6th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG-2021)

CONFERENCE BROCHURE

Organised By: Transportation Research Group of India (TRG) National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

Venue: Sangam Hotel, Tiruchirappalli, India Date : 14-17 December, 2021

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Dear Transportation Professionals, We invite you to submit abstracts for the 6th Conference of the Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG-2021) to be held from December 14 – 17, 2021, in Hotel Sangam, Trichy. The objective of the conference is to create and provide a forum for interchange of ideas among researchers, educators, practitioners, managers, and policy-makers in the field of transportation in India and around the world. We intend to cover a wide spectrum of topics related to transportation of people and freight.

Dr. Samson Mathew Dr. Sunitha V Dr. Marisamynathan S Chairperson, CTRG2021 Vice-Chairperson, CTRG2021 Vice-Chairperson, CTRG2021 Director, NATPAC Asst Professor, NITT

Dr. Ashish Verma Dr. Lelitha Devi Vanajakshi President, TRG Chair, Scientific Committee, CTRG 2021

About TRG

Transportation Research Group of India (TRG) is a registered society under Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960 with Reg. No. DRB/C/SOR/29/2011-12. The aim of TRG is to aid India's overall growth through focused transportation research, education, and policies in the country. Through these years, TRG has grown into India's prominent research forums facilitating interchange of ideas among transportation researchers, educators, managers, policymakers from India and all over the world. The scope of TRG's activities extends to all modes and sectors of transport (road, rail, air, and water; public and private; motorized and non- motorized) as well as all levels (urban, regional, inter-city, and rural transport) and for both passenger as well as freight movement, in India. It also addresses the transportation related issues of; safety, efficiency, economic and social development, local and global environmental impact, energy, land-use, equity and access for the widest range of travelers with special needs, etc.

Mission

To aid India's overall growth through focused transportation research, education, and policies in the country.

Vision • To provide a unique forum within India for the interchange of ideas among transportation researchers, educators, managers, policymakers from India and all over the world, with the intention of covering all modes and sectors of transport (road, rail, air, and water; public and private; motorized and non-motorized) as well as all levels (urban, regional, inter-city, and rural transport) and for both passenger as well as freight movement, in India. At the same time, to also address the transportation related issues of; safety, efficiency, economic and social development, local and global environmental impact, energy, land-use, equity and access for the widest range of travelers with special needs etc. • To serve as a platform to guide and focus transportation research, education, and policies in India towards satisfying country's needs and to assist in its overall growth. 02 6th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG-2021) 14 – 17 December. 2021, Tiruchirappalli, India

About the Conference

Ever since the onset of economic reforms in early 1990s, India has experienced rapid economic growth along with increase in prosperity and income levels of citizens. However, this economic growth has also resulted in exponential growth of private vehicle ownership and use (similar to what US and Europe have experienced in early 1950s and late 1960s, respectively), which coupled with increase in population and other related factors, has resulted in transportation problems, namely accident, congestion, and pollution, at a severe level.

All this and similar developments have brought home the urgency of recognizing that an efficient transportation system is necessary for increasing productivity and enabling the country to compete effectively in the world market. Adequacy and reliability of transport infrastructure and services are important factors that contribute towards the ability of the country to compete in the field of international trade and attract foreign direct investment.

Considering these aspects, Planning Commission of India in its 11th five-year plan clearly recognizes the necessity to foster the development of the various transport modes in an integrated manner that will lead to the realization of an efficient, sustainable, safe, and regionally balanced transportation system, where each mode of transport operates in its field of economy and usefulness, with competitive and non-discriminatory prices that are adequate to support progressive development of transport infrastructure and services. This would also enable the comparative advantages and economic efficiencies to be properly reflected in the user costs. Accordingly, the Planning Commission has earmarked 34% of the total investment in infrastructure, which is 9% of the GDP by 2011-12, exclusively for transportation infrastructure. Also, this investment is spread across all sectors of transport (road, rail, air, and water) as well as at all levels (urban, regional, inter- city, and rural) and for both passenger as well as freight movement. However, all these efforts made by government puts an onus on transportation researchers, educators, managers, and policymakers across all transport sectors to orient their actions and works towards facilitating the achievement of desired outputs expected from the current and proposed investments by the government and to ultimately harbor the overall growth of the country. This is important to also achieve the vision of sustainable and integrated multi-modal transportation system for the country, as envisaged by Planning Commission. Currently, there is no appropriate platform in India for professionals across all modes of transport, to come together and interchange ideas and knowledge. Also, there is no regular avenue in India at present to collate and publish the research literature across all transportation sectors and modes for better inter-modal understanding. TRG wishes to bridge this gap by providing such a platform/ avenue in India and become partner in the overall growth of the country.

