Professional Experience

• Professor IIT Guwahati , January 2019 to till date
• Associate Professor IIT Guwahati , March 2014 to December 2019
• Assistant Professor IIT Guwahati , September 2008 - February 2014
• Senior Lecturer IIT Guwahati, August 2007 - August 2008
• Lecturer K.L. College of Engineering , Vijayawada October 2001 - September 2002

Research Interest

• Traffic flow theory and Modeling
• Traffic data collection and analysis
• Urban Travel demand Modeling
• Road safety using SSMs
• SDGs and Transport

Honors/Awards

• Technical Expert, Guwahati Smart City Ltd.
• Member, State Road Safety Council, Assam
• Member, Guwahati Metro Implementation Committee
• Co-coordinator, STA, PMGSY
• DAAD student exchange program to pursue M. Tech project work in Technical University , Dresden , Germany

Professional Membership

• Life member – Indian Society for Technical Education

 

Refereed Journals

1. Kar P., Venthuruthiyil S.P., Mallikarjuna Chunchu (2024) Crash Risk Estimation of Heavy Commercial Vehicles on Horizontal Curves in Mountainous Terrain Using Proactive Safety Method, Accident Analysis & Prevention, Accepted for publication.
2. Anna, VA Bharat Kumar, Tanpuii Darlong, and Mallikarjuna Chunchu. "Analysis and Modelling of Acceleration Behavior on the Horizontal Curves of Two-Lane Undivided Rural Highways Passing Through Mountainous Terrain." Transportation in Developing Economies 10, no. 1 (2024): 6.
3. Kar, Pranab, Shivkant Kumar, Shivasai Samalla, Mallikarjuna Chunchu, and KVR Ravi Shankar. "Exploratory analysis of evasion actions of powered two-wheeler conflicts at unsignalized intersection." Accident Analysis & Prevention 194 (2024): 107363.
4. Anna, VA Bharat Kumar, and Mallikarjuna Chunchu. "Determinants of speed variability on the horizontal curves of two-lane undivided rural highways passing through mountainous terrain." International journal of injury control and safety promotion 30, no. 4 (2023): 652-665.
5. Venthuruthiyil, Suvin P., Shivasai Samalla, and Mallikarjuna Chunchu. "Association of crash potential of powered two-wheelers with the state of traffic stream." Safety science 166 (2023): 106257.
6. Kar, Pranab, Suvin P. Venthuruthiyil, and Mallikarjuna Chunchu. "Assessing the crash risk of mixed traffic on multilane rural highways using a proactive safety approach." Accident Analysis & Prevention 188 (2023): 107099.
7. Kar, Pranab, Suvin P. Venthuruthiyil, and Mallikarjuna Chunchu. "Non-stationary crash risk modelling of powered two-wheelers using extreme value analysis of surrogate crash events." Accident Analysis & Prevention 183 (2023): 106973.
8. Anna, VA Bharat Kumar, Suvin P. Venthuruthiyil, and Mallikarjuna Chunchu. "Vehicle trajectory data extraction from the horizontal curves of mountainous roads." Transportation Letters (2023).
9. Shallam, R. D. K., VA Bharat Kumar Anna,Mallikarjuna Chunchu, and Anjan Kumar Siddagangaiah. "Safety and consistency assessment of a two-lane rural highway passing through mountainous terrain." Journal of transportation engineering, Part A: Systems 148, no. 12 (2022): 04022110.
10. Venthuruthiyil, Suvin P., and Mallikarjuna Chunchu. "Anticipated Collision Time (ACT): A two-dimensional surrogate safety indicator for trajectory-based proactive safety assessment." Transportation research part C: emerging technologies 139 (2022): 103655.
