Awards and Recognition

Awards and Recognition

  1. Best Paper Award at 14th International Conference on Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries (TPMDC), IIT-Bombay, India. December 19-21, 2022.
  2. Two Best Paper Awards at in 4th Conference on Recent Advances in Traffic Engineering (RATE), SVNIT, Surat. November 11-12, 2022.
  3. Best Paper Award at 2nd International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Conception to Execution, IIT Roorkee. 14 – 17 September 2022.
  4. Appointed as Academic Editor in the Journal of Advanced Transportation from 25th May 2021.
  5. Arkatkar has been selected as TUM Global Visiting Professor for 2021 at Technische Universitat Munich (TUM). Germany.
  6. Associate Editor: IET Intelligent Transportation Systems, A Wiley Journal (2021).
  7. Appointed as Guest Editor for hosting the special issues in journals: (i) Journal of Transportation Engineering, Systems-Part A, and (ii) Journal of Designs (2021).
  8. Featured Paper. A paper entitled “Intersection Sight Distance Characteristics of Turbo Roundabouts” by A Salwan, S. Easa, N Raju, and S. Arkatkar was selected as the Featured Paper on the cover of an issue of the Designs Journal, 5, 2021.
  9. First Place, CSCE Undergraduate Student Presentation Competition, Transportation Specialty Conference, Annual Conference of Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), held virtually during May 26-29, 2021. Paper title: “Evaluating Improvements to All-Way Stop Controlled Intersection: Case Study in Niagara-on-the-Lake.” Capstone group: Natalie Farag, Farah Choudhury, Yichen Cao, Diana Ponce, and Christine Del Rosario. Industry Client: Sulaf Alkarawi and Manny Rataul (Municipality of Niagara). Advisors: Said Easa and Shriniwas Arkatkar.
  10. Appointed as the Vice President of Transportation Research Group of India from 28th May 2021.
  11. Best Paper Award at the 8th Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management (CTSEM 2020) during December 26-27 August 2021.
  12. Best Paper Award at 6th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG-2021), Tiruchirappalli (Trichy), Tamil Nadu, India. 14-17 December 2021.
  13. Featured Paper. A paper entitled “Reliability Analysis of Intersection Sight Distance at Roundabouts,” by S. Easa, Y. Ma, S. Liu, Y. Yanqun, and S. Arkatkar was selected as the Featured Paper on the cover of a special issue of the Infrastructures Journal, 5(8), 2020.
  14. Adjunct Professor at Department of Civil Engineering, Ryerson university (2020).
  15. Best Paper Award at the 7th Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management (CTSEM 2020) during December 29-30 December 2020.
  16. Invited Expert (resource person), Conference on Safe Mobility and Regional Connectivity, 20-22, January 2020, Delhi,
  17. Invited Expert (resource person), for workshops and training programs in Road Safety Audit. By Asian Institute of Transport Development (AITD), 2020.
  18. Session Chair (F4-OS2: Public Transportation Integration with Active Travel), 15th World Conference of Transportation Research (WCTR2019), 26-30, May 2019, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.
  19. Session Chair (F4-OS2: Public Transportation Integration with Active Travel), 15th World Conference of Transportation Research (WCTR2019), 26-30, May 2019, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.
  20. First, Second and Third Best paper awards at a National Conference organized by Indian Road Congress (IRC-Y) held at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur (2019).
  21. Best Paper Award at 5th CTRG International Conference organized by Transportation Research Group of India at Bhopal (2019).
  22. Best Paper Award at 12th Urban Mobility of India organized by the Institute of Urban Transport (India), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (2019).
  23. Session Chair, 5th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India, 18 to 21 December 2019, Bhopal.
  24. Guest editor for a special issue on the Transportation Letters; The International Journal of Transportation Research (Taylor and Francis); RATE-2018.
  25. Co-Chair, 4th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India, 17-20, December 2017, IITB-
  26. Session Chair, 4th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India, 17-20 December 2017, IITB-Mumbai.
  27. Session Chair: 9th Urban Mobility India, Research Symposium, 8-12 November 2016, Institute of Urban Transport (India), Gandhinagar.
  28. Session Chair: 11th International Conference of Eastern Asia Society for Transport Studies, 11-14 September 2015, Cebu, Philippines.
  29. Session Chair, 3rd Conference of Transportation Research Group of India, 17-20 December 2015, Kolkata.
  30. Guest editor for a special issue on the Transportation Letters; The International Journal of Transportation Research (Taylor and Francis); RATE-2015.
  31. Expert member, E. (Civil- Transportation Engineering) Curriculum Workshop, PDPU, Ahmedabad.
  32. Associate member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies (YSGS), Ryerson
  33. Academic Editor: Journal of Advanced Transportation, A Wiley and Hindwai collaborative
  34. Associate Editor: Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research, A Taylor & Francis Journal.
  35. Achieved First Rank in Tech. (Urban Planning) course, Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur, Maharashtra, in all the semesters.
  36. Indian Roads Congress Medal for Outstanding Paper on Road Research sponsored by Bihar PWD. Paper Title “Enhancing the Accuracy of Estimation of Passenger Car Unit for Vehicles of Heterogeneous Traffic,” published in Highway Research
  37. Indian Roads Congress Commendation Certificate for Paper Title- “Effect of Upgrade and its length on PCU of Vehicles in Heterogeneous Traffic,” published in Highway Research
  38. Best Paper Award in the Student Symposium on Research in Civil Engineering (SSRCE-09), IIT Madras,
  39. Best Poster Award in the 4th Conference of Transportation Research Group (TRG) of India held at IIIT Bombay.
  40. Member, Supra Institutional Network Project (SINP) Development of Indo- Highway Capacity Manual (HCM), CSIR- Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi with funding from Planning Commission of India under 12th Five Year.
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