Sudeshna Mitra

Biography

Sudeshna Mitra is an professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Indian institute of Technology Kharagpur.

Research Interest

My expertise is in the area of Traffic and Transportation Engineering with an emphasis in Road Traffic Safety, Data Analytics in Traffic and Transportation, and Sustainable Transportation Planning and Design. Road traffic crash is a major public health issue worldwide and I am determined to make a difference in Road Safety through a scientific approach. My research over the last 15 years has focused on identification and quantification of risk factors for various transportation facilities in the developed and developing world. In doing that I have focused on identifying risk involved in individual driving and road use, as well as risk imposed by external elements such as infrastructure design, built environment, landuse, weather and traffic operational conditions.