11. Anna, VA Bharat Kumar, Mallikarjuna Chunchu, and Venkatesh Tamarapalli. "Socio-economic and trip characteristics influencing the travel time perception of cyclists: a case study of a residential academic campus." Transportation in developing economies 8, no. 1 (2022): 7.
12. Venthuruthiyil, Suvin P., and Mallikarjuna Chunchu. "Interrupted and uninterrupted lane changes: a microscopic outlook of lane-changing dynamics." Transportmetrica A: transport science 18, no. 3 (2022): 1679-1698.
13. Shallam, R. D. K., Suvin P. Venthuruthiyil, Mallikarjuna Chunchu, and Anjan Kumar Siddagangaiah. "Operating speed modeling for the rural highways passing through hilly terrain." Journal of transportation engineering, Part A: Systems 147, no. 5 (2021): 04021015.
14. Omar, Ballari Syed, Pranab Kar, and Mallikarjuna Chunchu. "Passenger car equivalent estimation for rural highways: methodological review." Transportation research procedia 48 (2020): 801-816.
15. Suvin, Padinjare Venthuruthiyil, Ankita R. Karmakar, Sabina Y. Islam, and C. Mallikarjuna. "Criteria for temporal aggregation of the traffic data from a heterogeneous traffic stream." Transportation research procedia 48 (2020): 3401-3412.
16. Pal, Dibyendu, Suvin P. Venthuruthiyil, and Mallikarjuna Chunchu. "Characteristics of vehicular lateral shifts in non-lane-disciplined traffic stream." Transportation research procedia 48 (2020): 3245-3253.
17. Venthuruthiyil, Suvin P., and Mallikarjuna Chunchu. "Vehicle path reconstruction using Recursively Ensembled Low-pass filter (RELP) and adaptive tri-cubic kernel smoother." Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 120 (2020): 102847.
18. Pal, Dibyendu, and Mallikarjuna Chunchu. "Effect of vehicular lateral gap models on heterogeneous traffic stream behavior." Transportation letters 12, no. 6 (2020): 399-407.
19. Pal, Dibyendu, and Mallikarjuna Chunchu. "Modeling of lateral gap maintaining behavior of vehicles in heterogeneous traffic stream." Transportation letters 11, no. 7 (2019): 373-381.
20. Shallam, R. D. K., Suvin P. Venthuruthiyil, Mallikarjuna Chunchu, and Anjan Kumar Siddagangaiah. "Empirical analysis of operating speed performance on undivided hilly roads." Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems 145, no. 8 (2019): 04019034.
21. Venthuruthiyil, Suvin P., and Mallikarjuna Chunchu. "Trajectory reconstruction using locally weighted regression: A new methodology to identify the optimum window size and polynomial order." Transportmetrica A: Transport Science 14, no. 10 (2018): 881-900.
22. Suvin, P. V., and C. Mallikarjuna. "Modified generalized definitions for the traffic flow characteristics under heterogeneous, no-lane disciplined traffic streams." Transportation research procedia 34 (2018): 75-82.
23. Syed Omar, B., K. Pranab, and C. Mallikarjuna. "Passenger Car Equivalents for the Heterogeneous Traffic on Divided Rural Highways based on Simulation Model." Transportation in Developing Economies (TIDE) 4, no. 14 (2018).
24. Pal, Dibyendu, and Mallikarjuna Chunchu. "Smoothing of vehicular trajectories under heterogeneous traffic conditions to extract microscopic data." Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering 45, no. 6 (2018): 435-445.
25. Sugandhi, Ujjwal, and Mallikarjuna Chunchu. "Analysis and modeling of two-wheeler-overtaking-LMV maneuver in heterogeneous traffic stream." Transportation in developing economies 3 (2017): 1-7.
