Civil Engineering Department

Driver Behavior Modeling, microscopic traffic flow modelling
Cognitive ergonomics
Traffic safety Evaluation
Naturalistic driving, physiological data in driver behaviour monitoring
AI and ML applications in traffic flow modelling

Driver Behavior Modeling, microscopic traffic flow modelling

Cognitive ergonomics

Traffic safety Evaluation

Naturalistic driving, physiological data in driver behaviour monitoring

AI and ML applications in traffic flow modelling

Award	Awarding Organisation	Year
Best Doctoral Thesis Award	Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	2021
Travel Grant	CSIR-HRDG	2020
International Travel Support Grant	DST, New Delhi	2019
Assam Government Scholarship	Dept. of Higher Education, Govt. of Assam	2014
Arundoram Borooah Award	Planning and Development Department, Govt. of Assam	2006

From	To	Designation	Organisation
Feb 2021	Continuing	Assistant Professor	Civil Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Degree	Subject	University	Year
Ph.D.	Transportation Engineering	Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati	2020
M. Tech.	Transportation Systems Engineering	Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati	2015
B. Tech.	Civil Engineering	National Institute of Technology, Silchar	2012

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1.

Maurya, A. K., Dey, S. and Das, S. (2015). Speed and time headway distribution under mixed traffic condition. Journal of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies. DOI: 10.11175/easts.11.1774

2.

Das, S., Maurya, A. K. and Budhkar, A. K. (2017). Determinants of time headway in staggered car-following conditions. Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research. DOI: 10.1080/19427867.2017.1386872

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Das, S. and Maurya, A. K. (2017). Time headway analysis for Four-Lane and Two-Lane Roads.. Transportation in Developing Economies. DOI: 10.1007/s40890-017-0039-8

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Das, S. and Maurya, A. K. (2018). Bivariate modeling of time headways in mixed traffic streams: a copula approach.. Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research. DOI: 10.1080/19427867.2018.1537209

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Das, S. and Maurya, A. K. (2018). Multivariate analysis of microscopic traffic variables using copulas in staggered car-following conditions. Transportmetrica A: Transport Science. DOI: 10.1080/23249935.2018.1441200

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Das, S. and Maurya, A. K. (2018). Modelling of motorised two-wheelers: a review of the literature. Transport Reviews. DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2017.1317049

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Das, S. and Maurya, A. K. (2019). Defining Time-to-Collision Thresholds by the Type of Lead Vehicle in Non-Lane Based Traffic Environments. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2019.2946001

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Das, S., and Maurya, A. K. (2019). Modelling maneuverability of motorised two-wheelers during filtering in urban roads. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. DOI: 10.1177/0361198119842818

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Das, S., Budhkar, A., Maurya, A. K. and Maji, A. (2019). Multivariate Analysis on Dynamic Car-Following Data of Non-lane-Based Traffic Environments.. Transportation in Developing Economies. DOI: 10.1007/s40890-019-0085-5

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Das, S., Raju, N., Maurya, A. K. and Arkatkar, S. (2020). Evaluating lateral interactions of motorized two-wheelers using multi-gene symbolic genetic programming. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. DOI: 10.1177/0361198120934476

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Das, S. and Maurya, A. K. (2020). Pore acceptance predictions of motorized two-wheelers at urban mid-block sections. Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning and Operations. DOI: 10.1080/15472450.2020.1735385

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Mahapatra, G., Das, S. and Maurya, A. K. (2021). Joint distribution modelling of vehicle dynamic parameters using copula. Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research. DOI: 10.1080/19427867.2021.1897936

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Mishra, A., Das, S., Singh, D. and Maurya, A. K. (2021). Effect of COVID-19 lockdown on noise pollution levels in an Indian city: a case study of Kanpur. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-13872-z

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Das, S., Boruah, A., Banerjee, A., Raoniar, R., Nama, S., and Maurya, A. K. (2021). Impact of COVID-19: A Radical Modal Shift from Public to Private Transport Mode.. Transport Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.05.005

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Das, S., and Maurya, A.K. (2022). A car-following model considering driver’s instantaneous reaction delay in non-lane-based traffic environments. Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems. DOI: 10.1061/JTEPBS.0000709

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Das, S., Maurya, A. K., and Dey, A. (2023). A recurrent neural network model for predicting two-leader car-following behavior. Transportation Letters. DOI: 10.1080/19427867.2023.2205190

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Dey, A. and Das, S. (2023). Model for Predicting Lateral Shifts and Driving Style of Motorized Two-Wheelers. Transportation Research Record. DOI: 10.1177/03611981231203

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Banerjee, A., Das, S. and Maurya, A. K. (2024). Behavioural characteristics influencing walking speed of pedestrians over elevated facilities: A case study of India. Transport Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2024.01.002

