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Dr. Munavar Fairooz C.
Dr. Munavar Fairooz C.

Assistant Professor

Office Address:

MB 106, NIT Calicut, Calicut.

Email ID:

fairooz@nitc.ac.in

Home Address:

Cheranchery, Palazhi, G.A. College (PO), Kozhikode 673014.

  • PhD (Transportation Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

  • M.Tech (Transportation Engineering),Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

  • B.Tech (Civil Engineering), TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala University.

  • Educational Qualifications

    • PhD (Transportation Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

    • M.Tech (Transportation Engineering),Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

    • B.Tech (Civil Engineering), TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala University.

    International Journal Publications

    • Cheranchery, M. F., Krishnan, M. G., Navas, K. A., Shahid, P. M., & Suresh, R. (2021). Investigating the impact of COVID-19 on user perception for deriving policies and intervention areas for urban bus service in India. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 9(4), 1965-1973.
    • Cheranchery, M. F., & Maitra, B. (2021). Improving quality of ordinary bus service in Kolkata city: Integrating conflicting requirements of users and transit operator. Transport Policy, 111, 17-27.
    • Cheranchery, M. F., Noushad, A., Choyimadathil, A., Jose, J. T., Padu, K., & Nivedita, S. (2021). Identifying areas of intervention for enhancing the attractiveness of Inland waterway transport based on users’ perception: A case study of Kerala. Case Studies on Transport Policy.
    • Cheranchery, M. F., Bhattacharyya, K., Salih, M., & Maitra, B. (2019). A proactive approach to assess safety level of urban bus stops. International journal of injury control and safety promotion, 1-11.
    • Cheranchery, M. F., & Maitra, B. (2017). Priority Areas of Intervention for Improving Urban Bus Services: Experience in Kolkata, India. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, (2634), 17-27.
    • Cheranchery, M. F., Prasad, P., & Maitra, B. (2018). Identifying Management Strategies for the Improvement of Urban Bus Services: A Case Study in Kolkata. Asian Transport Studies, 5(1), 81-97.
    • Dandapat, S., Cheranchery, M. F., & Maitra, B. (2017). Is fare increment desirable for ensuring operational viability of private buses?. Transport Policy, 59, 134-141.
    • Aparna, B. S., Prasad, P., Cheranchery, M. F., & Maitra, B. (2017). Effect of Development of Rural Roads and Feeder Service on Trip Characteristics of Households: A Case Study. Transportation in Developing Economies, 3(2), 19.
    • Cheranchery, M. F., & Maitra, B. (2018). Investigating perception of captive and choice riders for formulating service standards of ordinary and premium buses in Indian cities. Transport Policy, 72, 89-96.
    • Cheranchery, M. F., & Maitra, B. (2019). Improving Ridership and Reducing Subsidy for Premium Bus Service in Kolkata Metro City. Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, 145(7), 04019030.
    • Cheranchery, M. F., Raji, P. M., Surendran, S., Navab, N., Nath, A. S., & Padu, K. (2020, June). Are the preferences of travelers same across cities? A tale of two Indian cities. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 491, No. 1, p. 012053). IOP Publishing.

    International Conference

    • Cheranchery, M. F., Bhattacharyya, K., Maitra, B., & Boltze, M. (2016). Assessing safety level of bus stops in the absence of crash data. In Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting (No. 16-0702).
    • Dandapat, S., Cheranchery, M.F., Maitra, B., (2016). Enhancing Benefit to Bus Users through Optimal Service and Supply. In World Conference on Transport Research and Society
    • Cheranchery, M. F., & Maitra, B. (2017). Priority Areas of Intervention for Improvement of Urban Bus Services: An Experience in Kolkata. In Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting (No. 17-04164).
    • Prasad, P., Cheranchery M. F., & Maitra, B. (2017). Identifying strategies for encouraging the use of shared modes for school trips. In Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting (Accepted)
    • Cheranchery, M. F., Prasad, P., & Maitra, B. (2017). Identifying management strategies for the improvement of urban bus services: An experience in Kolkata. Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
    • Cheranchery, M.F., Dasari, K., Bera, R., Maitra, B. (2017). Investigating heterogeneity in the perception of trip makers for trip attributes. In 4th Conference of Transpiration Research Group of India (Accepted).
    • Gupta, P., Cheranchery, M.F., Maitra, B. (2017). A proactive approach to assess safety level of at-grade signalized intersections. In International Road Federation Conference (WRM 2017)
    • Cheranchery, M. F., Bhattacharyya, K., Salih, M., & Maitra, B. (2019). A proactive approach to assess safety level of urban bus stops. In World Conference on Transport Research and Society
    • Cheranchery M.F., Prathibha M.R., Silpa S., Nourin N., Abhijith S.N., Kiyum P. (2019). Are the preferences of travelers same across cities? A tale of two Indian cities. 5th International Conference on Modeling and Simulation in Civil Engineering (ICMSC2019), TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala.

    Book Chapter

    • Maitra, B., Cheranchery M. F., Prasad, P. (2017). “Rules of Road” In Training Manual for Drivers, Ed. by Maitra, B., Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Transport Department, Government of West Bengal, India, pp. 69-110.

    • Reviewer of Journal of Transportation Engineering Part A Systems, ASCE
    • Reviewer of Asian Transport Studies, Journal of EASTS
    • Reviewer, Internation Conference on Modeling and Simulation in Civil Engineering
    • Reviewer, Conference of the Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG)
    • Reviewer, World Conference on Transportation Research Society (WCTRS)

    • Resource person for the short-term training Programme on safety measures in transportation systems at Muthoot Institute of Technology and Science
    • Resource person for the webinar series on application of mathematics at mahatma gandhi college Iritty
    • Resource person for the webinar series on sustainable urbanism at Xavier University Bhubaneswar
    • Resource person for the workshop on creating clarity and hope a Dayapuram workshop for students
    • Resource person for the Training program for practicing Government Engineers in Kerala at Indian Institute of Infrastructure and Construction

    • Development and Application of Mode Choice Model for the improvement of KSRTC buses: A Case study in Quilon (2018-19)
    • Analysis and Design of KSRTC Buses: A Case study in Quilon (2018-19)
    • Development of Level of Service Standards for Inland Waterway Transport Services (2019-20)
    • Improvement of Inland Waterway Transport Services: A case Study in Kollam District (2019-20)
    • Development of Accident Prediction Model for the Newly Constructed Kollam Bypass (2019-20)         
    • Performance Evaluation of Low Volume Roads (2019-20)
    • Evaluation of interlayer shear strength of bituminous overlays using Leutner shear test (2020-21)
    • Improvement of urban pedestrian facilities based on the perception of users a case study in Kollam
    • Application of neural networks for the analysis and prediction travel mode choice

    • Seven months in Germany (under DAAD IIT Master Sandwich program), for doing master thesis in Transportation Engineering (Technical University Darmstadt)
    • Presented Technical Paper in the Annual of Meeting of Transportation Research Board Held in Washington DC, USA, 2017.
    • Presented Technical Paper in World Conference on Transport Research Society Held in Shanghai, China, in 2016

    More than 4 years as Assistant Professor at TKM College of Engineering (Government Aided Educational Institution in Kerala)

    • German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship based on academic excellence, during 2013 to 2014, for doing master thesis in Germany for seven months
    • The Best Paper Award for Institutional innovation, received on the occasion of the 12th Easts International Conference in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam, in 2017 for the paper entitled Identifying management strategies for the improvement of urban bus services: An experience in Kolkata