Dr.Vasudevan N.

Junior Scientist
Traffic Engineering and Safety Division

Name Dr.Vasudevan N.
Designation Junior Scientist
Division Traffic Engineering and Safety Division
Email ID nvasudev.6200272@kerala.gov.in ; vasudev.narayan0510@gmail.com
Contact Number 8347740118
Contact Address H-3105, 2nd Floor, Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium, Kaloor, Ernakulam-682017, Kerala.
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Research Area/ Research Interests a) Urban and Regional Transportation Systems Planning
b) Traffic management and Road safety
c) Public Transportation Planning
Professional Experience / Career Details
Name of Institute Post Held Duration
National Transportation Planning and Research Centre (NATPAC) Junior Scientist 29-09-2022 to till date(11 months)
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai Post-Doctoral Fellow 30-03-2022 to 26-09-2022 (6 months)
Smart City Thiruvananthapuram Limited Assistant Manager 26-02-2020 to 23-03-2022 (2 years)
Sreepathy Institute of Management and Technology, Palakkad, India Assistant Professor 01-09-2015 to25-11-2015
Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India Teaching Assistant 30-12-2014 to16-05-2015
Educational Qualifications:
Ph.D. Civil (Transportation) Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India, 2015-2020
Thesis: Modeling Habit of Travel Mode Choice in context of Transit in Metropolitan Cities
M.Tech Transportation Engineering and Planning, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India, 2012-2014
B.Tech. Civil Engineering, University of Kerala, Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, 2008-2012
List of Projects involved Research
  • Augmentation of Ridership for Kochi Metro Rail Through Various Transit Supportive Policies
  • Route Rationalisation of KSRTC City Circular Services in Thiruvananthapuram
Need based Projects
  • Feasibility Study of Night Life Project at Thiruvananthapuram
  • Traffic Study and Ridership Estimation for the Proposed Sabari Rail Project
  • Traffic Management Scheme for Flower show Event at Thiruvananthapuram City
  • Crew Scheduling of KSRTC
  • Traffic Management Study Around Civil Station, Kakkanad
  • Traffic Study for the proposed PRT Project atTechnopark-Thiruvananthapuram
Sponsored Projects
Journal Papers Sci / Scopus Peer Reviewed
  • Vasudevan N., Ninad Gore, Rupali Zope, ShriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi (2019). “Determining Mode Shift Elasticity Based on
    Household Income And Travel Cost”. Research in Transportation Economics. Vol.85, pp.100771.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2019.100771
  • Vasudevan N., Ninad Gore, Rupali Zope, ShriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi. “Re-orientation of Para-Transit When Confronted by Mass Transit System: An approach through user’s and operator’s perception”. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, Vol.13, pp.1508-1521.https://doi.org/10.11175/easts.13.1508
  • Rupali Zope, Vasudevan N., ShriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi (2019). “Benchmarking: A Tool for Evaluation and Monitoring Sustainability of Urban Transport System in Metropolitan Cities of India”. Sustainable Cities and Society, Vol.45, pp. 48-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2018.11.011
  • Rupali Zope, Vasudevan N., ShriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi., (2017). “Benchmarking for Sustainable Urban Transport Systems: A Comparative Study in Indian Metro Cities”. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, Vol.12, pp.331-342.https://doi.org/10.11175/easts.12.331
Conference Proceedings Sci / Scopus / Professional body
  • Vasudevan N., Ninad Gore, Rupali Zope, ShriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi. Analyzing Habit of Using Personal Modes and its Breaking through Structural Equation Modeling. Presented at 100th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., USA, 25-29, January, 2021 (Virtual).
  • Vasudevan N., Ninad Gore, Rupali Zope, ShriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi. Understanding habit of travel by personal modes in context of transit usage. Presented at 99th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., USA, 12-15, January, 2020.