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About NIT Tiruchirappalli

National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli is one of the premier technical institutes in India. The National Institute of Technology (formerly known as Regional Engineering College) Tiruchirappalli, situated in the heart of Tamil Nadu on the banks of the river Cauvery, was started as a joint and co-operative venture of the Government of India and the Government of Tamil Nadu during 1964 with a view to catering to the needs of man-power in technology for the Country. This institution was granted Deemed University Status with the approval of the University Grants Commission, the All India Council for Technical Education and the Govt. of India in the year 2003 and was renamed as National Institute of Technology. NITT retained its No.1 position among all NITs, 5th year in a row in the “Indian Rankings 2020” released by NIRF, MHRD government of India. It offers Undergraduate Courses in ten branches and Post Graduate Courses in twenty one disciplines of Science, Engineering & Technology besides M.S. (by Research) and Ph.D. in all departments. NITT is located on the Tiruchirappalli Tanjore highway (NH 67) about 18 kms from Trichy city. One can avail bus no.128 or

Tanjore bound buses from Central Bus Stand to reach NITT. The journey takes about 40 mins from CBS to NITT.

Conference Chairperson

Dr. Samson Mathew Dr. V. Sunitha Dr. Marisamynathan S Chairperson, CTRG2021 Vice-Chairperson, CTRG2021 Vice-Chairperson, CTRG2021 Director, NATPAC; Assistant Professor, National Assistant Professor, National Institute

Professor, National Institute institute of Technology of Technology Tiruchirappalli of Technology Tiruchirappalli Tiruchirappalli Email : [email protected] Email : [email protected] Email : [email protected] Contact : + 91 - 9820481495

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Local Organising Committee

• Director (Ex-officio), NIT Tiruchirappalli • Shriniwas Arkatkar, SVNIT Surat • Samson Mathew, Director, NATPAC (NITT Tiruchirappalli) • Akhilesh Kumar Maurya, IIT Guwahati

• Sunitha V, NIT Tiruchirappalli • Sabyasachee Mishra, The University of

• Marisamynathan S, NIT Tiruchirappalli Memphis, USA • S Moses Santhakumar, NIT Tiruchirappalli • Siddhartha Rokade, MANIT Bhopal

• Nisha Radhakrishnan, NIT Tiruchirappalli • Ashish Verma, IISc Bengaluru

• Darshana O, NIT Tiruchirappalli • Murali Krishna J, IIT Madras • Partha Chakroborty, IIT Kanpur • Tom V Mathew, IIT Palakkad

Scientific Committee

• Lelitha Devi, IIT Madras, India (Chair, TCT-H01) Chair, • Anuj Sharma, Iowa State University, USA

Scientific Committee • Anusha, S. P., College of Engineering • Samson Mathew, Director, NATPAC, (NIT Tiruchirappalli), Trivandrum, India India (Conference Chair 6th CTRG, 2021) • Aravind Krishnaswamy, IIT Delhi, India • Sunitha V, NIT Tiruchirappalli, India (Conference Co- • Ashish Bhaskar, Queensland, University, Chair 6th CTRG, 2021) Australia

• Marisamynathan S, NIT Tiruchirappalli, India (Conference • Bachu Anil Kumar, IIT Patna, India

Co-Chair 6th CTRG, 2021) • Bhargava Rama Chilukuri, IIT Madras India • Dharamveer Singh, IIT Bombay, India (Chair, TCT-A01) • Bhavathrathan B. K, IIT Palakkad, India • Animesh Das, IIT Kanpur, India (Co-chair, TCT-A01) • C. S. R. K. Prasad, NIT Warangal, India • Akhilesh Kumar Maurya, IIT Guwahati, India (Chair, TCT- • Chandra R. Bhat, University of Texas at

B01) Austin, USA

• Gowri Asaithambi, IIT Tirupati, India (Co-chair, TCT-B01 • Charisma F. Choudhury, University of Leeds, • Bhargab Maitra, IIT Kharagpur, India (Chair, TCT-C01) UK • Debasis Basu IIT Bhubaneshwar, India (Co-chair, TCT- • Constantinos Antonio, Technical University of C01) Munich, Germany

• Ashish Verma, IISc Bengaluru, India (Chair, TCT-D01) • Darcy Bullock, Purdue University, USA

• Abdul R. Pinjari, IISc Bengaluru, India (Co-chair, TCT-D01) • Gaurang J Joshi, SVNIT Surat, India • Manoranjan Parida, IIT Roorkee, India (Chair, TCT-E01) • Kumares C. Sinha, Purdue University, USA • Madhu Errampalli, CSIR-CRRI, New Delhi, India (Co-chair, • Laurence Rilett, University of Nebraska TCT-E01) Lincoln, USA

