Sandip Chakrabarti

Area

Primary Area : Public Systems

Contact

Email : sandipc@iima.ac.in

Phone : +91-79-7152 4949

Secretary : Suresh Mannem

Phone : +91-79-7152 7975

Website : Personal Website

Education

Ph.D., Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, 2015

Teaching

MBA Core:

Government Systems and the Policy Process
Business, Environment and Sustainability

MBA Electives:

Innovations in Managing Urban Transport
Urban Economy and Business Environment
Experiments for Business and Policy Decision-making

ePGP (e-MBA) Electives:

Managing Transportation
Experiments for Business and Policy Decision-making

Ph.D. Core

Research Communication
Methods in Policy Analysis and Research
Public Finance

Ph.D. Elective

Public Policy and Economics of the Transport Sector

Faculty Development Programme (FDP)

Public Policy and Development
GIS and Spatial Analysis (guest session)
Smart Cities - Planning and Policy Issues (guest session)

Previously, at the University of Southern California and the University of New Orleans

Institutional and Policy Issues in Transportation
Land Use - Transportation Interactions
Environmental Justice in Cities
Urban Social Policy

Research Area

Transport policy analysis

Transportation demand analysis and modeling

Land use-transportation interactions

Travel behavior/choice analysis

Public transit planning and policy

Active travel

Parking

Multi-modal system performance measurement and monitoring

Impact analysis of new transportation investments

Applications of big data in transportation

Academic Experience

Associate Professor, Public Systems Group, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, (2021-present)

Assistant Professor, Public Systems Group, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-2021

Assistant Professor, Department of Planning and Urban Studies, UNO Transportation Institute, University of New Orleans, 2016-2017

Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate, METRANS Transportation Center, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, 2015-2016

Doctoral Research Fellow, METRANS Transportation Center, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, 2010-2015

Researcher, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Summer 2013

Research Associate, Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2007-2008

Academic Services

Referee:

Urban Studies (SAGE), Transportation Research Part A (Elsevier), Journal of Transport Geography (Elsevier), International Journal of Sustainable Transportation (Taylor and Francis), Transport Policy (Elsevier), Travel Behavior and Society (Elsevier), Public Transport (Springer), Journal of Urban Technology (Taylor and Francis), Transportation Research Board, Transportation Research Record Journal (SAGE), Trasportation in Developing Economies (Springer)

Professional Services

Expert panels:

Member, Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Panel on Electric Battery Buses - State of the Practice, Transportation Research Board, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2016-17); Friend member of several standing committees of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, USA; Planning committee member, 2017 GIS in Transit Conference, Washington, DC.

Funded Research Projects

Economic impacts of rural road connectivity investments: A case study of India's PMGSY, PI, IIM Ahmedabad (INR 2,00,000).

National Capital Region Travel Survey, PI, IIM Ahmedabad (INR 2,00,000).

Application of a Regional Multi-Modal Transportation System Performance Monitoring Framework, Research Associate/co-PI, University of Southern California. Funded by: U.S. Department of Transportation (US$100,000). PI: Genevieve Giuliano. 2015-16.

The Decline in Inter- and Intra-Urban Mobility and its Impact on Passenger Travel, Research Associate/co-PI, University of Southern California. Funded by: California Department of Transportation (US$99,945). PI: Gary Painter. 2015-16.

Archived Data Management System Maintenance, Research Associate, University of Southern California. Funded by: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (US$480,000). PI: Genevieve Giuliano. 2015-16.

Archived Data Management System (ADMS) for the Regional Integration of Intelligent Transportation Systems (RIITS) project in Los Angeles, Research Assistant, University of Southern California. Funded by: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority ($ 912,468). PI: Genevieve Giuliano and Cyrus Shahabi. 2010-15.

Housing Affordability and Transit-Oriented Development in Los Angeles: A Challenge and an Opportunity, Research Assistant, University of Southern California. Funded by: California Community Foundation. PI: Marlon Boarnet. 2015.

Does Service Reliability Promote Transit Use? PI, University of Southern California. Funded by: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (US$10,000). 2014-15.

The Demand for Reliable Travel: Evidence from Los Angeles, and Implications for Policy, PI, University of Southern California. Funded by: Lusk Center for Real Estate, University of Southern California (US$20,000). 2013-14.

