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Panel Discussion on Smart Data Management for Healthy Cities during a Seminar on Decarbonizing Urban Transport Using ITMS Data, The Infravision Foundation and Efkon, Apr 2025, New Delhi
Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur bestows the Young Achiever’s Award (Academic & Research Excellence) upon Dr. Amit Agarwal. He is a distinguished alumnus of the 2009 batch of Civil Engineering (B.Tech).
Chaired a Panel Discussion on Smart Solutions to the Challenges Faced by Hilly Towns specifically Nainital, Champawat, Mussoorie, Almora, Pauri and Haldwani, at State Institute of Urban Development, Dr. R.S. Tolia Uttarakhand Academy of Administration, Nainital, Mar 2025.
Delivered a lecture on “Role of Artificial Intelligence in Transport Sector” at 162nd International Training Programme on “Use of Data Analytics & Emerging Technologies in Audit”, iCISA, CAG, Noida, Feb 2025.
A delegation from Efkon India visited our group at IIT Roorkee to discuss potential collaboration between the two organizations.
Dr. Eeshan Bhaduri from University of Leeds visited us and gave enlightening talks on “’Understanding the value of (in)-convenience, sharing and time in the context of autonomous vehicles” and “Investigating the global perception of autonomous vehicles using social media data”.
Special Recognition to team TrafficEye (Mr. Ritesh Singh, Mr. Karthik Krishnan, Mr. Utkarsh Agarwal, Prof. Amit Agarwal) at IEEE Bengaluru Mobility Challenge 2024, IISc Bangalore.
Best Paper Award for the paper titled "Object Distance estimation from a single moving camera for advanced driver assistance system" in 10th IEEE CONECCT, 2024 International Conference, at IISc, Bangalore
Media Coverage of our product "CrowdEye" Amar Ujala June 17, 2024
Media Coverage of our product "WiCATS" Dainik Jagran March 17, 2024
Advertisement dated June 06, 2024: interview for the position(s) of Project Associate in Dept. of Civil Engg. (Last date to apply: June 22, 2024 by 11:00) (Closed)
Prof. Amit Agarwal delivered Guest Lecture title "Monitoring of Exposure to Air Pollution using Low-Cost Sensors" at NIT Warangal on Dec 2023.
Advertisement dated March 26, 2024: interview for the position(s) of JRF in Dept. of Civil Engg. (Last date to apply: April 07, 2024 by 13:00) (Closed)
Advertisement dated Sep 20, 2023: interview for the position(s) of Project Associate (RA) in Dept. Humanities and Social Scicnccs. (Last date to apply: Oct 05, 2023 by 11:00 AM) (Closed)
Mr. Anurag Thombre presented the work title: "Prediction of Unknown Striking vehicles in Motorized Two-Wheeler Hit-and-Run Crashes in Delhi" at International conference of the Eastern Asia society for transportation studies 2023 (EASTS 2023).
Mr. Rupam Fedujwar got the second prize in the poster presentation under the "Machine Learning Category" in the "Young Research Conclave at CSIR-CRRI New Delhi. The titled of the work was “In-vehicle Occupancy Prediction using Artificial Neural Network Algorithm”
Mr. Anuj Nautiyal got the First prize in the poster presentation under the " Urban Transportation and Planning" in the "Young Research Conclave at CSIR-CRRI New Delhi. The titled of the work was “Inferring mobility patterns from smart phone GPS data”
Mr Rupam Fedujwar, Mr Anuj Nautiyal and Ms Rashmi Choudhary presented their respective work at the "Young Research Conclave” 2023 at CSIR-CRRI New Delhi.
Advertisement dated July 06, 2023: interview for the position(s) of Research Associate (RA) in Dept. of Civil Engg. (Last date to apply: July 24, 2023 by 11:00 AM) (Closed)
Prof. Amit Agarwal delivered Guest Lecture title "Navigating Urban Mobility Challenges: Perspectives of Passenger and Operator for Effective Solutions", at IIIT Hyderabad under iHub Data, Mobility Quarterly Meet on June 16, 2023.
Prof. Amit Agarwal delivered Guest Lecture title "Mapping Dynamic Air Pollution Information to the Choices of Travelers: Towards Sustainable Transport", NIT Calicut, Short-Term Training Program on Recent Developments and Advancements in Transportation Engineering (RDATE 2023) dated: March 14, 2023.
The work titled "Perception of Commuters Towards Air Quality in Delhi", got published in Journal of Transport & Health
Ms. Nidhi Kathait presented the work "User intention to adopt public bicycle sharing system in an Indian city" at 102nd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting (TRB 2023).
Ms Rashmi Choudhary presented the work "Impact of grid size on spatiotemporal prediction of fine Particulate Matter" at the 102nd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting(TRB 2023).
Mr. Rupam Fedujwar presented the work "A systematic review on public transport crowding valuation studies" at 15th International Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transport (CASPT2022).
Mr. Arpit Shrivastava presented the work "Deep-Learning based Model for prediction of crowding in public transit system" at 15th International Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transport (CASPT2022).
The work titled "Psychological Impacts on the Travel Behaviour post-COVID-19", got published in Asian Transport Studies.
The work titled "Multimodal routing framework for urban environments considering real-time air quality and congestion", got published in Atmospheric Pollution Research.
Kabir Kedia Sanjali Batra won the ‘Safe rohTECH Challenge 2.0’ for the solution ‘Automated Tool for Road Traffic Data Collection and Road Safety analysis’. The team was mentored by Anurag Thombre and Prof. Amit Agarwal.