• Avijit Maji, IIT Bombay, India (Chair, TCT-F01 • Nagendra Rao Velaga, IIT Bombay, India

• P. Vedagiri, IIT Bombay, India (Co-chair, TCT-F01) • Nisha Radhakrishnan, NIT Tiruchirappalli, • S. Velmurugan, CSIR-CRRI, New Delhi, India (Chair, TCT- India G01) • S Moses Santhakumar, NIT Tiruchirappalli, • Prasanta Sahu, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, India (Co-chair, India

TCT-G01) • S. N. Suresha, NIT Surathkal, India

• Gitakrishnan Ramadurai, IIT Madras, India (Co-chair, TCT- • Said Easa, Ryerson University, Canada H01) • Srinivas Peeta, Georgia Institute of • Rajat Rastogi, IIT Roorkee, India (Chair, TCT-I01) Technology, USA • Shriniwas Arkatkar, SVNIT Surat, India (Co-chair,TCT-I01) • Tarun Rambha, IISc Bengaluru, India

• Aleksandar Stevanovic, University of Pittsburgh, USA • Vasantha Kumar, VIT Vellore, India

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Conference Theme

Theme A : Pavements and materials Theme B : Traffic flow theory, operations and facilities Theme C : Transport planning, policy, economics and project finance Theme D : Travel behavior and transport demand Theme E : Environment (including energy) and sustainability in transportation Theme F : Transportation safety and security Theme G : Transport and mobility networks (including public transportation, freight and logistics) Theme H : Emerging travel technologies (ITS and IOT) Theme I : Other transportation modes (including NMT) and pedestrian Note : Papers meeting the broad areas of the Conference Themes would also be considered.

Important Dates

Start of Abstracts Submission : December 1, 2020

Submission of Abstracts Closing : January 31, 2021

Abstract Review Decision : March 15, 2021 Submission of Full Papers : May 15, 2021 Full Paper Review Decision (1st Round) : August 15, 2021

Last date of submission of revised paper : August 31, 2021

Intimation of Final decision to authors : October 1, 2021 Early Bird registration starts : October 1, 2021

Submission of Accepted Papers in Camera-ready form : October 15, 2021 Compulsory registration of at least one of the authors of accepted papers : October 15, 2021

Early Bird registration closes : October 30, 2021

Instruction for Submission

Submit the extended abstract in PDF file format in easychair

• If you do not have an easychair account, create a new account by visiting https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ctrg2021. Click on “Sign up for an account” to create an account. Follow the necessary instructions and fill in the details as required.

• After creating an account and logging into your account, go to “My Submission” to submit an abstract. • Provide all the required information and click on the tab “Submit” after attaching your abstract (in pdf

format only). Provide all the co-authors’ details also on this page.

• If you want to submit another abstract (before logging out) then go to “My Submission” again and complete step 3 again.

• Once you have submitted abstract(s) you can log out. If you want to submit another abstract at a later date, then please log in to your account and go to “My Submission” again and complete Step 3 again. All questions about submissions should be emailed to [email protected]. 06

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Submission Guidelines

• The title of the paper should be written in Times New Roman font of 12 pt. size, bold faced, sentence

case, single spacing and center justified.

• After the title, a space of 24 pt. should be provided.

• Please note that the author(s) details (like Name, email, affiliation, etc.) should NOT be provided in the entire body of the abstract. Violation of this will lead to rejection of the abstract. • The abstract would start with the word 'Abstract:' written in bold and without indent. The abstract should be written in Times New Roman regular font of 12 pt. size, single spacing and double justified. Avoid underline or highlights on the text. • The abstract should consist of three to four paragraphs. The first paragraph should introduce the research

problem, its background, and the scope. The second (and, if required, the third and the fourth)

paragraph(s) should broadly describe the methodology adopted, salient findings and contributions of the

study.

• Each paragraph should start, without any indent, but with a 12pt line gap with respect to the last line of the previous paragraph. • The abstract should not contain any tables or figures. • References should be avoided in the abstract. If, however, they are completely unavoidable, list them briefly as footnotes. In any case, please do not include more than two references. • If abbreviations are used in the abstract, it should be put within parenthesis (where it is mentioned for the

first time) immediately after the full form.

• The total length of the abstract should be between 500 to 1000 words.