  • Vasudevan N., Ninad Gore, Rupali Zope, ShriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi. Investigating habit in travel mode preferences for heterogeneous travelers in a transit deficient metropolitan city. Presented at 5th International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India, Bhopal, 18-21, December 2019. (Received Best paper award in the theme of Transport Planning and Policy)
  • Vasudevan N., Ninad Gore, ShriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi. Is habit of travel resistive to use public transport? An assessment of acquaintance behavior of travelers in a transit deficient metropolitan city. Presented in Research Symposium of 12th Urban Mobility India Conference and Expo, 2019, Lucknow, 15-17th November, 2019. (Received Best paper award in the theme of Transportation Planning)
  • Vasudevan N., Ninad Gore, Rupali Zope, ShriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi. “Re-orientation of Para-Transit When Confronted by Mass Transit System: An approach through user’s and operator’s perception”. Presented at the 13th International Conference of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS), at Colombo, Sri Lanka, 9-12 September 2019.
  • Vasudevan N., Ninad Gore, Rupali Zope, ShriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi. “Is habit of travel resistive to use public transport? An assessment of acquaintance behaviour of travellers in a transit deficient metropolitan city”. Colloquium on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management, SVNIT Surat, India, 2019.
  • Vasudevan N., Vaibhav Gaurkar, ShriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi. What Happens to Para-Transit When Confronted by Mass Transit System: A Case of Surat. National Conference on Roads and Transport-NCORT 2017, IIT Roorkee, India, 14-15, October, 2017.
  • Vasudevan N., ShiriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi. Travel Demand Elasticity Analysis for Work Purpose Trips by Heterogeneous Travellers in Indian Metropolitan City, Surat. 3rd Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management. BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, India, 24-25, November 2016.
  • Vasudevan N., ShiriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi. Travel Demand Elasticity Analysis for Non-voluntary Purpose Trips by Heterogeneous Travellers in Indian Metropolitan City, Surat. Presented at the 14th World Conference on Transport research, WCTRS, Shanghai, China, 10-15, July, 2016.
  • Vasudevan N., ShiriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi. Influence of Variation in Travel Expenditure for Non-Voluntary Trips by Heterogenous Travellers in a Transit Deficient Metropolitan City. Colloquium on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management, NIT Calicut, India, 12-13, May, 2014.
  • Omkar Bidkar, Nimit Palsanawala, Vasudevan N., ShriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi. Trip Chaining Behaviour of Fast Growing Metropolitan City- Surat, Presented at the 13th International Conference of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS), at Colombo, Sri Lanka, 9-12 September 2019.
  • Aman Thakar, Vasudevan N., Sanjay Dave, and Dipak Rathva. Mode Shift Behaviour of Travellers for Work Trips in a Stated Preference Context- A Case Study of Ahmedabad City. Colloquium on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management, SVNIT Surat, India, 14, June, 2019.
  • Rupali Zope, Vasudevan N., ShriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi. Application of system dynamic model for transport mode behaviour analysis of Urban Transport system: A case study of Indian metro cities. Presented at the 15th World Conference on Transport Research, WCTRS, IIT Mumbai, India, 26-31, May, 2019.
  • Vinayaraj V.S., Vasudevan N., Sanskruti Joshi, ShiriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi. Operational Analysis and Schedule Development of Surat BRTS Phase I Stage II Corridor. The 23rd International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, Hong Kong, 8-10, December, 2018.
  • Nandan Dawda, Gaurang Joshi, ShriniwasArkatkar and Vasudevan N. Multimodal of Lateral Transport System: A Case Study of Successful Cities Worldwide. First International Conference on Innovations in Infrastructure, IITRAM, Ahmedabad, India, May, 2018.
  • Rupali Zope, Vasudevan N., ShriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi. Development of Household Travel Survey Instrument for Sustainable Transportation Planning. 4th International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG), IIT Mumbai, India, December, 2017.
  • Prince R. Chaplot, Sharad A. Lad, Omkar S. Bidkar, Vasudevan N. Influence of Accessibility Factors on Travel Mode Choice in an Emerging Metropolitan City, Surat. 5th Colloquium on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management (CTSEM2018), NIT Warangal, May, 2018.