26. Sarkar, Partha Pratim, and C. Mallikarjuna. "Effect of perception and attitudinal variables on mode choice behavior: A case study of Indian city, Agartala." Travel Behaviour and Society 12 (2018): 108-114.
27. Balusu, Surya Prasanna Kumar, Naveen Chandra Iraganaboina, Regulus Dominic K. Shallam, andMallikarjuna Chunchu. "Speed-profile-based road segmentation for accident occurrence modelling for hilly terrains." International journal of injury control and safety promotion 24, no. 4 (2017): 444-451.
28. Omar, Syed, andCh Mallikarjuna. "Analysis of the macroscopic relations for no-lane based heterogeneous traffic stream." Procedia Engineering 142 (2016): 244-251.
29. Pal, Dibyendu, and C. Mallikarjuna. "Analysis of the effect of variable lateral gap maintaining behavior of vehicles on traffic flow modeling." Procedia Engineering 142 (2016): 198-204.
30. Sarkar, Partha Pratim, and Mallikarjuna Chunchu. "Quantification and analysis of land-use effects on travel behavior in smaller Indian cities: case study of Agartala." Journal of Urban Planning and Development 142, no. 4 (2016): 04016009.
31. Chunchu, Mallikarjuna, and Bhavathrathan Bhattiyil Kuzhiyamkunnath. "Analysis of the effect of two-wheeler lane-sharing behavior on macroscopic traffic flow modeling." Transport 29, no. 2 (2014): 146-153.
32. Bordoloi, Rupjyoti, Amit Mote, Partha Pratim Sarkar, and C. Mallikarjuna. "Quantification of land use diversity in the context of mixed land use." Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences 104 (2013): 563-572.
33. Bhavathrathan, B., and C. Mallikarjuna. "Evolution of macroscopic models for modeling the heterogeneous traffic: an Indian perspective." Transportation Letters 4, no. 1 (2012): 29-39.
34. Mukala, Praveen Kumar, and Mallikarjuna Chunchu. "Mode choice modelling for intercity transportation in India: A case of Guwahati to five metro cities." International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering 4, no. 06 (2011): 364-374.
35. Mallikarjuna, Ch, and K. Ramachandra Rao. "Heterogeneous traffic flow modelling: a complete methodology." Transportmetrica 7, no. 5 (2011): 321-345.
36. Chunchu, Mallikarjuna, Ramachandra Rao Kalaga, and Naga Venkata Satish Kumar Seethepalli. "Analysis of microscopic data under heterogeneous traffic conditions." Transport 25, no. 3 (2010): 262-268.
37. Pal, Dibyendu, and Ch Mallikarjuna. "Cellular automata cell structure for modeling heterogeneous traffic." (2010).
38. Mallikarjuna, C., and S. T. G. Raghu Kanth. "Forecasting the air traffic for North-East Indian cities." Advances in Adaptive Data Analysis 2, no. 01 (2010): 81-96.
39. Mallikarjuna, Ch, A. Phanindra, and K. Ramachandra Rao. "Traffic data collection under mixed traffic conditions using video image processing." Journal of transportation engineering 135, no. 4 (2009): 174-182.
40. Mallikarjuna, Ch, and K. Ramachandra Rao. "Cellular automata model for heterogeneous traffic." Journal of Advanced Transportation 43, no. 3 (2009): 321-345.
41. Mallikarjuna, Ch, and K. Ramachandra Rao. "Identification of a suitable cellular automata model for mixed traffic." Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies 7 (2007): 2454-2469.
42. Mallikarjuna, Ch, and K. Ramachandra Rao. "Area occupancy characteristics of heterogeneous traffic." Transportmetrica 2, no. 3 (2006): 223-236.