• It is reiterated that there should not be any indication about the authors' identity in the entire abstract

page. • The promotion of any commercial product should be strictly avoided. Theme (selected from the list): Theme – any other (optional): Word-count: Keywords (3-5):

Abstract Review Policy

• The abstract review will be double-blind. • The decision on the abstract will be based on at least two review reports. • Abstract on a topic not relevant to any of the CTRG themes may be rejected without a review. • The decision of the Scientific Committee (CTRG) on the acceptance/ rejection of an abstract will be final. • The abstract identification number and the title of the abstract (and not the name(s) of the author(s)) of

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Doctoral Research Symposium Transportation Research

A Doctoral Research Symposium in Transportation Research, which will provide a platform for Ph.D. students to showcase their dissertation work and network with academicians and industrialists working in those areas, will be conducted as part of the 6th CTRG. An extended abstract of dissertations completed in 2020, or that will be completed in 2021, can be submitted. The extended abstract should be having a graphical abstract of the entire work along with objectives, brief description of methodology, novelty, and contributions. The abstract, including the graphics, should not be more than 2 pages. Page 1 should have title and complete author information, and the graphical abstract. Page 2 should list objectives, brief description of methodology, novelty of the work and contributions made. The abstract should be forwarded by the faculty supervisor confirming the year of submission as given below. Documents in PDF format can be submitted through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ctrg2021. Submission deadlines will be August 31, 2021. Selected authors will be invited to make poster presentation during the symposium.

Publication Details

Please note that selected papers that are presented (oral or poster) would be published in the Partnering

Journals (Transportation in Developing Economies - A Journal of the Transportation Research Group of India, Springer; Journal of Big Data Analytics in Transportation, Springer). Remaining papers that are presented (oral or poster) will be published in the conference proceedings published by leading publishers. Registration Details

Sl.No. Delegation Category Early Bird Normal Spot Members 1 TRG member delegates from India ₹10,000 ₹12,500 ₹15,000 2 TRG International members $325 $350 $400 3 TRG student members from India ₹4,000 ₹5,500 ₹7,000

Non-members 4 Delegates from India ₹12,500 ₹15,000 ₹17,500 5 International delegates $350 $375 $425

6 Student delegates from India ₹5,000 ₹6,500 ₹8,000 7 International student delegates $150 $170 $200 Membership + Registration 8 Delegates from India (TRG Life Membership + Registration) ₹25,000 ₹27,500 ₹30,000 9 International Delegates (TRG Life Membership + Registration) $1,825 $1,850 $1,900 10 Student delegates from India (1 Year Student Membership + ₹5,500 ₹7,000 ₹8,500 Registration) Executive Courses 11 Standard Delegates from India ₹3,000 ₹4,000 ₹5,000 12 Student Delegates from India ₹1,500 ₹2,000 ₹2,500 13 Standard Delegates - International $75 $85 $90 14 Student Delegates- International $40 $50 $60 Note: The registration fee includes: all applicable government taxes except the 18% GST; access to all the technical and keynote sessions of the conference; access to the Executive Course for an additional amount; and the Registration kit and teas/coffees and lunches at the conference venue All $ amount mentioned above are in US Dollar 08 6th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG-2021) 14 – 17 December. 2021, Tiruchirappalli, India

About Tiruchirappalli

Brahadeshwara Temple, Thanjavur Ranganathaswamy Temple, Srirangam

St. Joseph's Church Kallanai Dam

Tiruchirappalli (also called Trichy) is one of the oldest inhabited cities in India. It is the 4th largest city situated at the geographic center of Tamil Nadu on the banks of Cauvery. The city looks very calm and peaceful which is developing fast in infrastructure and cleanliness. Trichy is completely surrounded by agricultural fields with densely populated industrial and residential areas that have recently been built in the northern part of the city.

It has been recognized as an important educational center since the time of British rule. Also, numerous temples and monuments make the city a foremost tourist destination in Tamil Nadu. It has a well-developed transport infrastructure consists of major National highways, an International airport, and the busiest railway station.

Conference Venue

Sangam Hotel Collector’s Office Road, Trichy, Tamil Nadu – 620 001,India Tel : 91-431-4244555 / 2414700 / 4242 555 Fax : 91-431-2415779; +91-431-2418 480 Email: [email protected]

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6th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG-2021) 14 – 17 December. 2021, Tiruchirappalli, India

Organised by

Transportation Research Group of India National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (TRG) (NITT) Supported by

IISc Bengaluru IIT Madras IIT Palakkad NATPAC

Co-Sponsors (Non-Financial)

WCTRS SIG C3, D3, H2 ATPIO

Partner journals

Transportation in Developing Economies - A Journal of Big Data Analytics Journal of the Transportation Research in Transportation (Springer) Group of India (Springer)

Contact us

Transportation Research Group of India (TRG) c/o Prof. Ashish Verma President, TRG For any general query contact: Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru Mr. Sandeep Singh Bangalore-560012, Karnataka, India Email: [email protected] Ph: +91-80-2293 2329 Mob. No. +91 – 9962219864 [email protected] www.trgindia.org 10