Yawar Ali

Education

M.Tech. in Transportation Engineering & Planning from SVNIT, Surat, Gujarat

B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Area(s) of Interest:

Traffic Engineering

Road Safety

Driver Behavior

Background and Current Research

In his doctoral thesis, Yawar plans to work on Crash Prediction Modelling on Highways in India and is dedicated to helping improve Road Safety. The work will carry out modelling by conventional as well as pacing methods of Machine Learning.

Yawar has worked on traffic safety during his masters, and has also worked on Pedestrian Dynamics on Staircases during my internship at IIT Delhi.

He had various conference papers and a journal publication based on his previous work, which is listed below.

Journal

Yawar Ali, Ritvik Chauhan, Shriniwas S. Arkatkar, Ashish Dhamaniya, “Application of Empirical & Simulated Vehicle Trajectories in Risk Assessment at Signalized Intersection” Transportation Research Procedia – Accepted for publication

Conferences

Yawar Ali, Ritvik Chauhan, Shriniwas S. Arkatkar, Ashish Dhamaniya, “Application of Empirical & Simulated Vehicle Trajectories in Risk Assessment at Signalized Intersection” “24th EURO Working Group on Transportation Meeting” (EWGT 2021) held at Aveiro, Portugal on 8-10 September 2021.

Yawar Ali, Ritvik Chauhan, Shriniwas S. Arkatkar, Ashish Dhamaniya, “Conflict Risk Assessment at Signalized Intersection using Empirical and Simulated Vehicle Trajectories”, 13th International Conference “Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries (TPMDC 2020) held on 10-11 December 2020.

Yawar Ali, Vattsal Shah, Ritvik Chauhan, Shriniwas S. Arkatkar, Ashish Dhamaniya, “Conflict Assessment for Departing Vehicles at Signalized Intersection using Trajectory Data of Weak Lane Disciplined Traffic”, Second ASCE India Conference on “Challenges of Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure Development in Emerging Economies” (CRSIDE 2020) held at Novotel Kolkata on March 2-4, 2020. (Presented at Conference)

Year of Joining: 2020

Supervisor(s): 

Prof. Kalaga Ramachandra Rao, Prof. Ashish Bhaskar (QUT, Australia), and Prof. Niladri Chatterjee