Proceedings

In International Conferences

1. Mallikarjuna, Ch., and Ramachandra Rao, K., (2005), Traffic flow modeling on Highways using Cellular Automata. International Conference, Structural and Road Transportation Engineering , IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. (Citations: 6)
2. Mallikarjuna, Ch., and Ramachandra Rao, K., (2006), "Modelling passenger car equivalency under heterogeneous traffic conditions", 2 2nd ARRB Conference ,Canberra , Australia. (Citations: 14)
3. Mallikarjuna, Ch., Ramachandra Rao, K., (2007), Traffic flow measurements under mixed traffic conditions. CENeM-2007, Bengal Engineering and Science University , Shibpur , India
4. Ramachandra Rao, K., Mallikarjuna, Ch., R. Singh, (2008), Estimation of Delay at Signalized Intersections Under Heterogeneous Traffic Conditions, 8th International Conference and Workshop on Transportation Planning & Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
5. Mallikarjuna, Ch., and Ramachandra Rao, K. (2009), Developing and Validating A Simulation Model For Heterogeneous Traffic, TRB Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., USA. (Citations: 1)
6. Bordoloi, R., Mote, A., Sarkar, P.P., Mallikarjuna Ch., (2013), Quantification of Land Use Diversity in The Context of Mixed Land Use, Proceeding of 2nd Conference of Transportation Research Group, Agra, India (Citations: 16)
7. Sarkar, P.P., Mallikarjuna Ch., (2013), Effect of Land Use on Travel Behavior: A case study of Agartala City, Proceeding of 2nd Conference of Transportation Research Group, Agra, India (Citations: 4)
8. Pal, D., Mallikarjuna Ch., (2016), Analysis of the Effect of Variable Lateral Gap Maintaining Behavior of Vehicles on Traffic Flow Modeling, Proceeding of Sustainable Development of Civil, Urban and Transportation Engineering, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
9. Omar, S., D., Mallikarjuna Ch., (2016), Analysis of the Macroscopic Relations for No-Lane Based Heterogeneous Traffic Stream, Proceeding of Sustainable Development of Civil, Urban and Transportation Engineering, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
10. Ujjwal, S., Mallikarjuna Ch., (2016), Analysis and Modelling of Two Wheeler overtaking LMV Maneuver in Heterogeneous traffic stream, Proceeding of 12th TPMDC, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
11. Pal, D., Mallikarjuna Ch., (2016), Vehicle Trajectory correction using empirical mode decompostion, Proceeding of 12th TPMDC, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
12. Suvin, P. V., Mallikarjuna, Ch. (2017), Macroscopic Characterization of the Heterogeneous Traffic Stream with Projected Vehicle Area as the Individual Traffic Unit, National Conference on Civil, Geo-tech & Transport Research, NERIST, Itanagar, India, Awarded best paper
13. Suvin, P. V., Mallikarjuna, Ch. (2017), On-Road Parking: A New Approach to Quantify the Side Friction Regarding Road Width Reduction, Urban Mobility India Conference, Institute of Urban Transport, Hyderabad, India, Awarded best paper
14. Syed Omar, B., Kar, P., & Mallikarjuna, Ch. (2017), Comparative Analysis of different performance measures for PCE estimation. National Conference on Civil, Geo-tech & Transport Research, NERIST, Itanagar
15. Suvin, P.V., Mallikarjuna Ch., (2018), Reconstruction of the vehicle Trajectories for a meaningful representation of the Heterogeneous, no lane-disciplined traffic stream, accepted for the Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. USA
16. Suvin, P. V., Mallikarjuna, Ch., (2018), Empirical Estimation of the Traffic Flow Characteristics by Considering the Road Side Friction. ASCE International Conference on Transportation Development, Pittsburgh, USA, Accepted for presentation.
17. Syed Omar, B., Kar, P., & Mallikarjuna, Ch. (2018), Analysis of passenger car equivalents using a simulation based approach. 97th Annual meeting of Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC.
18. Suvin, P.V., Mallikarjuna, Ch., (2018), Modified Generalized Definitions for the Traffic Flow Characteristics under Heterogeneous, No-Lane Disciplined Traffic Streams. ISTS-IWTDCS, 6th ISTS and 5th IWTDCS International Conference, Ehime, Japan
19. Ballari Syed Omar, Kar Pranab, Mallikarjuna Ch., (2019), Passenger Car Equivalent Estimation for Rural Highways: Methodological Review, 15th World Conference on Transport Research, Mumbai
20. Suvin P. Venthuruthiyil, Sapan Tiwari, Pratiksha J. Choudhury, Jerifa Zaman, Mallikarjuna Ch., (2019), Empirical Investigation of the Existence of Class-Wise Fundamental Diagram for a Heterogeneous Traffic Stream, 15th World Conference on Transport Research, Mumbai
21. Suvin P. Venthuruthiyil, Ankita R. Karmakar, Sabina Y. Islam, Mallikarjuna Ch., (2019), Criteria for Temporal Aggregation of the Traffic Data from a Heterogeneous Traffic Stream, 15th World Conference on Transport Research, Mumbai

