People

Principal Investigator

Dr. Anmol Pahwa is an Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, with a particular focus in Transportation Engineering. He holds a BTech in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from University of California, Davis. Before joining IIT Madras, Dr. Anmol worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis. His research interests include sustainable transportation, freight transportation, city logistics, last-mile, and operations research. Dr. Anmol aspires to play the role of key academic stakeholder in transitioning India’s logistics sector towards a sustainable industry with economically viable, environment efficient, and socially equitable freight transportation capable of handling high-probability low-severity fluctuations, and a resilient industry that is robust, redundant, resourceful, and rapid against low-probability high-severity disruptions.

Research Group

Postdoc

PhD

• Blessy K: Sustainable urban freight management - Analysing consumer behaviour and last-mile distribution strategies in the Indian retail sector

• Stepehen Babu: Eco-driving freight on Indian highways: Assessing opportunities and challenges towards reducing transportation-related externalities

MS

• Krishnapriya Mohanan: Construction Consolidation Centres for Urban Construction Logistics

MTech

• Varun A: Assessing sustainability of last-mile distribution strategies for e-commerce deliveries in Chennai

BTech

• Arvind Vidhyashankar: Simulating a day in the life of Indians: Unravelling the travel patterns

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Hall of Fame

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