  • Bijul Raveendran, Vasudevan N., ShriniwasArkatkar and Lelitha Devi Vanajakshi. Image processing-based traffic data extraction with perspective view correction. ASCE India Conference 2017, Urbanization Challenges in Emerging Economies: Moving Towards Resilient Sustainable Cities and Infrastructure, IIT Delhi, India, December, 2017.
  • Omkar Bidkar, Nimit Palsanawala, Vasudevan N., ShriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi. Trip Chaining Behaviour of Fast Growing Metropolitan City- Surat. Urban Mobility of India, Hyderabad, India, November, 2017.
  • Rupali Zope, Vasudevan N., ShriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi. Benchmarking for Sustainable Urban Transport Systems: A Comparative Study in Indian Metro Cities. International Conference of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, Ho-Chi minh City, Vietnam, May, 2017.
  • Vinayaraj V.S., Vasudevan N., A.R. Chaudhari, ShiriniwasArkatkar and Gaurang Joshi. Modelling of Pedestrians Gap Acceptance Behavior at Midblock Crosswalks Sections in Indian Metropolitan Cities. 3rd Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management. BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, India, 24-25, November, 2016.
 Research Reports
Books / Book Chapters / Monographs Sci / Scopus / Peer Reviewed
  • Dawda N., Joshi G., Arkatkar S., Vasudevan N. (2018) Multimodal of Lateral Transport System: A Case Study of Successful Cities Worldwide. In: Deb D., Balas V., Dey R., Shah J. (eds) Innovative Research in Transportation Infrastructure. Lecture Notes in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure. Springer, Singapore, pp.101-110. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2032-3_10 ISBN 978-981-13-2031-6 ISBN 978-981-13-2032-3 (eBook) ISSN 2523-3440 ISSN 2523-3459 (electronic)
Administrative and Institutional Support
Training programs attended
  • Attended workshop on research proposal writing at KFRI conducted by KSCSTE on 23rdDecember 2022.
  • Attended orientation programme for newly recruited junior scientists conducted by KSCSTE, 14-21 November 2022.
  • Attended GIAN course on ‘Effective Road Safety Practices-Prevention is better than cure’ organized by SVNIT Surat, 6-10 August 2018.
  • Attended the workshop on “Structural Equation Modelling” organized by IIM Ahmedabad with Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumakuru, 1-3 June 2018.
  • Attended STTP on Comprehensive Transportation Planning Practices (CTTP) under TEQIP-II organized by SVNIT Surat, 16-27 May 2016.
  • One-week STTP on MX Road and AutoCAD Civil 3D software under TEQIP-II organized by SVNIT Surat, 6-10 May 2016.
  • Certificate Course in Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) of 60hrs duration organized by Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, May 2014.
  • Attended one-week STTP on Fuzzy Logic, Image Processing and their Applications (FLIPATA) under under TEQIP-II organized by SVNIT Surat, 1-5 October 2013.
  • Attended one day training program on “Image processing-based traffic data collection using Traffic Analyzer and Enumerator-TRAZER Suite under TEQIP-II organized by SVNIT Surat, 7 September 2013.
  • Attended proficiency course on ‘Design and Evaluation of Flexible Pavements’ under TEQIP-II organized by SVNIT Surat, 10-11 May 2013.
Training Workshop conducted
  • One-day road safety awareness training for selected students named ‘Safe Road to School’ organized by NATPAC in association with the Kerala Road Safety Authority (KRSA) for 9 schools across Kerala from October till December 2022.
  • The three-day training programme for Motor Vehicles Department officials titled as “Propagating Engineering Aspects for Coherent Enforcement” (PEACE) organized by NATPAC; 09-11 May 2023
  • Two-days Workshop on Full Depth Reclamation (FDR) Technology in association with KIIFB at RECCAA Club, Kakkanad, Ernakulam, 4-5 May 2023
  • International Conference on "Innovative Methods and Practical Applications for Cognizant Transportation Systems" (IMPACTS 2023), 20-22 March, 2023
  • 15 days Road Safety Audit Course organized by NATPAC, 07-Nov-2022.
