A n u r a g P a n d e , P h . D .
OFFICEDepartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 Phone: (805) 756-2104 Fax: (805) 756-6630
E-mail: [email protected] RESEARCH INTERESTS
Statistical Analysis of Transportation Data, Traffic Safety, Traffic Simulation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Scholarship of Teaching.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Transportation), 2005, University of Central Florida M.S. in Civil Engineering (Transportation), 2003, University of Central Florida
B.Tech. in Civil Engineering, 2002, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai (India)
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATION
Graduate Certificate in Data Mining: SAS Institute/Department of Statistics,
University of Central Florida.
THESES
Pande, A. (2005) Estimation of Hybrid Models for Real-Time Crash Risk Assessment on
Freeways, Doctoral Dissertation, University of Central Florida.
Pande, A. (2003) Classification of Traffic Speed Patterns to Predict Crashes on
Freeways, M.S. Thesis, University of Central Florida.
Pande, A. (2002) Travel Demand Forecasting for a Transportation Project, Undergraduate Thesis, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor (08/08 – Present): Department of Civil & Environmental
Engineering, Cal Poly State University.
Post-doctoral Research Associate (12/05 – 07/08): Department of Civil & Environmental
Engineering, University of Central Florida.
Graduate Research Assistant (08/02 – 12/05): Department of Civil & Environmental
Engineering, University of Central Florida.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Recipient of the Young Researcher Award — TRB Committee on Safety Data, Analysis,
and Evaluation (Selected based on the paper presented at 85th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board)
Recipient of the University-level Outstanding Dissertation Award –2006 (Selected from
all doctoral dissertations produced at UCF in 2005)
Recipient of the Presidential Doctoral Fellowship as a Doctoral student at UCF (Fall’03 through the completion of degree program)
Recipient of the Provost’s Fellowship as a Masters student at UCF (Fall’02 through the completion of degree program)
Recipient of the CATSS Scholarship as a graduate student in Transportation Engineering program at UCF (Spring 2004)
Recipient of the Best Office Bearer award at IIT Bombay for outstanding organizational skills as the General Secretary—Hall of Residence
Recipient of the National Scholarship Scheme - Merit Scholarship by Government of India for exceptional performance in Secondary School Examination
COURSE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS
CTL Technology Grant Program Phase II — Principles of Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Technology: Cal Poly Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) – Redesigning Traffic Engineering class in the hybrid mode – Spring ’09.
CTL Grant Program —Cal Poly Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) – Developing a Course on Evolution of Standards for Highway Design and Transportation Planning – Summer ’09.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
California Polytechnic State University
Introduction to Transportation Engineering (CE-221 — Fall ’08, Winter ’09)
This is an undergraduate course introducing the students to transportation engineering. The course addresses basics of highway design, transportation planning, traffic operations, and safety.
Traffic Engineering (CE-421 — Fall ’08)
This is an undergraduate/graduate course that covers principles of traffic circulation on highway systems, traffic control, traffic data collection and analysis along with capacity analysis and traffic modeling.
University of Central Florida
Geometric Design of Highways (TTE 5805 — Fall ’07)
This is an undergraduate/graduate course that covers critical aspects of highway and street design. Topics covered include the design elements (horizontal and vertical alignment), functional classification of highways, relationship between capacity and geometric design, interchanges.
SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE RESEARCH
Committee member for the following MS Theses:
¾ Prem C. Devarasetty (Winter 2009) Safety Improvements on Multilane Arterials - A Before and After Evaluation Using the Empirical Bayes Method
¾ Vasu T. Persaud (Fall 2007) Dynamic Speed Monitoring System Effectiveness on Sharp Curves.
¾ Ryan Cunningham (Summer 2007) Examining Dynamic Variable Speed Limit Strategies for the Reduction of Real-Time Crash Risk on Freeways.
¾ Hari Salkapuram (Summer 2006) A New Approach to Identify the Expected Crash Patterns based on Signalized Intersection Size and Analysis of Vehicle Movements
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Reducing Fatalities and Severe Injuries on Florida’s High-speed Multi-lane Arterial Corridors, Funded by Florida Department of Transportation (2007-2008).
Linking Crash Patterns to ITS-Related Archived Data (PHASE I & II): Developing a Hybrid Detailed Crash Prediction System using ITS Data on I-4 and Evaluating the Application Strategies, Funded by Florida Department of Transportation (2002-2008). Frequency Analysis Technique Applied to Transportation Freight, Goods, and Services Data, Funded by Florida Department of Transportation (2004-2006).
