Advances in Water Resources and Transportation Engineering: Select Proceedings of TRACE 2020

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2020). The volume focuses on latest research works carried out in the area of water resources and transportation engineering.  The topics include technological intervention and solution for water security, sustainability in water resources and transportation infrastructure, crop protection, resilience to disaster like flood, hurricane and drought,  traffic congestion, transport planning etc. It aims to address broad spectrum of audience by covering inter-disciplinary innovative research and applications in these areas. It will be useful to graduate students, researchers, scientists, and practitioners working in water resources and transportation engineering domain.

Dr. Yusuf A. Mehta is professor in Department of Civil Engineering of Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering and has extensive experience in pavement systems and management. Dr. Mehta received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 1999 and and M.S. in Civil Engineering from The Oklahoma University in 1995. Dr. Mehta is a registered Professional Engineer in New Jersey. He has publications in refereed journals and international conferences. He has managed multiple projects of New Jersey Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration USDOT and New York State Department of Transportation. He received Aviation Research Award and New Jersey DOT Research Implementation Award in year 2012. He was recognized for his exemplary teaching by Mid-Atlantic American Society of Engineering Education in 2008. He received Louis J. Pignataro Memorial Transportation Engineering Education Award in 2013 for outstanding record of achievement in transportation engineering research, and undergraduate and graduate engineering education. He is Associate Editor of American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Transportation Engineering. He is part of Editorial Board, Modern Traffic and Transportation Engineering Research (MTTER). He is member of American Society of Civil Engineers, Transportation Research Board, American Society for Engineering Education and Association of Asphalt Paving Technologist.

Dr. Iacopo Carnacina is Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering at Liverpool John Moores University since year 2017.Prior to this he has been Lecturer and Researcher in River Engineering at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education within the department of Water Science and Engineering. In 2006 he obtained his master degree in Hydraulic, Transportation and Territory Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy. In 2010 he obtained his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the doctorate school of the University of Pisa “Leonardo da Vinci” Italy. Since 2007, he has also been a member of the professional body of Civil Engineers of the province of La Spezia, Italy. Previously, he was involved in the CARNOT/VITRE research project on sediment transportation of combined sewer networks using acoustic devices at the French Institute of science and technology for transport, development and networks (IFSTTAR). After that, he worked for more than 5 years at AIR Worldwide, a catastrophe modeller firm, where he developed fluvial, pluvial and storm surge stochastic numerical models for the continental United States, Brazil, China, Central Europe, UK and Japan. There, he also worked as model manager and scientific lead for the new North Sea storm surge model in collaboration with Deltares, which resulted in development of new solutions using Delft3D-Flexile Mesh.He is interested in local erosion in correspondence of hydraulic structures such as bridge, river training structures and dams, large scale numerical flood models and flood protection. He has also contributed to the study of sustainable river training structures, with focus on local erosion phenomena and morphology, design, energy dissipation and two phase flow development. His research focuses on the sustainable impact of hydraulic structures with focus micro-hydropower development in rural regions use of sustainable resource to optimize efficiency and minimize the environmental impact.

Prof. D. Nagesh Kumar is the Chairman, Centre for Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has been working in the Department of Civil Engineering IISc since May 2002. Earlier he worked in IIT, Kharagpur (1994-2002) and NRSC, Hyderabad (1992­1994). He obtained Ph.D (Engg) from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1992. He visited Utah State University, USA in 1999 for 6 months on BOYSCAST fellowship. He worked as Visiting Professor in Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Saint-Etienne,France, in 2012. His research interests include Climate Hydrology, Water Resources Systems, Climate Change Impact on Water Resources, ANN, Evolutionary Algorithms, Fuzzy logic, MCDM and Remote Sensing & GIS applications in Water Resources Engineering. He has published more than 170 papers in leading international journals and conferences in his research fields. He has co-authored three text books viz., “Multicriterion Analysis in Engineering and Management” published by PHI, New Delhi and “Floods in a Changing Climate: Hydrologic Modeling” published by Cambridge University Press, U.K. and “Hydroclimatic Teleconnection: Indian Perspective” published by Scholars' Press, Germany. He is Associate Editor for ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering and ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engg. He received the best associate editor award for ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering for the year 2014. He is in the Editorial Board of Open Hydrology Journal and Journal of Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing. He has been reviewer for more than 65 international journals including Water Resources Research and Journal of Hydrology. He received IBM faculty award for the year 2012 for his outstanding research in the field of modeling hydrologic extremes using microwave remote sensing. He is a member, Working Group on Climate Change, International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR), Spain. He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) and Indian Society for Hydraulics. He is a member of the AGU, IAHR, ASCE, IAHS (UK), IS-MCDM (USA) and Indian Society of Remote Sensing.

Dr. K. Ramachandra Rao is a professor in Department of Civil Engineering and Associate Faculty of Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is a Transportation Engineering specialist. After completing PhD in Transportation Engineering at IIT Kharagpur in 1998, he started his teaching career in Schoolof Engineering - University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa (formerly University of Durban-Westville). Subsequently, he worked in IIT Guwahati in Civil Engineering Department as Assistant Professor. Since 2003, he is working in IIT Delhi. Besides teaching and research, he is involved in various projects at national and international levels. He has published research papers in leading international journals and conferences in his research fields. The main focus area of his work during the past 5 years has been on development of traffic models in heterogeneous and safe environments. Besides, he is also working on improvements of Bus transport systems, road safety and low carbon mobility.

Dr. Madhuri Kumari received her PhD from The Energy Resource Institute (TERI) for her work on geostatistical modeling for prediction of rainfall in Indian Himalayas. She completed her M.Tech in Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University and B.E in Civil Engineering from Andhra University and was awarded Gold Medal. She is working as Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, U.P. She has vast industry experience of 11 years and academic experience of around 11 years. Her research works in area of rainfall modeling have been published in reputed journals. Her research interest is in application of geographical information system in solving problems related to water resources engineering.