In National Conferences

1. K. Ramachandra Rao, Ch. Mallikarjuna and S. Jain, Effect of Heterogeneity of Traffic on Delay at Signalized Intersections: A Comparison with Highway Capacity Manual 2000, National Conference on Civil Engineering Systems (CES-2006) Conference, June 2006, pp 353- 363, Osmania University, Hyderabad.
2. Ch. Mallikarjuna and K. Ramachandra Rao, Study of Traffic Characteristics under Mixed Traffic Conditions National Conference on Civil Engineering Systems (CES-2006) Conference, June 2006, pp 409- 420, Osmania University, Hyderabad.

 

 

 

Research Guidance

Ph.D. (Completed)

Dr. Partha Pratim Sarkar, Title of the thesis: Analysis and Modeling of Travel Behavior for a Small Indian city. Presently working as an Assistant Professor at NIT Agartala, Agartala, Tripura.
Current position: Associate Professor, NIT Agartala

Dr. Dibyendu Pal, Title of the thesis: Analysis and Modeling of vehicular movement in no-lane-disciplined heterogeneous traffic stream. Presently working as an Assistant Professor at NERIST, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh.
Current position: Assistant Professor, NERIST, Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh

Dr. Syed B. Omar, Title: Analysis and Modelling of passenger car equivalency for Heterogeneous Traffic Conditions.
Current position: Professor, Gurunanak Insitituions, Technical Campus, Hyderabad

Dr. P V Suvin, Viva voce pending. Title: Trajectory-Based Proactive Safety Assessment of Road Traffic
Current position: Assistant Professor, IIT Hyderabad

Dr. Regulus Shallam, Viva voce pending. Title: Role of design consistency in the safety aspects of hill roads
Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor, NEHU, Shillong

6. Dr. AVA Bharat Kumar, Title: Assessment of Speed Variability on the Horizontal Curves Using Vehicle Trajectories for Geometric Design Consistency and Safety Evaluation of a Two-lane Rural Highway Passing Through Mountainous Terrain
Current position: Post-doctoral fellow, TRIPP center, IIT Delhi

7. Dr. Pranab Kar, Title: Proactive Safety Assessment of Mixed Traffic on Rural Highways Using Extreme Value Theory
Current position: Post-doctoral fellow, University of Memphis,USA

Ph.D. (Ongoing)

Mr. Shivasai Samalla, 2020 – In Progress. Research Topic: Proactive safety assessment of motorized two wheelers in the heterogeneous traffic stream

M.Tech. (Completed)

2008-2009

Mr. Dibyendu Pal, Analysis of the Effect of Gap Maintaining Behaviour on Traffic Flow Models.

2009-2010

Mr. Rahul T. M., Macroscopic Modeling of Heterogeneous Traffic.

Mr. Mario G. Pradeep, Analysis of Macroscopic Characteristics of Heterogeneous Traffic conditions

Mr. Kuleshwar Verma, Analysis of Relationships of Heterogeneous Traffic Characteristics

2010-2011

Mr. Bhavthratan, B.K., Incorporating two-Wheeler Lane-Sharing behavior into the heterogeneous Traffic Flow Models

Mr. Ashok, J., Assessment of the roughness characteristics of urban roads using the mobile phone sensors

Mr. Chaitanya, Effect of lane width on capacity

2011-2012

Mr. Santhosh Kadavy, Developing First Order Macroscopic model for Heterogeneous Traffic

Mr. T. Santhi Jagadeeshwari, Analysis of the non-motorized mode choice behaviour in the context of developing countries

