: 10.11175/easts.13.1777.
• Biswas, S., Chandra, S. and Ghosh, I. (2017). “Lambert W function based semi-analytical framework for estimation of speed and passenger car unit.” 23rd International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment, University of Rome, Rome, Italy. DOI: 10.2495/UT170411.
• Biswas, S., Maurya, S., Ghosh, I. and Chandra, S. (2016). “Modelling of individual vehicle speed on urban arterials using Artificial Neural Network.” 12th Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries (TPMDC), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.

Book Chapters

• Tanwar, R., Pandey, N., Biswas, S. (2022). “Development of Free-Flow Criteria for Divided Rural Highway: A Case Study”. Recent Advancements in Civil Engineering. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Vol 172. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-4396-5_67.
• Thakur, S., Chaurasiya, N., Gautam, A., Bhavna, and Biswas, S. (2021). “Impact of Pedestrian Movements on Capacity of Undivided Streets: A Case Study”. Advances in Sustainable Construction Materials, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Vol 124, Springer, 77-86. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-33-4590-4_9.

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