Research Projects

Integration of Advanced Video Analytics (VA) solutions with ANPR

Research Project

PI EFKON 2025



CrowdEye: A Wireless, Embedded Computer-Vision Based Crowd Alert and Management System

Research Project

PI UCOST 2024



Wireless Real-Time Passenger Counting System

Research Project

PI TIH IIT Indore 2024-25




Studying the impact of Automation and Digitalization for Characterising and Accessing the Driver behavior in naturalistic Driving Environment using Eye Tracker

Research Project

PI CSIR 2023-24

Ride2Safety: Identification & Quantification of Rash Riding among MTW Riders.


Research Project

PI IIIT Hyderabad 2023-24

Embedding Crowding to Passenger Information System using electronic ticketing data


Research Project

Co-I TIH IIT Kgp 2023-25

Intelligent Predictive and Prescriptive Systems for Traffic and Pavement Condition Management in a Smart City

Research Project

Co-I TIH IIT Roorkee 2022-25

Advanced Transport Modeling and Simulation for National Highways in India

Research Project

PI IAHE, MoRTH 2021 - 24

Networked Adaptive Traffic Signal Control in IoT-Enabled Smart Cities

Research Project

Co-I TIH ISI Kolkata 2022 - 24


Deployment of T-CPS for Intelligent Mobility and Efficient Traffic Control in Smart Cities: A Promising Future

Research Project

PI TIH Roorkee, Punjab Police, SAFE Society 2021 - 24

Mapping Dynamic Air Pollution Information to the Choices of the Travelers : Towards Sustainable Transport

Research Project

PI SERB 2020 - 22

Synthetic Travel Demand Generation for Jaipur

Research Project

Co-I RTU Kota 2019 - 20


Scenario Calibration by Integrating Optimization Techniques

Research Project

PI IIT Roorkee 2019 - 21


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Thesis


Research Interests

Intelligent Transportation Systems

Public Transport

Air Pollution Exposure

Active Mobility

Travel Demand Modeling

Multi-Agent Transp. Simulation

Shared Mobility

Teaching

Urban Mass Transit Systems

CEN-563
  • PG Course
  • Autumn Semester
Course Content

Transportation Planning

CEN-664
  • PG Course
  • Spring Semester
Course Content

Intelligent Transportation System

CEL-203
  • UG Course
  • Spring Semester
Course Content

Research Team

Dr. Amit Agarwal

Associate Dean Corporate Interaction, IIT Roorkee
Associate Professor at CED, IIT Roorkee
Joint Faculty at MFSDSAI, IIT Roorkee
Founder @ PariMitra Pvt Ltd

Anurag Thombre

PhD Scholar

Nidhi Kathait

Phd Scholar

Vikram Singh

Phd Scholar

Rashmi Choudhary

Phd Scholar

Rupam Fedujwar

PhD Scholar

Nishtha Rawat

PhD Scholar

Anuj Nautiyal

PhD Scholar

K. Prathyusha

PhD Scholar

Rajat Kumar

PhD Scholar

Neelima C. Vijay

Junior Research Fellow

Karthik Krishnan O

Project Associate

Edwin Martin

Project Associate

Ankit Verma

Project Officer

Nitin Kumar

Project Attendant


Former Students

  • Soorya Narayanan, B. Tech. 2021-2025

  • Santhosh Kumar B V, M. Tech, 2022-2024

  • Jatin Bhandari, M. Tech, 2021-2023
  • Vineet Gupta, M. Tech, 2021-2023

  • Chinmay Agarwal, M. Tech, 2020-2022
  • Samsoor Mohammand, M. Tech, 2020-2022

  • Kapil Kumar Meena, M. Tech, 2019-2021
  • Rajkumar Chotia, M. Tech, 2019-2021