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Barat, A. and Das, S. (2024). A systematic literature review of driver behaviour in blind spot: Assessing risk and influencing factors for enhanced ergonomics in vehicle design. Ergonomics. DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2024.2350667

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Barat, A. and Das, S. (2025). Mirror-based perception: are male drivers accurately estimating the distance and speed of motorized two-wheelers?. Traffic Injury Prevention. DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2025.2494737

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Dey, A. and Das, S (2025). Association between general driving attitudes, stressful driving and coping strategies of drivers: An effect mechanism analysis using PLS-SEM. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2025.07.025

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Barat, A and Das, S (2025). Visual Perception and Ergonomic Influences: Assessing Blind Spot Variability and Distance Estimation Through Side-View Mirrors. Ergonomics. DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2025.2538712

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Kar, M., Sadhukhan, S., Parida, M. and Das, S. (2025). Will you instead park your vehicle and ride the metro? Analysing the preferences of Drive-alone users for their daily commute in Delhi, India. Transportation. DOI: 10.1007/s11116-025-10660-3

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Dhiman, A., Das, S., and Chandra, S. (2025). Analysis of Lateral Gap between Motorized Two-Wheelers in Urban Mixed Traffic Conditions. Journal of Transportation Engineering Part A: Systems, ASCE. DOI: 10.1061/JTEPBS.TEENG-9101

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Dey, A. and Das, S. (2026). A Mixed-Effect Ordered Logit Model for Investigating Drivers’ Perceived Frustration Levels in Complex Traffic Environments. Transaportation Research Record. DOI: 10.1177/03611981251405247

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1. Title:- Driver behavior modelling considering human factors in disordered traffic systems
Sponsor: FIG, IIT Roorkee	Sanctioned Year: 2021-22	Amount: ₹ 20.00 Lakhs	Role: PI

2. Title:- Integrating AI and ML for real-time driver behavior recognition
Sponsor: DSIR, Ministry of Science and Technology	Sanctioned Year: 2024-25	Amount: ₹ 14.65 Lakhs	Role: PI

3. Title:- Motorised Two-Wheeler Behaviour and Safety: Risk Assessment and Mitigation
Sponsor: CSIR-EMR	Sanctioned Year: 2024-25	Amount: ₹ 31.11 Lakhs	Role: PI

4. Title:- Path Rakshak- A System for Enhancing Public Transport Safety with Real-time Ambiance and Driver Monitoring
Sponsor: IIT Mandi iHub & HCi Foundation	Sanctioned Year: 2024-25	Amount: ₹ 34.58 Lakhs	Role: PI

5. Title:- Warrants for segregated traffic lanes for safety of motorised two-wheelers
Sponsor: CSIR-ASPIRE	Sanctioned Year: 2024-25	Amount: ₹ 28.00 Lakhs	Role: PI

6. Title:- An Integrated Framework for Conflict Risk and Workload Assessment of Commercial Bus Drivers Using Physiological and Naturalistic Driving Data
Sponsor: ANRF- ARG	Sanctioned Year: 2025-26	Role: PI

Designation	Organisation	From Period	To Period
OC Lab, Transportation Engineering Group		June 2025	Contd.
Member	Departmental Academic Programme Committee (DAPC)	August, 2024	Contd.
Member	Departmental Administrative Committee (DAC)	August, 2024	Contd.
Member	Ranking Analytics Committee	July 2021	2024
Faculty Representative	Placement and Internship Committee, CED	August, 2022	2024
Member	Time Table Committee	August, 2022	July, 2024
Member	Anti-Ragging Committee, CED	August 2022	July, 2024
Member	Department Safety Committee	June 2021	July 2022

S. No.	Membership
1.	Life Member of Indian Road Congress (IRC)
2.	Life Member of Transportation Research Group of India (TRG)
3.	Member of World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS)
4.	Member of IEEE

1.

Das, S., Chilukuri, B. R., Arkatkar, S. S. and Maurya, A. K. (2022). Driving Behavior Modeling in Mixed Traffic Conditions: Developments and Future Directions. Springer

2.

Dey, A., and Das, S. (2023). Influence of Time Pressure on Driver’s Response Time Under Stressed Conditions. 2771-0718

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S. No.	Project Title	Student Name	Co-Supervisor	Degree	Year
1.	Evaluating the Influence of Bus stops on Traffic Flow Characteristics of Disordered Systems	Niraj Kurmi		PG	2023

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S. No.	Topic	Scholar Name	Registration Year	Co-Supervisor
1.	An Integrated Driving Behaviour Model for Disorderly Traffic Combining Drivers’ Physiological Features	Arka Dey	2021
2.	Design standards to prioritize motorized two-wheelers on urban roads	Aditya Dhiman	2022	Satish Chandra
3.	Driver Performance Analysis on Hilly Roads	Shivam Sharma	2022
4.	Risk Assessment of Motorized Two-Wheeler Riders on Urban Roads	Anik Barat	2022

