• Traffic Engineering
• Road Safety
• Level of Service
• Transportation Planning

 SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Dr. Suprava Jena was born in Cuttack, Odisha, and completed her Higher Secondary Education from SVM Autonomous College, Jagatsinghpur in  the year 2009. She has received her Bachelor of Technology degree in Civil Engineering from Orissa Engineering College, Bhubaneswar in the year 2013, and also acquired her Ph. D. degree in the area “Performance assessment of urban street facilities addressing improvement issues of automobile mode” from National Institute of Technology Rourkela in the year 2018.  At present, She is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, India. She has three years of teaching and research experience in Civil Engineering. Her area of interest is Traffic Engineering, Road Safety, Road users’ behavior and Transportation system planning etc. Prior to joining NIT Silchar, She was working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at MITS, AP  for one year. She has published 28 research articles in different International Journals and conferences. She has guided 18 PG students and now She has been the supervisor to 04 PhD scholars [03 Main Supervisor; 01 Co-supervisor] and 2 PG students. Currently She is working on the areas of Traffic Safety Assessment and Promotion of Public Transportation system..

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ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY

• Faculty Coordinator For UG NBA, Dept. of CE (Jan,2024-till now)
• Departmental Coordinator for Spoken Tutorial (Sep,2019-till now)
• CTO, NCC, NITS (Sep,2024-till now)
• Coordinator of Departmental women welfare committee, CE (Jan,2024-till now)
• Member of DPPC for M.Tech. students, Dept. of CE (Jan,2024-till now)
• Faculty Coordinator For PG NBA (Transportation specialization) (Oct,2020-Oct, 2022)
• Member of DUPC for B.Tech. students, Dept. of CE (Nov,2020-Nov,2022)
• Coordinator of Gyansagar (Mar,2021-Sep,2023)
• Asso. Warden GH-1 (Jan,2021-Mar,2022)

PUBLICATIONS

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

1. Lyngdoh, G.K. and Jena, A. (2024). A Novel Approach for Safety Assessment at Unsignalized Intersections: Integrating Spatial Metrics into Post-Encroachment Time Analysis under Heterogeneous Traffic Conditions. Traffic Injury Prevention. DOI:10.1080/15389588.2024.2416485.

2. 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.

3. Kamalnath, M. and Jena, S. (2024). “Performance evaluation of Queue Jump Lane using microsimulation in VISSIM.” Advances in Transportation Studies. 63.

4. Dutta, M., Jena, S., Korat, B., Bhandari, A., and Lyngdoh, G. K. (2024). “Anticipated buffer time–An evasive surrogate safety indicator for risk assessment of unsignalized intersections under heterogeneous traffic and aggressive driving conditions”. Accident Analysis & Prevention 208, 107796. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2024.107796.

5. Advani, N., Danak, H., Dutta, M. and Jena, S. (2024). “Spherical Cap Studs: A novel speed bump alternative to reduce discomfort with effective speed reduction”. Traffic Injusry Prevention, 25 (2), 228-236.

6. Lalit Swami, Mokaddes Ali Ahmed, Suprava Jena. (2023) “Understanding ground access dynamics at Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, Guwahati: a case study analysis”. Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, Vol. 8:333. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s41062-023-01301-8.

7. Hasain, N. M., Ahmed, M. A., Jena, S. and Khan, H. R. (2023). “Comparison of different calibration methods in modelling the unsignalized intersection using VISSIM with vehicular flow as the fitness measure”, Advances in Transportation Studies, 60:17-32.

8. Vivek, A. K., Mohapatra, S. S., and Jena, S. (2022). “Evaluation of user perception to define level of service criteria of rail road grade crossing: An exploratory statistical approach”, Transport Policy, 122(5):64-76, Elsevier; DOI:10.1016/j.tranpol.2022.04.013.

9. Kamalnath, M., Dutta, M. and Jena, S. (2022) “Studying Aggressive Clearing Behavior of Drivers at Uncontrolled Intersections under Mixed Traffic Conditions”, Journal of The Institute of Engineers (India): Series -A, 103(2022):639–645, Springer; DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s40030-022-00634-4.

10. Jena, S., Patro, S., Dutta, M., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2020). “Assessment of Service Quality at Unsignalized Intersections using Traffic Simulation and Computational Intelligence.” Transportation Letters YTRL, 14(4):365-377  DOI: 10.1080/19427867.2020.1868179.

