Dr. Subhamay Gangopadhyay, Scientist G, has taken over as Director of CRRI, New Delhi with effect from May 29, 2009. Prior to taking over the charge as Director, Dr. S Gangopadhyay served as acting Director of the institute from Sep 2, 2008.
He has graduated in Civil Engineering (B.E) from University of Calcutta and mastered in Transportation System Engineering (M.Tech) from IIT, Kanpur. Dr. S Gangopadhyay obtained M.Sc. & Ph.D from University of New Brunswick, Canada under Commonwealth Scholarship Plan.
Dr. S Gangopadhyay joined as Scientist "B" at CRRI in 1979 and rose to become Director while holding the position of the Head of Traffic Engineering & Transportation Planning Division at CRRI. He has more than 29 years experience in the area of Traffic Engineering & Transportation Planning, Regional and Urban Travel Demand Modeling Traffic Flow Theory and Capacity Analysis, Road Traffic Safety, Urban Traffic Congestion and Environment Impact of Road Transport. He has coordinated wide range of traffic and transportation studies covering many cities in India.
He has successfully carried out a number of significant projects i.e., Comprehensive Traffic and Transportation Study for Mumbai, Surat, Amravati, Nagpur & Aizwal; Urban Road Traffic and Air Pollution in Major Metropolitan cities in India; Evaluation of Benefits after Implementation of Delhi Metro and Application of Intelligent Transport System in Delhi.
Dr. Gangopadhyay is a member of Traffic Safety and Management Committee for Government of India; Member of Technical Advisory Group - Sky Bus Metro of Konkan Railway; Member of the Technical Sub-group of Delhi Development Authority and in many other committees of Delhi and Central Government. He is also life member of Institute of Urban Transport (India), Indian Roads Congress (IRC) and Institution of Engineers (India). Dr. Gangopadhyay has published more than 55 research papers and about 50 technical reports. He has also guided a number of Ph.D and M.E students and has visited Canada, USA, Australia and Italy. |
