Geetam Tiwari

Prof. Geetam Tiwari is currently the TRIPP Chair Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. She teaches transportation planning, traffic engineering and transport economics and finance to Masters and Bachelors students apart from guiding Ph. D students working in the area of Transport Planning, Safety and Non-motorised transport.[1][2][3]

Education and biography

Tiwari finished her Bachelor of Architecture from the then University of Rourkee, Rourkee (currently Indian Institute of Technology Rourkee) in 1980 and worked for an year as Assistant Architect at the Uttar Pradesh State Construction Corporation, Lucknow. She later went to the School of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago where she did her Masters in Transport Planning and Policy and later Ph. D in Public Policy Analysis (Transport Planning). After dabbling in various professions as a Visiting faculty in the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi and as a consultant, she joined IIT Delhi in 1990 as a Senior Scientific Officer in the Applied Systems Research Programme, which would later be named as the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Program (TRIPP).[4][5][6][7]

Professional career

Tiwari was appointed an honorary doctor by Chalmers University, Sweden in 2012, for her visionary research and socially beneficial research on transport. She and her research group have contributed to enhanced knowledge on urban traffic patterns of various vehicles, public health effects in the urban environment and the relationship between the municipal infrastructure and traffic safety. Their research has led to concrete measures, such as the introduction of a Bus Rapid Transit Systems in Delhi, and guidelines for the design of highways and streets in urban environments. This, in turn, has resulted in improved accessibility and traffic safety, as well as fewer emissions of greenhouse gases and less pollution in general.[8] In addition to her teaching and research, she is one of the directors of Innovative Transport Solutions (iTrans)[9] and is part of Working groups on Urban Transport for the Twelfth Five year plan of India[10] and the National Transport Development Policy Committee (NTDPC).[11]

Tiwari has written, edited and contributed to various books in the field of urban transportation systems, road safety and injury prevention. These include The Way Forward : Transportation Planning And Road Safety,[12] Injury Prevention and Control [13] Urban transport for growing cities: high capacity bus system,[14] Road Traffic Injury Prevention: Training Manual.[15] Tiwari has authored and co-authored numerous international peer-reviewed journal articles.[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]

References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130122162927/http://civil.iitd.ac.in/faculty.html. Archived from the original on January 22, 2013. Retrieved April 11, 2013. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ "Transport research and injury prevention programme". tripp.iitd.ernet.in. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  3. ↑ "Faculty". te.iitd.ac.in. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  4. ↑ http://www.chalmers.se/en/areas-of-advance/aoa_backup/transport/Pages/Dolda%20sidor/Geetam_Tiwari-.aspx. Retrieved April 11, 2013. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ "Geetam Tiwari - India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia". indiaenvironmentportal.org.in. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  6. ↑ "Geetam Tiwari | BMW Guggenheim Lab". bmwguggenheimlab.org. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  7. ↑ Jönson, Gunilla; Tengstrèom, Emin (2005). "Urban transport development". ISBN 9783540277613.
  8. ↑ "Chalmers' honorary doctors 2012". chalmers.se. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  9. ↑ "People :: iTrans". itrans.co.in. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  10. ↑ "Recommendations of Working Group on Urban Transport for 12th Five Year Plan" (PDF). 20 September 2011. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
  11. ↑ Anvita (30 March 2012). "NTDPC on Urban Transport - Final Report" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-10-03.
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  14. ↑ Tiwari, G. (2002). Urban transport for growing cities: high capacity bus system. Macmillan. ISBN 9780333937846. Retrieved 2014-10-03.
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  16. ↑ Fazio, Joseph; Tiwari, Geetam (1995). "Nonmotorized - Motorized Traffic Accidents and Conflicts on Delhi Streets". Transportation Research Record. 1487: 68–74. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  17. ↑ Tiwari, Geetam; Mohan, Dinesh; Fazio, Joseph (March 1998). "Conflict Analysis For Prediction of Fatal Crash Locations in Mixed Traffic Streams". Accident Analysis and Prevention. 30 (2): 207–215. doi:10.1016/S0001-4575(97)00082-1. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  18. ↑ Fazio, Joseph; Hoque, Md. Mazharul; Tiwari, Geetam (1999). "Fatalities of Heterogeneous Street Traffic". Transportation Research Record. 1695: 55–60. doi:10.3141/1695-10. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  19. ↑ Tiwari, Geetam; Fazio, Joseph; Gaurav, Sushant (August 2007). "Traffic Planning For Non-Homogeneous Traffic" (PDF). Sadhana. 32 (4): 309–328. doi:10.1007/s12046-007-0027-5. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  20. ↑ Tiwari, Geetam; Fazio, Joseph; Gaurav, Sushant; Chatteerjee, Niladri (March 2008). "Continuity Equation Validation For Nonhomogeneous Traffic". Journal of Transportation Engineering. 134 (3): 118–127. doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-947x(2008)134:3(118). Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  21. ↑ Gupta, Udit; Tiwari, Geetam; Chatterjee, Niladri; Fazio, Joseph (2010). "Case Study of Pedestrian Risk Behavior and Survival Analysis" (PDF). Journal of The Eastern Asia Society for Transport Studies. 8: 2095–2111. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  22. ↑ Tiwari, Geetam; Khatoon, Mariya; Singh, Niharika; Choudhary, Prateek; Fazio, Joseph (2011). "Modification of a Highway Capacity Manual Model for Evaluation of Capacity and Level of Service at a Signalized Intersection in India". Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies. 9: 1558–1571. doi:10.11175/easts.9.1558. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  23. ↑ Gandhi, Sandeep; Tiwari, Geetam; Fazio, Joseph (2013). "Comparative Evaluation of Alternate Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) Planning, Operation and Design Options". Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies. 10: 1292–1310. doi:10.11175/easts.10.1292. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
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