Mr. Devarshi Pratap Singh, Impact of land use mix on trip behaviour

2012-2013

Mr. Amit Mote, Induction loop base traffic detectors for Heterogeneous Traffic

Mr. Rupjyoti Bordoloi, Analysis and Modeling of land use effect on Travel Behavior

Mr. Tharun Budde, Analysis of lateral gap maintaining behavior of vehicles moving in heterogeneous traffic stream

2013-2014

Mr. Pratap Kumar Pradhan, Heterogeneous Traffic flow modeling using Cell Transmission Model

Mr. Sandep, Significance of Residential Sorting effect in work trip mode choice decisions

Mr. Siddharth Vishwakarma, Identification of important model parameters and development of GUI for heterogeneous traffic simulation

Mr. Ujjwal Sugandhi, Analysis and Modeling of Lateral position adjustments of Motorized two-wheelers in the heterogeneous traffic stream

2014-2015

Mr. I Naveen Chandra, Determination of Choice set availability to the Individual Trip Makers in case of flexible public or intermediate public transport network

Mr. Pranab Kar, Heterogeneous Traffic flow modeling using CTM

2015-2016

Mr. P V Suvin, Analysis of congested traffic conditions in heterogeneous Traffic Stream

2016-2017

Mr. Ankit Gupta, Smoothing of vehicular Trajectories considering the lateral movement of vehicles observed in the heterogeneous traffic stream

Mr. Akhil Raj, Optimal platform allocation under uncertain train arrivals

2017-2018

Mr. Rajat Taneja, Estimation of Free flow speed for the LOS assessment of multilane rural highways

2018-2019

Mr. Sapan Tiwari, Development of class-wise fundamental diagram for multi-class traffic stream

2019-2020

Mr. Diwakar Das, Random Forest based Lane Change Decision Making model using the most influential parameters

2020-2021

Mr. Harkhani Harsh Prakashkumar, Risk Assessment of Interrupted Lane Change Dynamics for Autonomous Lane Change Design

Mr. Nikhil Kumar Singh, Random forest based lane change decision making model considering interrupted and uninterrupted lane changing dynamics

Mr. Aradwad Sharayu, Comparative Assessment of the Parametric Curves Used for Lane Change Path planning

 

Research & Development

Sponsored Research

1. Safer roads for Safer childhood, A project executed by the joint consortium of IIT Guwahati, Center for environment education society, and Home and Political Department, Govt. of Assam. This project is funded by IFRC, Geneva, Switzerland, 300 lakhs
2. Determining the suitability of Assam aggregates of different sources as ingredient for micro-surfacing, Funded by DST under Technology Systems Development program, 42.21 lakhs, Sept. 2013- Feb. 2017, PI – Prof. Lyngdoh
3. Evaluation of the urban road network in terms of the traffic and road way conditions: a case study of Guwahati, Funded by DST under Technology Systems Development program, 27.38 lakhs. Dec, 2013-Dec, 2016
4. Vehicle gap maintaining behavior under varying traffic conditions and its effects on flow-occupancy relationships, Funded by DST under Young Scientist Scheme, 13.98 lakhs. 2009-2012
5. Traffic data collection on mid-block sections of urban roads using Video Image Processing Technique, IIT Guwahati, 5 lakhs.

 

Administrative Experience

1. Associate Dean, Student Affairs, May 2018 - May 2021
2. Chairman, Hostel Affairs Board, April 2015 – July 2017
3. Warden, Siang Hostel, August 2012 - March 2015
4. Associate warden, Siang Hostel, May 2011 - August 2012
5. Faculty In-charge, Placements, Civil Engineering Department, 2010-2012
6. Department Postgraduate Program Committee Member, Civil Engineering Department, 2013-2014

 

 

Other Activities

1. Member, State Road Safety Council, Assam
2. Member, Guwahati Metro Implementation Committee
3. Co-coordinator, STA, PMGSY
4. Technical Expert, Guwahati Smart City Ltd.