Infrastructure and Built Environment for Sustainable and Resilient Societies

Part I: Multimodal Urban Transport.- Chapter 1: Transportation Hub as an Urban Magnet: a Case of Nagpur Metro.- Chapter 2: Identification of Indicators for Shared E-mobility Plan in a Tier-II City: a Case of Bhopal.- Chapter 3: Identifying Potential for Non-motorized Transportation: a Case of Siliguri.- Chapter 4: Potential of Alternative Technology for Urban Freight - a Case of Dehradun.- Chapter 5: Assessing Non-motorized Mobility Planning: a Case of Indore City.- Part II: Sustainable Transport Infrastructure Development.- Chapter 6: Road Safety Assessment of Hill Roads: a Case Study of Dehradun, Mussoorie.- Chapter 7: Why Pedestrians Do Not Walk on Walkways? Assessment of Pedestrian Infrastructure Based on Pedestrian Behaviors.- Chapter 8: Driver Skill Profiling Using Machine Learning.- Chapter 9: Investigating Role of Range Anxiety in Electrification of Shared Mobility.- Part III: Smart and Inclusive Habitat.- Chapter 10: Holistic Age-friendly Communities: a Comprehensive Literature Review on Factors Affecting the Elderly Experience in Built Environments.- Chapter 11: Spatial Distribution of Human Development Indicators Using Census Data: Case of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration.- Chapter 12: Are the Gated Mass High-rise Housing Developments Livable? A Case of Ahmedabad, India.- Chapter 13: Assessing Urban Morphology and Spatial Histories Through Space Syntax: Case of Varanasi, India.- Part IV: Spatial Informatics in Urban Planning.- Chapter 14: Quantitative Assessment of Urban Road Network Hierar-chy, Topology and Walkable Access Using Open-source GIS Tools.

Dr. Arkopal Kishore Goswami is an Associate Professor, and currently the Chairperson of the Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management, IIT Kharagpur. He received his PhD from University of Virginia in Civil Engineering in the year 2008. His research interests are in planning & design of sustainable urban transport infrastructure in the context of organic urban forms and mixed traffic environment. He has collaborated with researchers from around the globe, including Japan, Germany, UK, Colombia, and USA. He has been a recepient of multiple sponsored research grants from national and international agencies. He is a member of the IRC committee on Urban Roads (H-8), and an Executive Committee Board Member of the Transportation Research Group (TRG), India. He mentors the Multimodal Urban Sustainable Transportation (MUST) laboratory in IIT Kharagpur, the research outputs from which have been published in international peer reviewed journals of repute. Dr. Goswami has been conferred with the Faculty Excellence Award 2022 by IIT Kharagpur.

Dr. Bharath H. Aithal is a Faculty (Assistant Professor) at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He Obtained his B.E from Bangalore university in 2009 and Doctoral degree from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 2015. He has published 55 Journal papers, 14 Book chapters, 120 Conference proceedings, and 40 Technical reports and authored three books. He has won several awards such as Schlich Prize, IEI Young engineer award and Indian National Geospatial award to name a few. Currently he is an Academic editor in Plos climate. 

Dr. Swati Maitra is currently an Assistant Professor in Ranbir & Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management, IIT Kharagpur. She obtained her PhD from IIT Kharagpur, M.Tech. from IIT Bombay and B.E. from Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur (presently Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur) in Civil Engineering.