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S. No.	Topic	Scholar Name	Status	Awarded Year
1.	Planning and Design of Park &-Ride Facilities around Metro Stations	Manaswinee Kar	Awarded	2024

S. No.	Course Name	Course Code	Class Name	Semester & Year
1.	Airport Planning and Design	CEN-566	B. Tech. & M. Tech.	Autumn Semester 2023-24

S. No.	Title	Organisation	Date
1.	Filtering behavior of vehicles in Indian traffic streams	Reva University Bangalore	01-Mar-2021
2.	Vehicle-Following and Filtering Behavior of Vehicles in Disordered Traffic Environments	QIP ATIE at IIT Indore	04-May-2022

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1.

Das, S., Mahapatra, G. and Maurya, A.K. (2015). An empirical study of vehicle time headways for different roadway facilities. 3rd Conference of Transportation Research Group of India. Place: Kolkata

2.

Maurya, A.K., Das, S., Dey, S. and Nama, S. (2016). Study on speed and time-headway distributions on two-lane bidirectional road in heterogeneous traffic condition. 11th Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries, TPMDC 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2016.11.084 Page No: 428-437

3.

Mahapatra, G., Das, S. and Maurya, A.K. (2016). Effect of Sample size and Bin size on Heterogeneous Traffic Stream Speed and Time Headway Distributions. 14th World Conference on Transport Research Society. Place: Shanghai, China

4.

Budhkar, A. and Das, S. (2017). Finding Trend of advanced ticket booking in Indian railways. World Conference on Transport Research-WCTR 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.trpro.2017.05.492 Place: Shanghai Page No: 4822-4831

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Das, S., Budhkar, A.K., Maurya, A.K. and Maji, A. (2018). Multivariate analysis on dynamic car-following data of non-lane based traffic environments. Recent Advances in Traffic Engineering. DOI: 10.1007/s40890-019-0085-5 Place: SVNIT, Surat

6.

Das, S. (2019). Modelling filtering behavior of motorized two-wheelers and cars in disordered traffic systems using decision trees. World Conference on Transport Research - WCTR-Y 2019. Place: Mumbai

7.

Das, S. and Maurya, A. K. (2019). Modeling Maneuverability of Motorized Two-Wheelers during Filtering in Urban Roads. 98th Annual meeting of Transportation Research Board. DOI: 10.1177/0361198119842818 Place: Washington D.C.

8.

Das, S. and Maurya, A. K. (2019). Pore acceptance predictions of motorized two-wheelers at urban mid-block sections. 98th Annual meeting of Transportation Research Board. DOI: 10.1080/15472450.2020.1735385 Place: Washington D.C

9.

Das, S., Raju, N., Maurya, A.K. and Arkarkar, S. (2020). Evaluating lateral interactions of motorized two-wheelers using multi-gene symbolic genetic programming. 99th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board. DOI: 10.1177/0361198120934476 Place: Washington D.C.

10.

Singh, A. and Das, S. (2022). Group riding behavior of motorized two-wheelers in disordered traffic environments. Recent Advances in Traffic Engineering (RATE 22). Place: Surat, India

11.

Dey, A. and Das, S. (2023). Influence of Time Pressure on Driver’s Response Time under Stressed Conditions. International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2023). Place: California, USA

12.

Dey, A. and Das, S. (2023). Driving Behavior and Attitude of Car Drivers under Stressful Conditions: A Questionnaire-based Approach. 7th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India. Place: Surat, India

13.

Kurmi, N. and Das, S. (2023). Evaluating the Impact of Curbside Bus Stop on Lateral Characteristics and Speed of Vehicles in Mixed Traffic. 7th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-1037-2 Place: Surat, India

14.

Kar, M., Sadhukhan, S., Parida, M. and Das, S. (2023). Estimating Willingness-to-pay of Two-wheeler Drive-alone Users toward Shifting to Park-and-Ride. 7th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India. Place: Surat, India

15.

Dey, A., and Das, S. (2024). Assessing the Impact of Time Pressure on Stress Level Dynamics and Driving Behaviour. 103rd Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board.. Place: Washington D.C.

16.

Barat, A., and Das, S. (2025). A Hierarchical Multitask-Vision Transformer Approach for Driver Gaze Zone and Secondary Task Detection. 8th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India. Place: Guwahati

17.

Dhiman, A., Das, S., and Chandra, S. (2026). Investigating Safety Space of Motorized Two-Wheelers in Mixed Traffic on an Urban Road Using Drone Data (Accepted). 105th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board. Place: Washington, D.C.

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Patel, K., Dey, A., and Das, S. (2026). A Multimodal Framework for Driver Stress Detection Using Physiological Signals and Traffic Contextual Information Transportation Research Board (Accepted). 105th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board. Place: Washington, D.C.

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