Geetam Tiwari

Prof. Geetam Tiwari is currently the TRIPP Chair Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. She teaches transportation planning, traffic engineering and transport economics and finance to Masters and Bachelors students apart from guiding Ph. D students working in the area of Transport Planning, Safety and Non-motorised transport.

Tiwari finished her Bachelor of Architecture from the then University of Rourkee, Rourkee (currently Indian Institute of Technology Rourkee) in 1980 and worked for an year as Assistant Architect at the Uttar Pradesh State Construction Corporation, Lucknow. She later went to the School of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago where she did her Masters in Transport Planning and Policy and later Ph. D in Public Policy Analysis (Transport Planning). After dabbling in various professions as a Visiting faculty in the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi and as a consultant, she joined IIT Delhi in 1990 as a Senior Scientific Officer in the Applied Systems Research Programme, which would later be named as the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Program (TRIPP).

Tiwari was appointed an honorary doctor by Chalmers University, Sweden in 2012, for her visionary research and socially beneficial research on transport. She and her research group have contributed to enhanced knowledge on urban traffic patterns of various vehicles, public health effects in the urban environment and the relationship between the municipal infrastructure and traffic safety. Their research has led to concrete measures, such as the introduction of a Bus Rapid Transit Systems in Delhi, and guidelines for the design of highways and streets in urban environments. This, in turn, has resulted in improved accessibility and traffic safety, as well as fewer emissions of greenhouse gases and less pollution in general. In addition to her teaching and research, she is one of the directors of Innovative Transport Solutions (iTrans) and is part of Working groups on Urban Transport for the Twelfth Five year plan of India and the National Transport Development Policy Committee (NTDPC).

Tiwari has written, edited and contributed to various books in the field of urban transportation systems, road safety and injury prevention. These include The Way Forward : Transportation Planning And Road Safety, Injury Prevention and ControlUrban transport for growing cities: high capacity bus system, Road Traffic Injury Prevention: Training Manual. Tiwari has authored and co-authored numerous international peer-reviewed journal articles.