Identification of Intersections’ Crash Profiles/Patterns, Funded by Florida Department of
Transportation (2002-2008).
Using the UCF Driving Simulator as a Test Bed for High Risk Locations: Signalized Intersections and Toll Plazas, Funded by Florida Department of Transportation (2003-2004).
The Impact of Real-time and Predictive Information on I-4 Travelers, Funded by Florida
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS & ACTIVITIES
Member of the team developing Florida Strategic Highway Safety Plan (Emphasis Area — Lane Departure Crashes)
Friend of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Safety Data, Analysis, and
Evaluation (ANB20)
Invited Reviewer for the Transportation Research Board Committee on Freeway
Operations (AHB20)
Invited reviewer for the Transportation Research Board Committee on Statistical
Methodology and Statistical Computer Software in Transportation Research (ABJ80)
Invited Reviewer for the Transportation Research Board Committee on Safety Data,
Analysis, and Evaluation (ANB20)
Faculty Adjudicator for the Oral Presentation and Research Poster Competition at the
Annual Graduate Research Forum-2006 at UCF
Paper reviewer for Accident Analysis and Prevention and IEEE Transactions on
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Member of Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Chapter at Cal Poly Member of Society of Civil Engineers (SCE) Chapter at Cal Poly
CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
Session Chair: Data Mining and Analysis, 8th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vienna, September 2005.
Paper reviewer for the 9th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Toronto, Canada, September 2006.
Paper reviewer for the 8th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vienna, Austria, September 2005.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Programming Languages: Visual BASIC
Transportation/Simulation Packages: PARAMICS, Dynasmart-P, TransCAD Statistics/Analysis Software: SAS, MATLAB, R
CONTINUING EDUCATION (WORKSHOPS)
Training sessions for adjunct faculty, covering both nuts-and-bolts (rosters, legal matters, syllabi) and more general pedagogy (how to hold effective and interesting lectures, increase student engagement, and build courses that are balanced and aligned between goals, objectives, assignments, and teaching practice): UCF Faculty Center for Teaching
and Learning (FCTL) – August, 2005.
101 Tips for Teaching Large Classes: UCF Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning
(FCTL) – January, 2006.
Preventing Plagiarism with Turnitin.com: UCF Faculty Center for Teaching and
Learning (FCTL) – August, 2007.
Technology at UCF: How Do We Teach Effectively Online: UCF Faculty Center for
Teaching and Learning (FCTL) – January, 2008.
Newer Faculty Orientation: How to have a rewarding first quarter at Cal Poly: Cal Poly
Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) – September, 2008.
CTL Technology Grant Program Phase I — Principles of Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Technology: Cal Poly Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) – Fall ’08.
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Abdel-Aty M., Devarasetty P., Pande A., and Santos J. (2009) Safety Evaluation of Multilane Arterials in Florida, Forthcoming in Accident Analysis and Prevention.
Das A., Pande A., Abdel-Aty M. and Santos J. (2008) Urban Arterial Crash Characteristics related with Proximity to Intersections and Injury Severity, Journal of the
Transportation Research Board, No. 2083, pp. 137-144.
Abdel-Aty M., Pande A., Das A., and Knibbe, W. (2008) Analysis of Infrastructure Based ITS Data for Assessing Safety on Freeways in the Netherlands, Journal of the
Transportation Research Board, No. 2083, pp. 153-161.
Pande A. and Abdel-Aty M. (2008) Discovering Indirect Associations using Probe
Attributes in Crash Data from a Principal Arterial, Journal of the Transportation
Research Board, No. 2083, pp. 170-179.
Dixit V., Pande A., Radwan E., and Abdel-Aty M. (2008) Understanding the Impact of a Recent Hurricane on Mobilization Time during a Subsequent Hurricane, Journal of the
Transportation Research Board, No. 2041, pp. 49-57.
Pande A. and Abdel-Aty M. (2007) A multi-model framework for real-time crash risk
assessment, Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2019, pp. 99-107.
Pande A. and Abdel-Aty M. (2009) Association rule mining of crash data from large
jurisdictions and its potential as a decision support tool, Safety Science, Vol. 47 Issue 1, pp. 145-154.
Harb R., Radwan E., Yan X., Pande A. and Abdel-Aty M. (2007) Freeway work-zone crash analysis and risk Identification using multiple and conditional logistic regression,
Journal of Transportation Engineering, Vol. 134 Issue 5, pp. 203-214
Abdel-Aty M. and Pande A. (2007) Crash data analysis: collective vs. individual crash level approach, Journal of Safety Research, Vol. 38 Issue 5, pp. 97-108.
