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Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Mumbai - 400 076, Maharashtra, India
Ph: +91 22 2576 7305
Fax: +91 22 2576 7302
Email: kvkrao@iitb.ac.in


About me               

Dr. K V Krishna Rao is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He has over 30 years of teaching, research and development and consultation experience in the area of Transportation Systems Engineering. He completed his PhD in Urban Transportation Planning in 1996 and Masters in Transportation Engineering in 1986, both from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. His research interests include sustainable urban transportation planning, travel survey design and analysis, travel behaviour and choice modelling, urban land use transport modelling, transit oriented development, air travel demand modelling, capacity and level of service of traffic facilities, pavement analysis, design and management. He has supervised 14 Ph.D theses and over 75 M.Tech dissertations so far and completed several sponsored research and consultancy studies in his areas of research. He has made significant contributions in estimating traffic demand on highway and transit systems including passenger water transport systems in MMR. His contribution in the preparation of master plans for metro rail systems in the cities of Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Pune and MMR in General are noteworthy. He has several publications in refereed international journals and conferences. He has served also in several administrative positions at IIT Bombay. He has served as Vice-Chairman of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for the year 2005. He has served as Associate Dean and Dean of Infrastructure Planning at IIT Bombay during 2006 to 2012. He has been the head of civil engineering department, IIT Bombay for six years during 2012 to 2017. He is the Director of the forthcoming 15th World Conference on Transport Research which will be held at IIT Bombay from 26-31 May 2019. He was conferred with Excellence in Teaching Award in 2008, 2012 and 2016 by IIT Bombay.  He is a member of professional bodies like ASCE, IRC, WCTRS, IUT, etc., and represented on several technical committees of IRC and Government Agencies and local bodies.

 

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