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Prof. Prasanta Kumar Sahu

Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering

Crowd-sourced and Reverse Logistics, Energy-efficient Platforms for Collaborative Last mile delivery, Freight Demand Modelling and Planning for Logistics Systems, Green Mobility, Physical Internet Application for Omni channel Delivery Planning, Quality of Life, Sustainable Modal Shifts and Transport Emission, Transit Operations and Management, Transportation and Health, Travel Behaviour Analysis and Discrete Choice Modelling
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India

SPONSORED PROJECTS

12. TUTEM: Technologies for Urban Transit to Enhance Mobility and Safe Accessibility – ₹3,91,00,000, ($473,550), Asian Development Bank (ADB), 2023 – 2025

Project Team: Avijit Maji, Prasant Sahu, Arkopal Goswami, Location Mind. 

This is a collaborative project between IIT Bombay, BITS Pilani, IIT Kharagpur and Location Mind, Japan – Joint Principal Investigator.

Funded through ADB’s Transport Technology Innovation Challenge High-Level Technology Application Project 

11. Integrating Supply Chains in Smart Cities for Enhanced Community Service: A Business and Environmental Sustainability Approach, ASCRIN, La Trobe University, Australia, 2023 – 2027

Project Team: Srikanta Routroy, Prasant Sahu, Sean Arisian, Aniruddha Desai.

This is a collaborative project between BITS Pilani and La Trobe University, Australia – Co-Principal Investigator.

10. Lean Supply Chain Designs to Reduce Food Waste for Business and Environmental Sustainability: An Indo-Australian Study, BITS-RMIT Academy Australia, 2023 – 2027

Project Team – Srikanta Routroy, Prasant Sahu, Prem Chhetri, Mathews Nkhoma.

This is a collaborative project between BITS Pilani and RMIT University, Australia – Co-Principal Investigator.

9. Electric-assist bicycle (e-Bike) mobility planning for smart cities: Fostering active transportation to improve public health, air quality, sustainability, and efficiency during COVID-19 – ASCRIN, La Trobe University, Australia, 2021 - 2025.

Project Team: Prasant Sahu, Bandhan Majumdar, Rodrigo Rico Bini and Jayden Hunter – Principal Investigator

8. Transport policy interventions to curb particulate matter emissions in Chandigarh – £37,027, Global Challenges Research Fund, UK– GCRF-HEFCW: 2020 - 2022

Project Team: Georgina Santos, Dimitris Potoglou, Prasant Sahu, Bandhan Majumdar and  Ashoke Sarkar – Indian Principal Investigator

7. Congestion Pricing: Planning for optimal strategies and commuters' behavioural implications under different pricing schemes – ₹29.39493 Lakhs, 2019-2021 - SPARC: MHRD, Govt. of India. Additional Grant: ₹11,51,000 – United Kingdom India Research Initiative (UKIERI). Total – ₹40,90,493 ($55,000)

Project Team: Prasant Sahu, Bandhan Majumdar, Ashoke Sarkar, Dimitris Potoglou, Georgina Santos and Dilum Dissanayake – Principal Investigator

6. Examination of binder loss in the bituminous mixture for in-service pavements – ₹9,90,000 ($13,500), 2019-2021 - Govt. of Telangana State. 

Project Team: Sridhar Raju and Prasant Sahu – Co-Principal Investigator

5. Prevention of Hazardous Field-Firing of Bagasse and Its Sustainable Utilization as a Raw Material in an Innovative Industrial Process – ₹28,79,650 ($38,500), 2019-2021 – SPARC: MHRD, Govt. of India.

Project Team: Srinivas Appari, Bahurudeen A, Prasant Sahu, Shinji Kudo, Koji Nakabayashi – Co-Principal Investigator

4. Development of Pedestrian Facility Assessment Tool for Improving Pedestrian Safety Condition in Hyderabad – ₹1,00,000 ($1,350), 2019-2020 – Hyderabad.

Project Team: Bandhan Majumdar and Prasant Sahu – Co-Principal Investigator

3. Adoption of Battery-Electric Buses in India – £13,970, Global Challenges Research Fund, UK – GCRF-HEFCW: 2018 - 2019.

Project Team: Dimitris Potoglou, Georgina Santos, Bandhan Majumdar, Prasant Sahu and Ashoke Sarkar – Indian Principal Investigator

2. Developing Suitable Pedagogical Methods for Various Classes, Intellectual Calibers and Research in e-Learning – ₹7,00,000 ($9,500), 2016 – MHRD – Govt. of India.

Project Team: Bahurudeen A, Prasant Sahu and Nikhil Saboo – Co-Principal Investigator

1. Development of Freight Generation Model in Urban Areas, Research Initiation Grant – ₹2,00,000 ($3000), 2015 – 2017

BITS Pilani – Principal Investigator

RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANTS

5. Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) Study Visit Grant (SVG) – 30,000 SEK ($3,000), 2020.
To visit: CoE-SUFS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA
Funding Agency: VREF, Gothenburg, Sweden

4. Conference Grant (travel, registration, accommodation, subsistence, etc.) – ₹3,00,000 ($4,000), 2018. 

To visit: VREF Advanced Studies Institutes on Sustainable Urban Freight Systems (VASI-SUFS) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, 2018
Funding Agency: VASI-SUFS, RPI, Troy.

3. Travel Grant – ₹1,07,000 ($1,450), 2018. International Travel Support Scheme, Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. 
To visit: Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA
Funding Agency: SERB, DST, Government of India

2. Travel Grant – ₹1,25,000 ($1,700), 2017. Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Regina, Canada. 
To visit: University of Regina as a Visiting Scientist for a week.
Funding Agency: Satish Sharma’s NSERC Discovery Grant.

1. Travel Grant – ₹1,60,000 ($2,200), 2016. Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Regina, Canada.
To visit: University of Regina as a Visiting Scientist for a month.
Funding Agency: Satish Sharma’s NSERC Discovery Grant.