Pande A. and Abdel-Aty M. (2006) Assessment of freeway traffic parameters leading to
lane-change related collisions, Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol. 38 Issue 5, pp. 936-948.
Pande A. and Abdel-Aty M. (2006)1 A comprehensive analysis of the relationship between real-time traffic surveillance data and rear-end crashes on freeways, Journal of
the Transportation Research Board, No. 1953, pp. 31-40.
Abdel-Aty M. and Pande A. (2006) ATMS implementation system for identifying traffic conditions leading to potential crashes, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation
Systems, Vol. 7 Issue 1, pp. 78-91.
Pande A. and Abdel-Aty M. (2005) A freeway safety strategy for advanced proactive
traffic management, Journal of Intelligent Transportations Systems, Vol. 9 Issue 3, pp. 145-158.
Pande A., Abdel-Aty M. and Hsia L. (2005) Spatio-temporal variation of risk preceding
crash occurrence on freeways, Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1908, pp. 26-36.
Abdel-Aty M., Uddin N. and Pande A. (2005) Split models for predicting multi-vehicle crashes during high-speed and low-speed operating conditions on freeways, Journal of
the Transportation Research Board, No. 1908, pp. 51-58.
Abdel-Aty M. and Pande A. (2005) Identifying crash propensity using specific traffic speed conditions, Journal of Safety Research, Vol. 36 Issue 1, pp. 97-108.
Abdel-Aty M., Pande A., Hsia L. and Abdalla F. (2005) The potential for real-time traffic crash prediction, ITE Journal, Vol. 75 Issue 12.
Abdel-Aty M., Uddin N., Pande A., Abdalla F. and Hsia L. (2004). Predicting freeway crashes based on loop detector data using matched case-control logistic regression,
Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1897, pp. 88-95.
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REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Pande A. and Abdel-Aty M. (2009) Patterns in Severe Crashes on Segments of Multilane
Arterials with Partially Limited Access, Preprint No. TRB 09-0552, 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 2009.
Dixit V., Pande A., Abdel-Aty M., Radwan E., and Das A. (2009) Relationship of Two-Fluid Model Parameters with Safety on Arterials, Preprint No. TRB 09-0880, 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 2009.
Das A., Abdel-Aty M., Pande A., and Santos J. (2009) Severity Analysis of Crashes on Multilane Arterials Using Conditional Inference Forests, Preprint No. TRB 09-1511, 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 2009. Abdel-Aty M., Devarasetty P., Pande A., and Santos J. (2009) Evaluating Resurfacing Projects on Multilane Arterials and Identifying Best Practices, Preprint No. TRB 09-1884, 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 2009.
Harb R., Radwan E., Ramasamy S., Abdel-Aty M., Pande A., Shaaban K., and Putcha S. (2009) Two Simplified Dynamic Lane Merging Systems for Short-Term Work Zones, Preprint No. TRB 09-1668, 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 2009.
Pande A. and Abdel-Aty M. (2006) Application of Data Mining Techniques for
Real-Time Crash Risk Assessment on Freeways, 9th International Conference on Applications of Advanced Technology in Transportation (AATT) Chicago, IL, September 2006.
Pande A. and Abdel-Aty M. (2005) Identification of Rear-end Crash Patterns on
Instrumented Freeways: A Data Mining Approach, 8th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC2005), Vienna, Austria, September 2005.
Abdel-Aty M., Pande A. and Uddin N. (2005) Traffic Surveillance from a Safety Perspective: An ITS Data Application, 8th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC2005), Vienna, Austria, September 2005.
Abdel-Aty M., Uddin N. and Pande A. (2005) Improving Safety and Security by Developing a Traffic Accident Prevention System, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Safety and Security Engineering, Rome, Italy, June 2005.
Abdel-Aty M., Pande A. and Uddin N. (2005) Proactive Real-Time Safety Implementation Strategy on Freeways, 13th International Conference, Road Safety on Four Continents, Warsaw, Poland, October 2005.
Abdel-Aty M. and Pande A. (2004) Predicting Traffic Crashes using Real-Time Traffic Speed Patterns, 10th World Conference on Transport Research, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2004.
Abdel-Aty M. and Pande A. (2004) Classification of Real-Time Traffic Speed Patterns to Predict Crashes on Freeways, Preprint No. TRB 04-2635, 83rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 2004.
