Understating the significance of gender-based equity in road safety – A Bengaluru Case Study

Presenter: ASHISH VERMA

Bio: Dr. Ashish Verma is a Ph.D. from IIT Bombay and currently serving as Assoc. Prof. of Transportation Engg. at Dept. of Civil Engg. and Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation, and Urban Planning (CiSTUP) at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. Before joining IISc, he has served in IIT Guwahati, and Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA). His research interests are in; sustainable transportation planning, public transport planning and management, modeling and optimization of transportation systems, travel behaviour, driver behaviour and road safety, intelligent transportation system (ITS), traffic management etc. He has authored more than 120 research publications in the area of sustainable transportation and road safety and a book on “Public Transport Planning and Management in Developing Countries”, which is published by CRC Press. He is Editor of Transport Policy, Elsevier and Associate Editor of Urban Rail Transit, Springer. He is the Founding President of Transportation Research Group of India (TRG, www.trgindia.org), He is presently serving as Country Representative from India and Steering Committee Member of World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) based in Univ. of Leeds, UK