Recent Advances in Traffic Engineering

1. Front Matter

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2. Advances in Traffic Engineering

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Traffic Flow Modelling for Congested Urban Road Links of Ahmedabad City

      • A. A. Amaliyar, B. S. Patel, H. R. Varia

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   3. Evaluation of Capacity and Level of Service for Selected Urban Arterial Roads—A Case Study of Rajkot City

      • Mohammad Rahim Rahimi, Monicaba Vala, Bindiya N. Patel

      Pages 23-41

   4. Estimation of Equivalency Units of Vehicle Types for Road Geometry

      • N. Sai Kumar, V. M. Naidu, C. S. R. K. Prasad

      Pages 43-54

   5. Capacity Estimation of Indian Multilane Highway by Calibrating Driver’s Behavior Parameters

      • Tanumoy Ghosh, Sudip Kumar Roy, Subhamay Gangopadhyay

      Pages 55-68

   6. Performance Enhancement of an Un-signalized Intersection Under Heterogeneous Traffic Conditions Using Microscopic Simulation: A Case Study of Bhumkar Chowk Intersection

      • Pankaj More, Ashish Methekar, Kasturi Kesarkar, Monali Nerkar, Shantanu Karhadkar, Siddharth Gaikwad

      Pages 69-84

   7. The Evaluation of Traffic Congestion Analysis for the Srinagar City Under Mixed Traffic Conditions

      • Adinarayana Badveeti, Mohammad Shafi Mir, Kasinayana Badweeti

      Pages 85-98

   8. User Perception of Automobile Level of Service: Tracking Traffic with GPS Enabled Mobile Phones

      • Drisya Manghat, Krishnamurthy Karuppanagounder

      Pages 99-119

   9. Travel Time Delay Study on Congested Urban Road Links of Ahmedabad City

      • N. I. Prajapati, A. K. Sutariya, H. R. Varia

      Pages 121-137

   10. Development of Red Light Violation Detection System for Heterogeneous Traffic

       • Jinal Jariwala, Rajesh Gujar

       Pages 139-149

   11. Comparative Analysis of Saturation Flow Using Various PCU Estimation Methods

       • Satyajit Mondal, Vijay Kumar Arya, Ankit Gupta

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   12. Empirical Travel Time Reliability Assessment of Indian Urban Roads

       • Rushikesh Amrutsamanvar, Gaurang Joshi, Shriniwas S. Arkatkar, Ravi Sekhar Chalumuri

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   13. Fuzzy Rule-Based Travel Time Estimation Modelling: A Case Study of Surat City Traffic Corridor

       • Krishna Saw, Bhimaji K. Katti, Gaurang J. Joshi

       Pages 183-198

   14. Calibration of SUMO for Indian Heterogeneous Traffic Conditions

       • Yadavilli Sashank, Nitin A. Navali, Arjuna Bhanuprakash, B. Anil Kumar, Lelitha Vanajakshi

       Pages 199-214

   15. Data Collection in Countries with Extreme Vehicle Heterogeneity and Weak Lane Disciplined Traffic

       • Bhupali Dutta, Vinod Vasudevan

       Pages 215-228

   16. Simulation of Classified Lane-Wise Vehicle Count at Toll Plazas Using Monte Carlo Simulation and Probability-Based Discrete Random Number Generation

       • V. B. Soorya, T. M. Rahul, Shriniwas S. Arkatkar

       Pages 229-242

   17. Performance Evaluation of Urban Roadway Links Using V-Box

       • G. Yadav, A. Dhamaniya

       Pages 243-263

3. Transportation Planning

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Evaluation of Noise Level in and Around Railway Platform in Surat City

      • Minakshi Vaghani, Misaq Ahmad Muradi, Punit Limbani

      Pages 267-281

This book comprises select proceedings of the National Conference on Recent Advances in Traffic Engineering (RATE 2018) with technical papers on the themes of traffic operation control and management, traffic safety and vulnerable road users, and sustainable transportation. It covers a wide range of topics, including advanced traffic data collection methods, big data analysis, mix-traffic characterization and modelling, travel time reliability, scenario of pedestrian and non-motorised vehicles (NMVs) traffic, regional traffic growth modelling, and applications of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) in traffic management. The contents of this book offer up-to-date and practical knowledge on different aspects of traffic engineering, which is useful for students, researchers as well as practitioners.