  • st and 2ndAIIB workshop on Road Safety Audit and Engineering Measures under the projectcomponent of Mukhyamantri Gram Sadak Yojana (MMGSY), Govt. of Gujarat, held at SVNIT Surat, August and September 2019.
  • 2nd and 3rd AITD workshop on Road Safety Audit and Engineering Measures held at SVNIT Surat, July, and September 2018.
  • 3rd National Conference on Recent Advances In Traffic Engineering (RATE) 2018, held at SVNIT Surat, August 2018.
  • GIAN Course on ‘Effective Road Safety Practices-Prevention is better than cure’, held at SVNIT Surat, August 2018.
  • 4th International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India, held at IIT Bombay, December 2017.
  • National workshop on “Methodology for Indian Highway Capacity Manual” for Development of Indo-Highway Capacity Manual (Indo-HCM) sponsored by Planning Commission, Govt. of India, (XIIthFive-year plan funded project through CSIR-CRRI) in January, 2013.
Honours/ Awards/Fellowships Received:
  • Bagged first prize in the Idea Pitching Competition “A solution to Water Logging in Kochi City” organized by FEELA & TERESIAN IEDC on 12-05-2023. (Team Members: Shri. B Anish Kini, Dr. Rameesha T V, Dr. Vasudevan N., Dr. Anila Cyril).
  • Ministry of Human Resource Development Scholarship for Pursuing Doctoral degree (2015 – 2020)
  • Ministry of Human Resource Development Scholarship for GATE qualified students for pursuing Post Graduation (2012 – 2014)
Membership in Professional bodies
  • Indian Road Congress
    Life Member
  • The Institute of Engineers (India)
    Associate Member
  • Indian Society for Technical Education
    Life Member
Student Guidance
  • M.Tech Thesis : Nil
  • B.Tech Project : Nil
Internship
Sl.No Name of Institution Course Topic
1 Jyoti Engineering College, Cheruthuruthy M.Tech. TE (4 students) Traffic Survey for Sabari Rail project
2 St Thomas College, Chengannur B.Tech (11 students) Traffic movement analysis at Vytilla junction using License Plate method
3 Muthoot Institute of Technology and Science, Varikoli B.Tech (2 students) Preliminary study for Kochi Metro rail users
4 IIT Kharagpur M.Tech (2 students) Integrated Choice Latent Variable modelling for Kochi metro rail
5 NIT Calicut B.Tech (4 students) Study on travel behaviour and NMT in regard with use of Kochi Metro
Invited Talk delivered
  • Lecture on “Transportation Engineering and Planning: Scope and Opportunities” organized by Muthoot Institute of Technology and Science, Varikoli, Kerala, April 2023.
  • Lecture on Traffic Rules and Road safety at Government Model Boy's Higher School School, Irinjalakuda, Thrissur, March 2023
  • Expert lecture in the online Short Term Training Programme on “Tools for Transportation Data Analysis & Modelling (TTDAM)” organised by Centre for Transportation Research, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, March, 2021.
  • Expert lecture during the online Faculty Development Program on “Research Avenues in Transportation Engineering” organized by the Department of Civil Engineering, Albertian Institute of Science and Technology (AISAT), Kochi, Kerala, August, 2020
  • Lecture on “Mode preference behavior of Travellers of Surat city” in “Comprehensive Transportation Planning and Practice” training program conducted by SVNIT, 2016.
Positions held
  • Committee Member of Press & Media, social media related visibility.
  • Member of committee constituted for selection of Technical Officer on temporary basis at Regional Centre Ernakulam.
  • Convenor of the committee constituted for reviewing road safety pamphlets of NATPAC.