Ashish Khokhar
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Ashish Khokhar
Ph.D. Programme in Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Specialising in Transportation Engineering (Road Safety)
Ph.D. Admission Year: 2021
Guide: Dr. S.Y. Mhaske
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Biography
I am a result-oriented professional with the ability to adapt swiftly in an exigent environment while simultaneously ensuring a high-performance culture. I am a technical postgraduate in Highway Safety and Engineering with CSIR CRRI hands-on training in Road Safety and related aspects. I
am an enthusiastic learner and a curious researcher.
Academic Information (Degrees/Education)
- M.Tech. in Civil Engineering (Highway Safety and Engineering)
- B.Tech. in Civil Engineering
- Qualified GATE in Civil Engineering in 2017
Area of Research
Geospatial technology-based road safety audit of hill road
Research Interests
- Transportation Engineering
- Road Safety
- Traffic Studies
- Accident Analysis
- GIS
- Highway Engineering
Research Grant
Doctoral Fellowship from AICTE, New Delhi
Professional Affiliation
Certified Road Safety Auditor by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India Trained at CSIR-CRRI, New Delhi, India from November 4, 2019 – November 18, 2019
https://omms.nic.in/ReferenceDocs/ListofCertifiedRoadSafetyAuditors.pdf
Professional Experience
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
Highway Safety Engineer at Sumanil Designers and Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Uttar Pradesh, India
Roles and responsibilities included compilation of Road Safety Audit reports, supervising a team of draftspersons and total station surveyors, site visits for inventories, meetings with Public Works Department officials, etc.
Publications
- Ashish and Sumedh Mhaske, “Road Safety Audit (RSA) guidelines of selected nations – a comparative review,” Journal of Road Safety, (2023), 34(4), 42-50 [SCI]
- Ashish and Sachin Dass, “Safety Provisions on an Other District Road – A Case Study of Bhitoura-Shahi-Shergarh-Baheri Road,” IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, (2023) Web of Science [accepted]
- Ashish, Sachin Dass, Saurabh Jaglan, Aman Ahlawat and Manju Suthar, “A Case Study on Pre-Opening Stage Road Safety Audit,” IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, (2021), Volume 889. SCOPUS.
- Presented a paper titled “Safety Provisions on an Other District Road – A Case Study of Bhitaura-Shahi-Shergarh-Baheri Road” in 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Construction Technologies and Advancements in Civil Engineering (ScTACE) organised by Department of Civil Engineering, Shri Vishnu Engineering College for Women (Autonomous) in association with Indian Concrete Institute – Student Chapter on 15-12-2022.
- Presented a paper titled “A Case Study on Pre-opening Stage Road Safety Audit” in Indo European Conference On Sustainable Materials, Environment and Construction (COSMEC) organised by University Center for Research and Development and Department of Civil Engineering, Chandigarh University on 24-09-2021.
- Presented a paper titled “Accident Analysis of Intercity Roads of Sonipat: A Comparative Research” in National Hybrid Conference on Research and Innovations in Civil Engineering and Architecture (RICEA) organised by RV College of Engineering and RV College of Architecture in association with ASCE Student Chapter and ICI Student Chapter on 30-07-2022.
- Presented a paper titled “A Case Study of Project Management by a Private Consultancy Firm: Road Safety Audit Challenges and Solutions” in National Hybrid Conference on Research and Innovations in Civil Engineering and
Architecture (RICEA) organised by RV College of Engineering and RV College of Architecture in association with ASCE Student Chapter and ICI Student Chapter on 30-07-2022. (Best paper presentation award) - Presented a paper titled “Sub-soil Investigation” in Innovative Trends and Technologies in Computing Environment (ITTCE) organised by Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Information Technology on 12-04-2017.
- Selected for poster presentation titled “Safety provisions on an Other District Road – a case study” in 2nd International Traffic Safety Conference (ITSC) under the patronage of His Excellency Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz Al-Thani, Prime Minister and Minister of Interior of the State of Qatar, Qatar Transportation and Traffic Safety Center at Qatar University, and the National Traffic Safety Committee in 2023.
