Transport and Safety

Geetam Tiwari is the MoUD Chair Professor for Transport Planning at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and was a Adlerbretska Guest Professor for sustainable urban transport at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden  from 2007-2010. She obtained her B.Arch.  from the University of Roorkee and  Master of Urban Planning and Policy, and Ph.D. in Transport Planning and Policy, from the University of Illinois, Chicago. She has extensive research experience in dealing with transportation issues of special relevance to low income countries. These include development of bus systems and road designs that would make transportation efficient and safer. She has been working in the area of traffic and transport planning focusing on pedestrians, bicycles and public transport. She has published over 70 research papers on transportation planning and safety in national and international journals and peer reviewed seminar proceedings. She edited four books on transportation planning and road safety. She has received the International Velocity Falco Lecture Prize, Barcelona, Spain; the Stockholm Partnerships Award for local impact, innovative thinking and a potential for replication or transferability: a Centre for excellence grant from the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF); the IRTE & Prince Michaels Award for promoting road safety research and the LMA (Lucknow Management Association) Award for Woman Achiever, 2010. She is an Advisor to the Urban Age series of conferences coordinated by the London School of Economics since 2005.Dinesh Mohan is an Honorary Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi; he has been a Distinguished Professor at the Shiv Nadar University and continues as the Director of the Independent Council for Road Safety International. He serves on the Editorial Boards of two international journals dealing with safety. In the past he has worked at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Washington DC (1975-1978) and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (1971-1975). He has been a consultant on safety related matters to government departments in India, Nepal, Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Iraq and Libya; he has been a consultant  to the automotive industries including TELCO, Ashok Leyland, Volvo Trucks, Eicher Motors Ltd., Escorts Ltd., Maruti Udyog Ltd., SIAM, Bajaj Auto Ltd.  and to international organisations like the World Bank and WHO. His research focuses on transportation research (safety and pollution), human tolerance biomechanics, motor-vehicle safety, road traffic injuries, childhood injuries, effectiveness of automobile safety equipment, evaluation of injuries to cyclists and motorcyclists and motorcycle helmet design. He has been the recipient of many awards including the IRCOBI Bertil Aldman Award, and the Distinguished Alumnus Awards from the University of Delaware (USA) and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay (India).