bhavathrathan

Before joining IIT Palakkad as Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering, Dr. B. K. Bhavathrathan served as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. In the Future Urban Mobility research-group there, he assisted Prof. Moshe Ben-Akiva in developing models for SimMobility- a comprehensive urban transportation simulation platform. He holds a Ph.D. in Transportation Systems Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His thesis – with the guidance of Dr. Gopal R. Patil – identifies the existence and uniqueness of formally-definable critical states on disruption-prone urban road networks. His primary research interests concerns traffic flow on urban road networks, especially pertaining to service deterioration. After graduating in Civil Engineering from Government Engineering College Thrissur, University of Calicut, he had obtained a master’s degree in Transportation Systems Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.