Undergraduate Level 

CE 101: Engineering Drawing        

Graduate Level 

CE 628: Traffic Flow Modelling and Simulation

CE 323: Transportation Engineering II - Laboratory

• Traffic flow theory
• Crash severity analysis
• Crash frequency analysis
• Driving behavior
• Human factors
• Naturalistic driving study
• Econometric Modeling

• NRC research associateship award from the U.S. government to conduct post-doctoral research at sponsoring federal laboratories and affiliated institutions.
• Earned Second Place at the Central Missouri Institute of Transportation Engineers- sponsored Poster Session at Missouri’s 2017 Highway Safety and Traffic Blueprint Conference.
• Graduate Research Assistantship, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA.
• NEC Merit Scholarship & Book Grant (four times), Directorate of Technical Education: Assam, India.

Journal publications

1. Bharadwaj, N., Edara, P. and Sun, C., 2023. Analyzing the effect of distractions and impairments on young driver safety using naturalistic driving study data. Journal of transportation engineering, Part A: Systems, 149(1), p.04022115.
2. Bharadwaj, N., Edara, P. and Sun, C., 2021. Sleep disorders and risk of traffic crashes: A naturalistic driving study analysis. Safety Science, 140, p.105295.
3. Chang, Y., Bharadwaj, N., Edara, P. and Sun, C., 2020. Exploring Contributing Factors of Hazardous Events in Construction Zones Using Naturalistic Driving Study Data. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 5(3), pp.519-527.
4. Bharadwaj, N., Edara, P. and Sun, C., 2019. Risk factors in work zone safety events: a naturalistic driving study analysis. Transportation research record, 2673(1), pp.379-387. 
5. Bharadwaj, N., Edara, P., Sun, C., Brown, H. and Chang, Y., 2018. Traffic flow modeling of diverse work zone activities. Transportation research record, 2672(16), pp.23-34.
6. Bharadwaj, N., Mathew, S., Pani, A., Arkatkar, S., Joshi, G. and Ravinder, K., 2018. Effect of traffic composition and emergency lane on capacity: a case study of intercity expressway in India. Transportation letters, 10(6), pp.316-332.
7. Bharadwaj, N., Kumar, P., Arkatkar, S.S. and Joshi, G., 2018. Deriving capacity and level-of-service thresholds for intercity expressways in India. Transportation Letters, pp.1-15.
8. Kumar, P., Bains, M.S., Bharadwaj, N., Arkatkar, S. and Joshi, G., 2018. Impact assessment of driver speed limit compliance behavior on macroscopic traffic characteristics under heterogeneous traffic environment. Transportation Letters, pp.1-12.
9. Bharadwaj, N., Kumar, P., Mane, A.S., Arkatkar, S.S., Bhaskar, A. and Joshi, G.J., 2017. Comparative evaluation of density estimation methods on different uninterrupted roadway facilities: few case studies in India. Transportation in developing economies, 3(1), p.3.
10. Bharadwaj, N., Kumar, P., Arkatkar, S., Maurya, A. and Joshi, G., 2016. Traffic data analysis using image processing technique on Delhi–Gurgaon expressway. Current Science, 110(5), pp.808-822.

Conference Papers 

1. Bharadwaj, N., Edara, P. and Sun, C., 2024 Understanding the kinematics of rear end safety critical events with naturalistic driving data. 103th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., USA, January 7-11.  
2. Therattil, J., More, P., and Bharadwaj, N., 2024 Evaluation of safety based on Extreme value approach at unsignalized T intersections in India. 103th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., USA, January 7-11.  
3. More, P., Therattil, J., and Bharadwaj, N., 2024 Work Zone Safety Analysis: Evaluating Rear-End Crash Risk with Extreme Value Theory 103th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., USA, January 7-11.  
4. Therattil, J., More, P., and Bharadwaj, N., 2023 Safety analysis at unsignalized T intersection using Extreme Value Theorem. 7^th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG 2023), Surat, India; December 17-23.
5. More, P., Therattil, J., and Bharadwaj, N., 2023 Rear-end crash risk analysis of merging manoeuvres in work zones using Extreme Value theory. 7^th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG 2023), Surat, India; December 17-23.
6. Bharadwaj, N., Edara, P. and Sun, C., 2021 Understanding the kinematics of rear end safety critical events with naturalistic driving data. Presented in the 100th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., USA, January 5-29.  
7. Bharadwaj, N., 2020. Modeling and Evaluation of Transportation Safety Using SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Data. Presented in Doctoral Student Research in Transportation Safety in 99th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., USA, January 12-16.
8. Bharadwaj, N., Edara, P. and Sun, C., 2019. Computing odds of crashes and near-crashes using naturalistic driving study data. Presented in 15th World Conference on Transportation Research (WCTRS), Mumbai, India, May 26-31.
9. Bharadwaj, N., Edara, P. and Sun, C., 2019. Risk factors in work zone safety events: a naturalistic driving study analysis. Proceedings of the 98th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., USA, January 13-17.
10. Chang, Y., Bharadwaj, N., Edara, P., Sun, C., 2018 Analysis and Classification of Crashes and Near-Crashes involving 16-19 year old drivers. Seventh International Symposium on Naturalistic Driving Research (NDRS 2018), Blacksburg, Virginia, August 28-30.
11. Bharadwaj, N., Edara, P., Sun, C., Brown, H. and Chang, Y., 2018. Traffic flow modeling of diverse work zone activities. Proceedings of the 97th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., USA, January 7-11.
12. Bharadwaj, N., Chang, Y., Edara, P., and Brown, H., 2017. Understanding the Impacts of Work Zone Activities on Traffic Flow Characteristics. Presented in 2017 Mid-Continent Transportation Research Symposium, Ames, Iowa, August 16–17.
13. Kumar, P., Bains, M.S., Bharadwaj, N., Arkatkar, S. and Joshi, G., 2016. Impact assessment of driver speed limit compliance behavior on macroscopic traffic characteristics under heterogeneous traffic environment. Presented in 14th World Conference on Transportation Research (WCTRS), Shanghai, China; July 10-15. 
14. Bharadwaj, N., Arkatkar, S.S., Bhaskar, A. and Joshi, G., 2016. Expressing Traffic flow on Intercity Expressways in India: lane vs. directional traffic flow behaviour. In proceedings of 12th Conference of Transportation planning and implementation methodologies for developing countries (TPMDC), Mumbai, India.
15. Bharadwaj, N., Kumar, P., Mane, A.S., Arkatkar, S.S., Bhaskar, A. and Joshi, G.J., 2015. Comparative evaluation of density estimation methods on different uninterrupted roadway facilities: few case studies in India. Presented in in 3rd Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG 2015), Kolkata, India; December 17-10.