Faculty details

Prof.Leeza Malik

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Civil Engineering

Email: leeza[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

Contact Number:

Office Number: +91-326-223-5394

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About Me: Dr. Leeza Malik is Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad. She is PhD in Transportation Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Her core specialization in the field of transportation involves urban transportation planning and modelling, transportation economics, traffic safety, and traffic emission modelling. She finished her Bachelors in Civil Engineering from Panjab University Chandigarh in 2013. She was awarded University Gold Medal for her academic excellence in Civil Engineering. She later joined Indian Institute of Technology Delhi to earn her Masters and Ph.D. degree in the year 2015 and 2020 respectively. Her work focuses on developing sustainable and efficient transportation solutions, with a particular emphasis on mitigating environmental impacts and enhancing urban mobility.

Research Interest: Freight Transportation Planning and Modelling; Transportation Data Analytics and Machine Learning Applications; Electric Mobility; Congestion Pricing; Road Safety; Traffic Emissions

Teaching

  1. Transportation Statistics and Microsimulation, M.Tech and PhD
  2. Applied Engineering Statistics, PhD
  3. Research Methodology and Statistics, PhD
  4. Computational Laboratory (Transportation Planning and Modelling), M.Tech
  5. Traffic Engineering and Management, B.Tech
  6. Transportation Engineering II (Railway and Airport Engineering), B.Tech
  7. Transportation Engineering Lab, B.Tech

Academics

Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering                                                                                                      July 2015 – March 2020

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Dissertation: Externalities of Urban Freight Transport: The Case of Delhi

Supervisors: Prof. Geetam Tiwari (IIT Delhi); Prof. Johan Woxenius (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

M.Tech. in Transportation Engineering                                                                                                      July 2013 – July 2015

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi C.G.P.A: 9.21/10

Dissertation: Urban Freight-Parking Practices: The Cases of Gothenburg (Sweden) and Delhi (India) Supervisors: Prof. Geetam Tiwari (IIT Delhi); Prof. Johan Woxenius (University of Gothenburg, Sweden); Prof. Ivan Sanchez Diaz (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden)

B.E. in Civil Engineering                                                                                                      July 2009 – July 2013

Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology, Sector-26, Chandigarh (Govt. Institute under UT Admin.) Affiliated to Panjab University, Sector-14, Chandigarh

Percentage: 85.12% (University Gold Medal in Civil Engineering)

Position

Associate Editor, International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences, IATSS Research (ISSN: 0386-1112)

Awards and Honors

  1. Excellent Teaching Feedback in “CEC512-Applied Engineering Statistics” in 2022-23 Monsoon Semester by Director, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad, (No. DT/Feedback/MS 2022-23)
  2. Among the finalist globally for the Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship, 2021 (sponsored by WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities , Washington DC) for the proposal submitted on “Sustainable waste transportation through electric freight fleet in India” (Submission date 19th March, 2021).
  3. Awarded travel scholarship to present Ph.D. thesis work at Mobilize Fortaleza, Brazil (22-26 June 2019)
  4. Awarded travel scholarship to attend and present Ph.D. work in VREF Advanced Studies Institutes on Sustainable Urban Freight Systems (VASI-SUFS) workshop, New York, USA (4-11 August, 2018)
  5. Awarded Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) scholarship to collect traffic data for Ph.D. work (Session 2017-2018)
  6. Awarded Department of Science and Technology (DST) travel scholarship to present at Transport Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., USA, 2018 (7-11 January, 2018)
  7. Awarded Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) scholarship to attend 2017 METRANS International Urban Freight Conference held at Long Beach, California, USA. (17-20 October, 2017)
  8. Awarded Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) scholarship to present work at WCTR conference, Shanghai, China. (2016)
  9. Awarded Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) scholarship to pursue my M.Tech. dissertation work in Sweden (2014).
  10. Selected for Student Exchange Programme to pursue MTech. dissertation (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Session: 2014-15)
  11. Awarded Gold Medal for being overall topper of Panjab University in Civil Engineering (2013).

Publications

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

  1. Biswal, A., Singh, V.*, Malik, L., Tiwari, G., Ravindra, K. and Mor, S., (2022). Spatially resolved hourly traffic emission over megacity Delhi using advanced traffic flow data. Earth System Science Data Discussions, pp.1-37. doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-162 (Impact Factor: 11.815, SCIE, Q1)
  2. Malik, L.*, Tiwari, G., Biswas, U. and Woxenius, J., (2021) ‘Estimating urban freight flow using limited data: The case of Delhi India ’. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 149. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2021.102316 (Impact Factor: 10.6, SCIE, Q1)
  3. Malik, L.*, Tiwari, G., Thakur, S. and Kumar, A., (2019) ‘Assessment of freight vehicle characteristics and impact of future policy interventions on their emissions in Delhi’. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 67, pp.610-627. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2019.01.007 (Impact Factor: 7.6, SCIE, Q1)
  4. Malik, L.* and Tiwari, G. (2017) ‘Assessment of interstate freight vehicle characteristics and impact of future emission and fuel economy standards on their emissions in India’, Energy Policy, 108, pp. 121–133. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.05.053 (Impact Factor: 9, SCIE, Q1)
  5. Malik, L.*, Sánchez-Díaz, I., Tiwari, G. and Woxenius, J. (2017) ‘Urban freight-parking practices: The cases of Gothenburg (Sweden) and Delhi (India)’, Research in Transportation Business & Management, 24, pp. 37-48. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2017.05.002. (Impact Factor: 4.8 , SSCI)

