Traffic and Transport Planning

Traffic and Transport Planning

  • Coordinator: Prof. Tripta Goyal
  • Co-Coordinator: Prof. Pardeep Kumar Gupta
  • Members: Prof Sovina Sood

The main activity of the group is to contribute in the following areas

  • Study for intersection improvement 
  • Study for possible implementation of BRT system 
  • Feasibility study for evolving needed traffic regulations  
  • Study for Parking solutions in selected areas

Journals /Publications:

  • M. Kumar and T. Goyal, Comparative Study of Up gradation of Highways, ‘Indian Highways’ Vol 37, No.3, November 2011, 9-19, , The Indian Roads Congress, New Delhi
  • T. Goyal and A. Sood, Revenue Losses at Signalized Intersections on the Chandigarh Road Network – A case study, ‘Indian Highways’ Vol 37, No.3, March 2009, 9-19, The Indian Roads Congress, New Delhi
  • N.M. Sharma and T. Kumari Goyal, Drainage Problems in Hill Roads and their Remedial Measures – A Case Study, ‘Indian Highways’ Vol 37, No.2, February 2009, 41-54, The Indian Roads Congress, New Delhi
  •  V. Chaudhary and T. Kumari Goyal, Cost Reduction Strategy for a Rigid Pavement, Journal of New Building Materials & Construction World, Vol 11, Issue 3, September 2005, 64-68, New Delhi
  • V. Chaudhary and T. Kumari Goyal, Behaviour of Fly ash Brick Masonry in Compression, Journal of New Building Materials & Construction World, Vol. 10, Issue 7, Jan 2005, 132-135, New Delhi
  • T. Goel, Urban Bus Transit System in Delhi – An Assessment of Quality of Service, Indian Journal of Transport Management, Vol 24, No. 5, May 2000, 389-394, Central Institute of Road Transport, Pune
  • A.K. Gupta and T. Goel, The Efforts in Privatization and Deregulation in Urban mass Transportation Facilities in A Major Developing Country, IRTDA Journal, Vol LXIV, No. 6, June 1995, CIRT Pune   

Papers in Conference Proceedings (International/National)

  • K. Singh and T. Goyal, CVIS- A Revolution in Transportation System, National Conference on SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION USING ITS, February 16-17, 2012, SPCET, Avadi, Channai 
  • R.K. Khitoliya, T. Kumari and Kalsis, Effective Implementation of Law – A must for Sustainable Development, National Conference on ‘Recent Trends in Highways and Bridges, RTHB 2005’, Feb 18-19, 2005, 233-245, TIET Patiala 
  • R.K. Khitoliya, T. Kumari and S. Manish, Study of Environmental Issues for Sustainability of Highway Project at Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, Eighteenth Indian Engineering Congress, ‘Role of Engineers in All-round Development of the nation’, IE (India), Lucknow (U.P.) 
  • A.K Gupta, and T. Goel, Urban Bus Transit Systems and the Sustainable Urban growth – An Indian Scenario, International Conference on ‘Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (CENSUSTAD)’, Feb 13-15, 1997, 77-84, , UOR Roorkee 
  • T. Goel and A.K. Gupta, Coordination of Urban Public Transport – An Indian Scenario, 7th International Conference on ‘Urban Transport in Developing Countries (CODATU-VII)’, Vol II, Feb 12-16, 1996, V-47 to V-54, New Delhi 
  • A.K. Gupta, and T. Goel, Privatisation in Urban Public Transport and Related Road Safety Aspects, International Conference on ‘Roads and Road Transport (ICORT-95)’, Vol II, Dec 11-14, 1995,979-986, New Delhi, New Age International Publishers, New Delhi
  • A.K. Gupta, and T. Goel, Urban Public Transport – Need of Coordination, Dedicated Conference on ‘Advanced Transportation Systems’ at 28th ISATA, September 18-22, 1995, Stuttgard, Germany 
  • A.K. Gupta, and Goel Tripta, Role of Privatization in Urban Public Transport, Complete reference7th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), July 16-21, 1995, Sydney, Australia 

Panel title

  • A. Goel and T. Goyal, A study of Traffic Characteristics of Railway Over Bridge on NH-64 in Rajpura, Punjab, National Seminar on Sustainable Lifelines: Transportation Planning and Management, organized by Guru Ramdas School of Planning, GNDU Amritsar in collaboration with Punjab Regional Centre, ITPI Chandigarh 
  • T. Goyal, A. Vahno Ne Bigara Traffic Ka Roop (Hindi) An Article, Punjab Kesri Newspaper dated April 14, 2010 
  • Goyal Tripta and Chaudhari GM, Towards a New Vision of Targeted Reduction in Road Accidents in India, All India Seminar on ‘Safety on Roads’ organized
  • N. Mani and T. Goyal, Preventive maintenance of drainage system in Hill roads, National seminar on ROADS 2007 organized by The Institute of Engineers (India) at Belgaum, Karnataka, March 1-2, 2007, 269-275. 
  • M. Aggarwal, T. Goyal and V. Verma, Cost analysis of road accidents, National seminar on ROADS 2007 organized by The Institute of Engineers (India) at Belgaum, Karnatka, March 1-2, 2007, 
  • T. Kumari and J. Bhatia, Road Safety Concerns in Hilly Terrain – A Case Study of NH-21, National Seminar STEM-04, CED, M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Feb 2004, 135-141, Allied Publishers Pvt Ltd. 
  • Goel Tripta, Identification of Accident-Prone Locations and GIS applications, National Seminar on ‘Challenges for Road Transportation in 21st Century CIRT 2001’, Feb 23-24, 2001, 387-395, TIET Patiala