11. Kar, M., Jena, S., Chakraborty, A., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2020). “Modelling Service Quality Offered by Signalized Intersections from Automobile Users’ Perspective in Urban Indian Context.” Transportation Research Procedia, 48: 904-922. DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2020.08.109.

12. Jena, S., Pradhan, D. K., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2019). “Modelling Automobile Users’ Response Pattern in Defining Urban Street Level of Service.” Transport, VGTU, Taylor and Francis, 34(3): 287-299. DOI: 10.3846/transport.2019.9405.

13. Jena, S., Chakraborty, A., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2018). “Performance assessment of urban streets addressing improvement issues for automobile mode of transport.” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2672(45): 232-241. DOI: 10.1177/0361198118782761.

14. Jena, S., Atmakuri, P., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2017). “Evaluating Service Criteria of Urban Streets in Developing Countries based on Road Users’ Perception.” Transportation in Developing Economies, Springer. 4. DOI: 10.1007/s40890-017-0055-8.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

1. Deb, M., Kamalnath, M., Majumder S. A., and Jena, S. (2024). “Modelling overtaking manoeuvre of motorized two wheelers on urban undivided roads”. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1326 DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/1326/1/012106.

2. Deb, M., Jena, S., & Dutta, M. (2021). “Modelling and Exploring the Impacts of E-Grocery Shopping on Trip Generation in India.” PREPARE@u® | IEI Conferences. https://doi.org/10.36375/prepare_u.iei.a126.

3. Kamalnath, M., Dutta, M. and Jena, S. (2021). “Studying Aggressive Clearing Behavior of Drivers at Uncontrolled Intersections under Mixed Traffic Conditions” PREPARE@u® | IEI Conferences. DOI:https://doi.org/10.36375/prepare_u.iei.a125.

4. Dutta, M., Matade, R. C., and Jena, S. (2021). “Comparison of Time-to-Collision and Yaw Rate as Conflict Indicators in Less Organized Traffic Conditions.” Research Symposium of the Urban Mobility India Conference, Kochi, India.

5. Jena, S., Chakraborty, A., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2018). “Performance assessment of urban streets addressing improvement issues for automobile mode of transport.” 97th TRB Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.

6. Jena, S., Kar, M., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2019). “Investigating service performance of signalized intersections operating under mixed traffic condition.” 98th TRB Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.

7. Jena, S., Chakraborty, A., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2017). “Determining urban street Levels of service in developing cities.” 4th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India, IIT Bombay, India.

8. Jena, S., Dholawala, H., Panda, M., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2017). “Assessment of induced fuzziness in passenger s perspective of transit service quality.” 4th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India, IIT Bombay, India.

9. Jena, S., Atmakuri, P., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2016). “Evaluating Service Criteria of Urban Streets in Developing Countries based on Road Users’ Perception.” 12th Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries, IIT Bombay, India.

10. Jena, S., Beura, S. K., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2016). “Tangible Service Level Assessment of Urban Streets using Point System.” 12th Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries, IIT Bombay, India.

11. Jena, S., Priyanka, A., Beura, S. K., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2015). “Application of Fuzzy Inference System to Estimate LOS Criteria of Urban Road Segment.” International Conference on Communication, Control, Instrumentation & Computational Technology, R. L. Jalappa Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India.

12. Kar, M., Jena, S., Chakrabarty, A., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2019). “Modelling Service Quality Offered by Signalized Intersections from Automobile Users’ Perspective.” World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), Mumbai, India.

13. Chakraborty, A., Jena, S., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2017). “Neural Network Approach to Determine LOS Criteria of Urban Streets for Developing Countries.” Urbanization challenges in emerging economies, ASCE, New Delhi, India.

14. Beura, S. K. Haritha, C., Jena, S., and Bhuyan, P. K. (2015). “Service Quality Assessment of Shared Use Road Segments: A Pedestrian Perspective.” International Conference on Communication, Control, Instrumentation & Computational Technology, R. L. Jalappa Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India.

• PI: “Reducing drivers’ discomfort due to speed bumps without compromising their speed reduction abilities” sponsored by SERB-POWER grant, 2023-2025, Status: Ongoing, Fund: INR 11.1 Lakhs
• Co-PI: ” Design and development of solar photovoltaic powered cane slicing machine” sponsored by DST-SEED, Women Technology Park, 2022-2025, Status: Ongoing, Fund: INR 24.1 Lakhs