Dr. S. Velmurugan
Senior Principal Scientist
Traffic Engineering and Safety Division
Central Road Research Institute
India
Biography
She served as Head of TES Division from 1.4.2013 to 18.4.2016. During this tenure, she assumed the role of Project Coordinator in all the Sponsored projects handled by the Traffic Engineering and Safety ( TES ) Division by rendering my overall guidance and expertise to the scientific staff of TES division as well as gelled well with the scientists of Transportation Planning (TP ) Division and couple of scientists in Pavement Evaluation Area (PEA) of t he Institute. Since 1 st April, 2013, this had helped in garnering an average External Cash Flow (ECF) of around Rs. 360 lakhs every year in the TES Division alone coupled with timely completion of more than 20 Sponsored Projects. More importantly, due to my active involvement in planned research projects , the number of research publications in SCI Journals and other reputed journals emanating from the scientific staff of the Traffic Engineering and Transportation Planning (TTP) Area had also increased . About a dozen papers emanated out of Indo - HCM project were accepted either in SCI Journals or in refereed Conferences like World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR), CTRG, TRB, RATE, etc. Moreover, I had made concerted efforts to streamline the proced ure for reporting of the results in respect of the testing related projects handled in the TES division.
Research Interest
Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Road Safety, Transportation Planning, Transport Economics and Transport Environment
Publications
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Velmurugan S, Errampalli M, Ravinder K, Sitaramanjaneyulu K, Gangopadhyay S. Critical evaluation of roadway capacity of multi-lane high speed corridors under heterogeneous traffic conditions through traditional and microscopic simulation models. InJournal of Indian Roads Congress 2010 Oct (Vol. 71, No. 3, pp. 235-264).
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Mehar A, Chandra S, Velmurugan S. Highway capacity through vissim calibrated for mixed traffic conditions. KSCE journal of Civil Engineering. 2014 Mar 1;18(2):639.
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Mehar A, Chandra S, Velmurugan S. Speed and acceleration characteristics of different types of vehicles on multi-lane highways. European Transport. 2013 Dec;55:1825-3997.
