About Us

Infrastructure Planning Lab (IPL@IITR) in the Department of Architecture and Planning at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee has been set up in 2020 with an aim to produce quality research that could help to solve various issues related to Infrastructure Planning for better living. The research group consists of faculty members, research scholars, post-graduate and under-graduate students of the Institute. The Lab is currently performing research in the domain of Urban Mobility Infrastructure, Urban Water Management, Public Transportation Planning, Tourism Infrastructure Planning, Pedestrian Mobility Planning, Spatial Rural Development, and many other.

Vision

The vision of this lab is to produce solutions through scientific research for the issues and challenges in the domain of Infrastructure Planning

Why to Join Us?

If you are interested and passionate to conduct academic research in Infrastructure Planning, you may contact us for various opportunities

Research Areas

Urban Transport Planning

Urban Water Management

Pedestrian Mobility Planning

Regional Transport Planning

Heritage &Tourism Planning

Rural Infrastructure Planning

News Feed

  • Adithya Bandari successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis on 8 July 2024
  • Namia Islam received the Best Poster Award on Institute Research Day 2024
  • Manswinee Kar successfully defended her Ph.D. Thesis on 16 January 2024
  • Manaswinee Kar received the Best Paper Award at CTRG 2023
  • Adithya Bandari received the Best Poster Award on Institute Research Day 2023
  • Six Research Papers presented at prestigious CTRG 2023
  • Five Research Papers presented at prestigious EASTS Conference 2023
  • Two Research Papers presented at prestigious WCTR Conference 2023

Recent Publications

Pitale, A. M., Sadhukhan, S., and Parida, Manoranjan (2023). RIDIT-ISA Approach to Investigate Commuter Perceptions of an Existing Regional Transit System: A Case Study in the National Capital Region, India. Transportation Research Records . Online Link

Bandari, A., Sadhukhan, S. (2023). Efficiency of non-revenue water reduction in improving water supply performance in Indian metropolises. Water Supply, IWA Publishing. Online Link

Pitale, A. M., Parida, M., and Sadhukhan, S. (2023). Factors influencing choice riders for using park-and-ride facilities: A case of Delhi. Multimodal Transportation , Elsevier, 2. Online Link

Kar, M., Sadhukhan, S., and Parida, M. (2022). Location Planning of Park-and-Ride Facilities around Rapid Transit Systems in Cities: A Review. Journal of Urban Planning and Development ,149 (1), 1-16. Online Link

Kar, M., Sadhukhan, S., and Parida, M. (2022). Assessing commuters' perceptions towards improvement of intermediate public transport as access modes to metro stations. Transport Policy , 159, 140-155. Online Link

Bandari, A., Sadhukhan, S. (2022). Investigating the relations between performance indicators of urban water supply in India. Urban Water Journal, 19(10), 990-1004. Online Link

Pitale, A. M., Parida, M., and Sadhukhan, S. (2022). GIS-MCDM–Based Approach to Determine the Potential Facility Locations for Park-and-Ride Facilities along Transit Corridors. Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 148(1), 1–14. Online Link

Pitale, A. M., Parida, M., and Sadhukhan, S. (2022). Location Evaluation of Existing Park-and-Ride Facilities Along a Transit Corridor: A Case of Delhi MRTS. Transportation in Developing Economies, 8(2), 1–9. Online Link

Kar, M., Sadhukhan, S. , and Parida, M. (2022). Measuring heterogeneity in perceived satisfaction of private vehicle users towards attributes affecting access to metro stations: A case study of Delhi Case Studies on Transport Policy, 10(3), 1790-1803. Online Link

Bandari, A., and Sadhukhan, S. (2021). Determinants of per capita water supply in Indian cities with low surface water availability. Cleaner Environmental Systems, 3, 100062. Online Link

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Recent Achievements

  • Namia Islam received the Best Poster Award on Institute Research Day 2024
  • Adithya Bandari received the Best Poster Award on Institute Research Day 2023
  • Satyam Chaturvedi received the Best Research Poster @SPARK 2022
  • Adithya Bandari received the Best Poster Award on Institute Research Day 2022
  • Adithya Bandari, Aditya Pitale, and Abhishek Kumar selected for prestigious PMRF
  • Chetna Rathee received prestigious Commonwealth Split-sties Scholarship
  • Parnika Goyal received the Best Research Project @SPARK 2021
  • Aditya Manish Pitale received the Best Paper in SUMo 2020
  • Sayani Mandal received the Best Research Project @SPARK 2020

Research Scholars

Post Graduate Students

Projects

Research Publications