Research Interest

• Traffic engineering

• Traffic flow modelling and simulation

Research Overview

With India's growing economy, the traffic has also grown significantly, resulting in overstressed road networks and infrastructure, causing frequent traffic jams and congestion. This increases travel time, fuel consumption, and air and noise pollution. Mathematical models were developed to simulate and predict the evolution of different traffic phenomena. Such models are termed traffic flow models and can aid traffic system planning and management.

A disordered, multi-model traffic system has distinct features and a set of attributes that share the same right of way. This results in traffic with haphazard movements having weak/absent lane discipline. Hence, vehicle lateral movements become significant, and 1D traffic flow models developed may not be able to approximate such traffic. Though few studies have been done to model lane-free traffic, further research is needed. Thus, my research objective is to develop traffic flow models for ordered and disordered traffic while assuming traffic as a continuum.