• Traffic Data Collection
• Road Safety
• Traffic Flow Theory
• Sustainable Transport
• Traffic Operation Control and Management
• Traffic Characterization and Modeling
• RATE 2018
• quality control, reliability, safety and risk

• Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India

  Shriniwas S. Arkatkar

• CSIR Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi, India

  S. Velmurugan

• Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Bengaluru, India

  Ashish Verma

Dr. Shriniwas S. Arkatkar is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at SVNIT Surat. Prior to joining SVNIT Surat, he has worked in the Department of Civil Engineering at BITS Pilani, Rajasthan. He has more than 10 years of experience in teaching, research, and consultancy in the field of traffic and transportation engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras. He completed his bachelors in Civil Engineering in 1999 and masters in the area of Urban Planning in 2001, from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, India. Dr. Arkatkar has published more than 120 research papers in journals and conference proceedings. He has hosted a special issue as Guest Editor in Transportation Letters; The International Journal of Transportation Research. He has experience in diverse fields of transportation. They include: traffic flow modelling, traffic safety, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), transportation planning, traffic operations, and traffic simulation applications. He is actively involved as Executive Secretary, Transportation Research Group of India (TRG) and as member of SIGs of WCTRS, Indian Roads Congress (IRC), Governing Council member in the Institute of Urban Transport (IUT), MoUD. 


Dr. S. Velmurugan is working as a Chief Scientist at CSIR - Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), New Delhi and is also the Former Head of the Traffic Engineering and Safety (TES) Division of CSIR-CRRI. He has completed his Ph.D. in Transportation Systems Engineering at IIT, Bombay in March, 1995 and he has also pursued two post-doctoral stints at the University of Antwerp, Belgium and the University of South Australia, Adelaide. He has served in the capacity of Team Leader in the World Bank sponsored projects as well as National Highways Authority of India and various state Public Works Departments (PWD) for the conduct of Road Safety Audits spanning over 4500 kms which include Urban Expressways, National Highways, State Highways, Major District Roads and Urban Roads. He has published more than 100 technical papers in international and national journals and presented several research papers in various scientific forums. He is the recipient of Outstanding Scientist Medal in March, 2015 instituted by the erstwhile Planning Commission, Government of India along with Construction Development Council (CIDC). Presently he is serving as the Co-Convener of Road Design and Safety Committee i.e. H-7 Committee of Indian Roads Congress (IRC). He was instrumental in the formulation / revision of 15 IRC publications during the last 12 years.


Dr. Ashish Verma obtained his Ph.D. from IIT Bombay and is currently serving as Associate Professor of Transportation Engineering at Dept. of Civil Engineering, Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation, and Urban Planning (CiSTUP), and Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems (RBCCPS) at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. He was a Visiting Professor at ITMO University, Saint Petersberg, Russia during 2016. His research interests include sustainable transportation planning, integrated public transport planning and management, modeling and optimization of transportation systems, travel behaviour, driver behaviour and road safety, intelligent transportation system (ITS), traffic management. He has authored more than 120 research publications in the area of sustainable transportation and road safety. He has also authored a book on “Public Transport Planning and Management in Developing Countries” published by CRC Press and another book on "Integrated Public Transportation System – Planning and Modelling”. He is the founding and current President of the society Transportation Research Group of India (TRG). He is presently serving as Vice Chair (Conference) of Scientific Committee, and Steering Committee Member ofWorld Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) based in the University of Leeds, UK. 

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