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

  1. Sengupta, S. and Malik, L.* ‘Evaluating Range Sufficiency and Charging Infrastructure for Electric Light Commercial Vehicles in Delhi’, in CTRG 2025 (8th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India), IIT Guwahati.
  2. Biswal, A., Singh, V., Malik, L., Tiwari, G., Ravindra, K. and Mor, S., (2022). ‘Using traffic flow and speed relation to estimate hourly on-road traffic PM and NOx Emissions for Delhi.’ In Fall Meeting 2022. AGU, 2022, Chicago, IL, USA. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm22/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1163907
  3. Biswal, A., Singh, V., Malik, L., Tiwari, G., Ravindra, K. and Mor, S., (2022). ‘A spatio-temporal street scale vehicular emission model for air quality studies.’ 13th International Conference on Air Quality, Greece.
  4. Malik, L.*, Amber Gupta, Tiwari, G., (2020) ‘Accuracy assessment of using application programming interface in the development of safety performance function on Indian expressway’, Transportation Research Board 99th Annual Meeting Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C, USA. (No. 20-01281).
  5. Malik, L.*, Jindal Shukla, G. and Tiwari, G., (2018). ‘Estimation of safety performance function with limited data on highways’ Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C, USA (No. 18-03318). Available at: https://trid.trb.org/view/1495721

Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)

  1. Improvement of Life Cycle Analysis Tool in the Framework of Decarbonising Transport in Emerging Economies (DTEE) and The NCD Transport Initiative For Asia (NCD-TIA), Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development, Paris, France. (Completed)
  2. Designing Charging Infrastructure System for Heterogeneous Vehicles in Urban Networks, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad. (Completed)

Consultancy Project

Developing a Roadmap for Clean Mobility Transition in the Commercial Transportation Sector in the Eastern Regions: A case study of Bihar and Jharkhand, Centre for Studies on Environment and Climate, Asian Development Research Institute, Patna, Bihar. (Completed)

Membership of Scientific Societies

  1. Institute of Transportation Engineers
  2. Transport Research Group (India)
  3. Institute of Urban Transport (India)
  4. Indian Road Congress
  5. The Institution of Engineers (India)

Other Academic and Administrative Activities

Journals Peer Reviewer:

Energy Policy (ISSN: 0301-4215); Springer Nature (ISSN: 1573-1596); Plos One (ISSN: 1932-6203); International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion (ISSN: 1745-7319); World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research (ISSN: 1749-4737), Transport Reviews (ISSN: 1464-5327), IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (ISSN: 1943-0671), IATSS Research (ISSN: 0386-1112)

Professional outreach:

  1. MoU between IIT(ISM) Dhanbad and Centre for Studies on Environment and Climate, Asian Development Research Institute, Patna, Bihar (2023-2028).
  2. Working Group member for “India’s Zero Freight Emissions ProgramC40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (Based in London, United Kingdom)

Guidance

PhD Students: 06

S.No.

Name

Admission

Number

Dissertation Topic

Status

1

Subrajeet Sengupta

21DR0191/ Full-

time

Location of Charging Stations for Heterogeneous Electric Vehicles in Delhi

On-going

2

Sourav Mandal

22DR0225/ Full-

time

Multi-objective Optimization Framework for Determining Mixed Fleet of Electric and Conventional Freight Vehicles in Solid Waste Management

On-going

3

Ashutosh Kumar Tiwari

23DR0035/Full-

Time

Integration of Naturalistic Driving Behavior with Road Safety Audits for Enhanced Accident Risk Location Identification

On-going

4

Alaa Mahfoud

24IM0010/Full-

Time (International Student)

Analyzing Heavy Vehicle-Pedestrian Interactions at Unsignalized Intersections​

On-going

5

Ipshita Sanyal

25DR0005/Full-

Time

On-going Coursework

On-going

6

Suman Dharmasthala

25DR0064/Full-

Time

On-going Coursework

On-going

 

M.Tech Students: 05

S.No.

Name

Admission Number

Dissertation Topic

Status

1

Prashant Kumar Jha

21MT0286/Full-

time

A Comparative Framework of Road Safety Audit on Existing Roads

Completed

2

Siva P

21MT0260/ Full-

time

(Co-supervisor)

A GIS-Based Traffic Rerouting Strategy for Dhanbad

Completed

3

Abdus Salim

22MT0002/Full-Time

Mode Shift Behaviour from the Introduction of Ride-Hailing Services in Dhanbad

Completed

4

Randheer Kumar

23MT0305/ Full-

time

Sustainability Assessment of urban freight transportation in Dhanbad

Completed

B.Tech Students: 13

S.No.

Name

Admission Number

Project Topic

Status

1

Aadya Dewangan

21JE0001

Analyzing of Multimodal Integration of Delhi Metro and Buses

Completed

2-3

Shubh Yadav & Shubham Sharma

21JE0907, 21JE0909

Parking Characteristics of Freight Vehicles In Dhanbad

Completed

4-7

Neha Lalwani, Sparsh Agarwal, Vikhyat Chandra, Yashavi Garg

20JE0611, 20JE0973, 20JE1083, 20JE1117

Design of Dynamic Dashboard for Recording Indian Vehicle Characteristics

Completed

8-9

Neha Raliya & Srajan Verma

19JE0561,

19JE0819

Automated Travel Diary Generation using Mobile App

Completed

10

Sravya Pamula

18JE0574

Improvement Approaches and Techniques for Sustainable Solid Waste Transportation in Vijayawada

Completed

11

Bhumika Manker

18JE0230

Accident Reporting System

Completed

12

Nandan Kumar

18JE0519

Road Safety Audit: IIT(ISM) Main Gate

Dhanbad

Completed

13

Kaustav Chakraborty

Summer Research

Internship Program 2022

Applied Machine Learning Techniques in Transportation Systems

Completed