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Dr. B. K. Bhavathrathan
Assistant Professor
Civil Engineering
bhavathrathan@iitpkd.ac.in
04923-226-475
Research Area: Transportation Systems
  • Biosketch

    Experience

    Assistant Professor April 2018 - Present

    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
    Description

  • Publications
    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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