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Dr. B. K. Bhavathrathan
Associate Professor
Civil Engineering
04923-226-475
Research Area: Transportation Systems
  • Biosketch

    Experience

    Associate Professor July 2023 - Present

    IIT Palakkad

    Assistant Professor April 2018 - June 2023

    IIT Palakkad

    Postdoctoral Associate November 2016 - March 2018

    Future Urban Mobility Group, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore
    Project: SimMobility Freight

    Education

    PhD in Transportation Systems Engineering, 2011 - 2016

    IIT Bombay

    Thesis: Critical State of Multiple Simultaneous Disruptions on Urban Road Networks

    M. Tech. in Transportation Systems Engineering, 2009 - 2011

    IIT Guwahati

    B. Tech. in Civil Engineering, 2003 - 2007

    Government Engineering College, Thrissur

  • Research

    Road Networks; Road Safety; Traffic Flow; Network Disruption

  • Teaching

    Recent Courses:

    CE5519 Analysis and Design of Transportation Networks

    CE 3010 Transportation Engineering

    CE 3020 Traffic Engineering

    CE 5516 Optimization Techniques in Engineering

  • Research Group

    Group Photo May 22

    Current Affiliates

    Shilpa
    Shilpa R. Nair

    Research Scholar since Jul '18
    Working on crash and geometry analysis at regional road network scales.
    Previous Degree: M. Tech., NIT Surathkal

     

    Nitheesh
    Nitheesh K.
    Research Scholar since Jan '20
    Working on road-network preparedness to post-disaster transport operations.
    Previous Degree: M. Tech., NIT Calicut

    Anish
    B. Anish Kini
    External Research Scholar since Jan '20
    Working on demand estimation on regional road networks.
    Current Position: Scientist, KSCSTE-NATPAC
    Previous Degree: M. Tech., IIT Bombay

    Sukhanya
    Sukhanya K.
    Research Scholar since Jul '21
    Working on location-specific safety measures for large road networks.
    Previous Degree: M. Tech., NIT Calicut

    Vishwas

     

     

     

     

    Vishwas G. S.
    Research Scholar since Jul '21
    Working on road networks.
    Previous Degree: M. Tech., BMS College of Engg., Bangalore

    Ebin

     

     

     

     

    Ebin Sam
    External Research Scholar since Jul '21
    Working on safety on road networks.
    Current Position: Scientist, KSCSTE-NATPAC
    Previous Degree: M. Tech., NIT Surathkal

    Abhiram Manoj

     

     



     

    Abhiram Manoj
    Civil Engg. B. Tech. Project 2021-'22
    Working on crash prediction using road network parameters.

    Salma

     

     


     

    Salma Shepheek
    Civil Engg. B. Tech. Project 2021-'22
    Working on effect of road network inconsistencies on crashes.

     

    Past Affiliates

    Darshana
    Darshana Othayoth
    Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-'20
    Worked on user perceptions of traffic's levels of service and safety.
    Current Position: Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
    Previous Degree: Ph. D., IIT Bombay

     

    Teena
    Teena Roy
    Civil Engg. B. Tech. Project 2020-'21
    Worked on Public perceptions of motorised two-wheeler safety

     

    Raghav
    Raghav Tiwari
    Civil Engg. B. Tech. Project 2020-'21
    Worked on OD matrix estimation for regional road networks from multiple urban OD matrices

    rajiv
    Rajiv Ranjan
    Junior Research Fellow
    Previous Degree: M. Tech., IIT Madras

  • Additional Information
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  • Publications
    A risk minimization based approach for planning evacuation trip distribution
    K. Nitheesh, B.K. Bhavathrathan, M. Manoj, T.M. Rahul
    International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2023)
    Consumer responses towards essential purchases during COVID-19 pan-India lockdown
    GR Patil, R Dhore, BK Bhavathrathan, DS Pawar, P Sahu, A Mulani
    Research in Transportation Business & Management In Press 100768 (2022)
    Hybrid segmentation approach to identify crash susceptible locations in large road networks
    Shilpa R. Nair, B. K. Bhavathrathan
    Safety Science 145 105515 (2022)
    SimMobility Freight: An Agent-Based Urban Freight Simulator for Evaluating Logistics Solutions
    T Sakai, AR Alho, BK Bhavathrathan, GD Chiara, R Gopalakrishnan, P Jing, T Hyodo, L Cheah, M Ben-Akiva
    Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 141 102017 (2020)
    Perceived level of service at signalized intersections under heterogeneous traffic conditions
    D Othayoth, KVK Rao, BK Bhavathrathan
    Transportmetrica A: Transport Science 16 (3) 1294 - 1304 (2020)
    Identifying critical links on disruption-prone road networks: an approach that obviates scenario enumeration
    Gopal Patil, B. K. Bhavathrathan
    Current Science 118 (3) 428 - 438 (2020)
    Modeling Freight Generation, Commodity Contracts, and Shipments for SimMobility Freight – A Disaggregate Agent-Based Urban Freight Simulator
    Sakai, Bhavathrathan, Alho, Hyodo, Ben-Akiva
    98th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board (2019)
    Commodity flow estimation for a metropolitan scale freight modeling system: supplier selection considering distribution channel using an error component logit mixture model
    Sakai, Bhavathrathan, Alho, Hyodo, Ben-Akiva
    Transportation (2018)
    An algorithm to compute urban road network resilience
    Bhavathrathan, B.K.; Patil, G.R.
    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board Accepted for publication (2018)
    A multi-scale agent-based modelling framework for urban freight distribution
    André Alho, BK Bhavathrathan, Monique Stinson, Raja Gopalakrishnan, Diem-Trinh Le, Moshe Ben-Akiva
    Transportation Research Procedia 27 188 -196 (2017)
    Red Light Running at Heterogeneous Saturated Intersections in Mumbai, India: On the Existence of Two Regimes and Causal Factors
    Bhosale, M.; Bhavathrathan, B.K.; Patil G.R.
    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2619 75 - 84 (2017)
    Effect of traffic demand variation on road network resilience
    Patil, G.R.; Bhavathrathan, B.K.
    Advances in Complex Systems 19 (01n02) 1650003 (2016)
    Capacity uncertainty on urban road networks: A critical state and its applicability in resilience quantification
    Bhavathrathan, B.K.; Patil, G.R.
    Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 54 108 - 118 (2015)
    Quantifying resilience using a unique critical cost on road networks subject to recurring capacity disruptions
    Bhavathrathan, B.K.; Patil, G.R.
    Transportmetrica A: Transport Science 11 (9) 836 - 855 (2015)
    Analysis of the effect of two-wheeler lane-sharing behavior on macroscopic traffic flow modeling
    Chunchu, Mallikarjuna; Bhavathrathan, B.K.
    Transport 29 (2) 146 - 153 (2014)
    Analysis of worst case stochastic link capacity degradation to aid assessment of transportation network reliability
    BK Bhavathrathan, GR Patil
    Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 104 507-515 (2013)
    Evolution of macroscopic models for modeling the heterogeneous traffic: An Indian perspective
    Bhavathrathan, B.K.; Chunchu, Mallikarjuna
    Transportation Letters 4 (1) 29 - 39 (2012)

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