Pavement Systems Engineering

Dr. Avijit Maji is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, India. He received Doctor of Engineering from Morgan State University, USA in 2008; M.Tech. from IIT Kanpur in 2004; and B.E. from Bengal Engineering College (now known as Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology) in 2000. He has more than twenty years of academia and industry experience working for organizations in India and USA. At present, he is the Co-Chair of Performance-Based Approaches and Applications Subcommittee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), USA and Executive Secretary of the Transportation Research Group of India. His area of expertise includes design, operations, and safety of transportation infrastructure. He has published more than eighty technical research papers in journals, edited books, and conferences. For his contribution, Maryland Society of Professional Engineers conferred him with the “Young Engineer of the Year Award” in 2011. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in Maryland, USA, and Transportation Professional Certification Board’s certified Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE).Prof. Nagendra Rao Velaga is working as a professor in the Transportation Systems Engineering Group of IIT Bombay. His major areas of interest include intelligent transportation systems (ITS), human factors in ITS, and transport accessibility & mobility. He received his Ph.D. in Transport Studies from Loughborough University, UK. Before joining with IIT Bombay, he worked as a research fellow for 3 years at Research Councils UK (RCUK) digital economy research hub, University of Aberdeen, UK. Dr. Velaga has about 15 years of experience in industry and academia in India and abroad. He has published more than eighty technical research papers in peer-reviewed international journals.Dr. Solomon Debbarma is an assistant professor in Transportation Systems Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Bombay. Before joining IIT Bombay, Debbarma was an adjunct lecturer and a postdoctoral research associate at the Ingram School of Engineering of Texas State University, San Marcos, USA. He received his Ph.D. and MTech. in Civil Engineering from IIT Roorkee. He graduated with a Civil Engineering degree from NIT Agartala. His primary research interests include rigid pavements, sustainable concrete materials (e.g., recycled aggregates, industrial wastes, agricultural wastes), and special concrete for pavement applications. He has more than 20 peer-reviewed publications and was the lead author of 13 of the papers published in peer-reviewed journals. He is a Volunteer Member of the ACI Committee 555 on Recycled Concrete Aggregates and Young Member of RILEM. Debbarma served as a reviewer for several international peer-reviewed journals. He is a Young Faculty Award recipient awarded by IIT Bombay. In addition, he was the Entrepreneur Lead for the NSF Innovation-Corps project: High-performance Cementitious Materials, funded by the National Science Foundation, USA in 2021.Dr. Sangram Krishna Nirmale is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He specializes in transportation engineering, with a strong focus on driver behaviour modelling, travel demand analysis, and econometric modelling of urban mobility systems. He holds a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, where his research centred on multi-vehicle anticipation-based models for describing driver behaviour in heterogeneous and disorderly traffic conditions. Before joining IIT Bombay, he served as a Research Scientist at the Centre for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation, and Urban Planning (CiSTUP) at IISc Bengaluru. His academic journey includes an MTech in Urban Planning from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, and a BE in Civil Engineering from the Government College of Engineering, Karad. Dr. Nirmale has made significant contributions to the field of transportation research, particularly in developing driver behaviour models for Indian traffic conditions. His work has been published in leading journals, including Transportation Research Part C, Transportation Research Part B, and Transport Policy. His research interests include discrete choice modelling, perception errors in travel behaviour, and integrating econometrics with machine learning for transportation analysis. His technical expertise spans data analytics, GIS tools, and simulation, contributing to his role in advancing urban transportation planning and policy development.

• Performance Evaluation of High Recycle Asphalt Pavement content: A Comprehensive Analysis.- Influence of Incineration Biomedical Waste Ash on the Characterization of Cement-Treated Road Bases.- Investigation of Volumetric Properties of Recycled Mixtures with Waste Engine oil as Rejuvenator: Emphasis on Cost.- Effect of RAP Fractionation on Stiffness Behavior of Cold Asphalt Mix.- STUDY ON DEGRADATION OF NATURAL COIR GEOTEXTILE AND ITS PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT USING COATING MATERIALS.- Assessment of Strength and Long-Term Durability Properties of Stabilized Granular Lateritic Soil for Use in Base and  Sub-Base layer of Pavement.- Effect of Waste Transformer Oil (WTO) and Waste Engine Oil (WEO) on the performance of 100% RAP mixes at reduced mixing temperatures.- Evaluation of Rheological Master Curve Models for Rice Husk Ash-Modified Asphalt: Goodness of Fit Approach.- Machine Learning-Enhanced Soil Stabilization Using Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes and Fly Ash for Road Construction.- Comparison of structural performance of low volume roads in Kerala using falling weight deflectometer.- Fatigue Life and Durability Analysis of Waste Glass-Enhanced Cold Bitumen Emulsion Mixtures.- Review Article on the Effect of Wireless Charging System for EVs on Pavement.- Combine Effect of Sulphur-Chitin on Aging Susceptibility of Asphalt Binder.- etc.