Dr. Purnima K. Chowdhury
Assistant Professor
PhD (IIT Kharagpur)
M.Plan (MURP, SPA Bhopal)
B.Arch (NIT Patna)
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Dr. Purnima K. Chowdhury is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Transport Planning at the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), Bhopal. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, where her research focused on transport behavior and urban mobility in developing contexts. She completed her Master of Planning in Urban and Regional Planning (2017–2019) from SPA Bhopal, where she was awarded the Best Master’s Thesis Award. Her work is published in WCTR conference, Montreal. She has earned her Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Patna. Dr. Chowdhury presented her two doctoral research papers at the 13th Asia-Pacific Conference on Transportation and the Environment (APTE), hosted by the National University of Singapore, Dept of Civil Engineering. Her extended doctoral work explored the social acceptability of autonomous vehicles in India, particularly from the perspective of users who are personally chauffeured. She highlighted that such users may perceive risk, ease of use, and usefulness differently from users in developed countries, where the practice of employing personal chauffeurs is uncommon. She was actively involved in submitting project proposals as team member. Currently, she is working on the AMRUT 2.0 Mission, where she is the Co-PI for the assessment of the Livability Index across 34 cities in Madhya Pradesh. She has supervised five master thesis students. Her academic interests span transport cost and economics, data-driven decision-making, mobilities research, choice modelling, transport inequalities, travel behavior in the Global South. She is interested in mixed method research, computational methods.Research Interests
- Transport economics
- Choice modelling
- Transport inequality
- Machine learning
Publications
Publications
Journal Publications
- ‘To drive’ or ‘To be driver-driven’: Motives behind car user’s choice in a developing country
Journal : Transportation in Developing Economies
Purnima Kumari Chowdhury1, Ronita Bardhan2, Sumana Gupta1, Tarak Nath Mazumder1
1Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. 2Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. (Published 2024)
Personal Chauffeured Automobility: Developing Household Archetypes to Understand Mobility Behaviour in India
Purnima Kumari Chowdhury1, Ronita Bardhan2, Tarak Nath Mazumder1
1Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. 2Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. (Waiting for one more reviewer's comments from Case Studies on Transport Policy)
The norm of personal chauffeured automobility in the global south: Evidence from India
Purnima Kumari Chowdhury1, Ronita Bardhan2, Tarak Nath Mazumder1
1Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. 2Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. (In Revision)
International Conference Publications
World Conference on Transport Research - WCTR 2023 Montreal, Canada
Impact of Subsidies to Private Vehicles on Public Bus Transport Operation - A Case of Ahmadabad, India Journal : Transportation Research Proceedia
Purnima Kumari Chowdhury1, Binayak Choudhury, Paulose N Kuriakose
1Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. 2Department of Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India(Published)
13th Asia-pacific conference on transportation and the environment (APTE), Singapore 2024
Car use in India: Factors influencing the choice to be chauffeur-driven
Book Chapter : Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Purnima Kumari Chowdhury1, Tarak Nath Mazumder1 , Sumana Gupta1
1Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.(In Press)
13th Asia-pacific conference on transportation and the environment (APTE), Singapore 2024
User’s acceptance towards autonomous vehicle from the perspective of driver-driven personal car users in India: A mobilities approach
Book Chapter : Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Purnima Kumari Chowdhury1, Tarak Nath Mazumder1 , Sumana Gupta1
1Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.(In Press)
2nd Infrastructure and Built Environment: Towards Sustainable and Resilient Societies, India 2024
Implications for Autonomous Vehicle Acceptance: Learnings from the Cultural Practice of Driver-Assisted Car Use in India
Book Chapter : Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Purnima Kumari Chowdhury1, Tarak Nath Mazumder1 , Sumana Gupta1
1Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.(In Press)
Publication Under Supervision
10th Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management, India 2024
Measuring city bus accessibility levels using PTAL approach: A case of Indore
Book Chapter : Recent Advancements in Sustainable and Safe Transportation Infrastructure
Ankita Yadav1, Purnima Kumari Chowdhury1
1Department of Transport Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal 462030, India (In Press)
11th Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management, India 2024
Exploring Trip Chaining Behavior in a Tier-2 City: Evidence from Bhubaneswar
Priyanka Sinha1, Purnima Kumari Chowdhury1
1Department of Transport Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal 462030, India (Accepted For Publication)
11th Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management, India 2024
A SEM for evaluating First and Last-Mile Connectivity Factors Influencing Delhi MRT Ridership: A Comparative Study of Interchange and Terminal Stations
Shweta Sinha1, Purnima Kumari Chowdhury1
1Department of Transport Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal 462030, India (Accepted For Publication)
11th Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management, India 2024
Cost of Ownership Analysis of New Electric vs. Second-Hand ICE Two-Wheelers in Food Delivery Services: A Case Study of Lucknow
Ankita Yadav1, Purnima Kumari Chowdhury1
1Department of Transport Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal 462030, India (Accepted For Publication)
11th Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management, India 2024
Does Nudging affects metro ridership in Jaipur?
Harshita Gupta1, Nikhil Ranjan Mandal1, Purnima Kumari Chowdhury2
1Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India
2Department of Transport Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal 462030, India (Accepted For Publication)
1st International Conference on Building Engineering and Management (ICBEM 2025), India
Challenges and Innovation in Managing India’s Urban Transport Infrastructure: A Case Based study
Priyanka Sinha1, Shweta Tiwari, Purnima Kumari Chowdhury1
1Department of Transport Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal 462030, India. (Accepted For Publication)
1st International Conference on Building Engineering and Management (ICBEM 2025), India
Understanding Delays in Metro Rail Projects in India: Challenges and Solution
Priyanka Sinha1, Gunasekar Pavan Kalyan1, Purnima Kumari Chowdhury1
1Department of Transport Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal 462030, India. (Accepted For Publication)
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Department of Transport Planning , SPA, Neelbad Road, Bhauri , Bhopal 462030 M.P (India)
Phone Number: 0755-2526800
Email: hodtplm@spabhopal.ac.in
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