Kalaga Ramachandra Rao

Awards

1. Indo-US Research Fellowship, Indo-US Science & Technology Forum, 2008

2. Awarded a Project for Young Scientists by Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, to conduct research on Heterogeneous Traffic Flow Modelling for India in 2002.

Sponsored Research (Representative)

1. Pedestrian Safe Public Transport Systems: Infrastructure, operations, Vehicles, Policies and Legislation, VREF Project, Collaborating institute: University of Cape Town G. Tiwari, Sudipto Mukerjee; Girish Agrawal Kalaga R. Rao, K.N.Jha Nomesh Bolia N. Chatterjee Dinesh Mohan Anoop Chawla Puneet Mahajan Sanjeev Sanghi IIT Delhi (Rs. 55.20 lacs). Status: In progress

2. Review and Evaluation of Traffic Impact Assessment (TIA) study of the Transit Oriented Development (TOD) influence zone plan, Shakti Foundation, N. Delhi; G. Tiwari, Kalaga R. Rao, (Rs, 25.20 lacs), Status: In progress

3. Promoting Low Carbon Transport in India, UNEP RISOE Centre, Technical University of Denmark. Collaborating with: IIM Ahmedabad, CEPT Ahmedabad (Investigators: G. Tiwari, D. Mohan, Sunil Estimation of Fuel Savings in Alternate Transport Plans in Indian Cities, Petroleum Conservation Research Association, New Delhi (Investigators: S. Kale, G. Tiwari, Ramachandra Rao Kalaga, D. Mohan; Duration: 3 yrs, Status: Part I Completed June 2011; Part II in progress)

Consultancy (Representative)

1. NHAI

2. Vishal Infrastructure Ltd.

3. Hindustan Colas Ltd.

4. Yala Constructions, N. Delhi

5. HUDA, Gurgaon

6. Central Warehousing Corporation

Short Courses/Workshops Organised/Planned

1. Short term course on “Traffic flow theory’, Mar 2016 (Coordinator: Dr. K. R. Rao.)

2. ‘Traffic data collection methods and technologies’ 19-23 May 2014, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi (Coordinator: Dr. Kalaga Ramachandra Rao.)

3. ‘Pavement Engineering with Geosynthetics’, 23 – 27 Apr 2007, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi (Coordinators: Prof. G.V. Rao and Dr. Kalaga Ramachandra Rao.)

4. ‘Planning and Design of Bus Transportation Systems’, 29 May to 02 June 2006, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi (Coordinator: Dr. Kalaga Ramachandra Rao.)

Journals

1. Transportation Research Record (Sage)

2. Journal of Modern Transportation (Springer)

Attended Conferences/Workshops (Recent)

1. Traffic and Granular Flow  (TGF-2019), Pamplona, Spain, Jul 2019.

2. World Conference on Transportation Research (WCTR), Mumbai, May 2019.

3. Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics (PED), 2018, Lund, Sweden, Aug 2018.