The Los Angeles Expo Light Rail Line: A Study of Travel and Physical Activity Change Associated with a New Light Rail Line, Research Assistant, University of Southern California. Funded by: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, SCAG, Haynes Foundation. PI: Marlon Boarnet and Douglas Houston. 2013

Journals

Hong, A. & Chakrabarti, S. (2023). Compact living or policy inaction? Effects of urban density and lockdown on the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. Urban Studies, 60(9), 1588-1609.

Chakrabarti, S., Kushari, T., & Mazumder, T. (2022). Does transportation network centrality determine housing price?. Journal of Transport Geography, 103, 103397.

Chakrabarti, S. (2022). Passively wait for gridlock, or proactively invest in service? Strategies to promote car-to-transit switches among aspirational urbanites in rapidly developing contexts. Transport Policy, 115, 251-261.

He, S., Chakrabarti, S. & Cheung, Y. (2020). A time-use perspective of out-of-home activity participation by older people in Hong Kong. Asian Geographer 1-23.

Giuliano, G., & Chakrabarti, S. (2020). Analyzing intra-metropolitan variation in highway traffic performance in Los Angeles using archived real-time data. Transportation Planning and Technology, 43(8), 751-770.

Chakrabarti, S. & Joh, K. (2019). The effect of parenthood on travel behavior: Evidence from the California Household Travel Survey. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 120, 101-115.

Turaga, R., Jha-Thakur, U., Chakrabarti, S., & Hossain, D. (2019). Exploring the role of Urban Green Spaces in 'smartening' cities in India. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2019.1690864

Chakrabarti, S. & Tatavarthy, A. (2019). The geography of medical travel in India: Differences across states, and the urban-rural divide. Applied Geography, 107, 12-25.

Chakrabarti, S. & Joh, K. (2019). The effect of parenthood on travel behavior: Evidence from the California Household Travel Survey. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 120, 101-115.

Chakrabarti, S. & Painter, G. (2019). Geographic mobility of recent immigrants and urban transit demand in the U.S.: New evidence and planning implications. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 120, 71-82.

Chakrabarti, S. (2018). Does Telecommuting Promote Sustainable Travel and Physical Activity? Journal of Transport and Health, 9, 19-33.

Chakrabarti, S. (2018). Can Highway Development Promote Employment Growth in India? Transport Policy, 69, 1-9.

Chakrabarti, S. (2017). How can public transit get people out of their cars? An analysis of transit mode choice for commute trips in Los Angeles. Transport Policy, 54, 80-89.

Chakrabarti, S., & Shin, E. J. (2017). Automobile dependence and physical inactivity: Insights from the California Household Travel Survey. Journal of Transport and Health, 6, 262-271.

Giuliano, G., Chakrabarti, S., & Rhoads, M. (2016). Using Regional Archived Multimodal Transportation System Data for Policy Analysis A Case Study of the LA Metro Expo Line. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 36(2), 195-209 [Chester Rapkin Best Paper Award by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Denver, 2017].

Joh, K., Chakrabarti, S., Boarnet, M. G., & Woo, A. (2015). The Walking Renaissance: A Longitudinal Analysis of Walking Travel in the Greater Los Angeles Area, USA. Sustainability, 7(7), 8985-9011.

Chakrabarti, S., & Giuliano, G. (2015). Does service reliability determine transit patronage? Insights from the Los Angeles Metro bus system. Transport Policy, 42, 12-20.

Chakrabarti, S. (2015). The demand for reliable transit service: New evidence using stop level data from the Los Angeles Metro bus system. Journal of Transport Geography, 48, 154-164.

Chakrabarti, S. (2011). The Influence of Urban Spatial Structure on Travel Behavior – A Literature Review. Journal of the School of Planning and Architecture, India: New Dimensions in Research of Environments for Living, 2, 87-95.

Chakrabarti, S. & Mazumder, T. (2010). Behavioral Characteristics of Car Parking Demand: A Case Study of Kolkata. Journal of the Institute of Town Planners, India, 7:4, 1-11.

Chakrabarti, S. & Mazumder, T. (2008). The Economics of Off-Street Parking. Spatio-Economic Development Record, 15:2.

Mazumder, T. & Chakrabarti, S. (2008). Rising Car Ownership and Parking Infrastructure in Indian Cities – Problems and Prospects. ABACUS (Internationally refereed journal of the Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, India), 3:2, 35-42.

Nigam, N. S., Mazumder, T. & Chakrabarti, S. (2008). Planning for Fast Emerging Rural Growth Nodes in Transition – A Case Study of Panagarh. Journal of the Institute of Town Planners, India, 5:2, 6-18.

Edited Books

He, S. Y., Chakrabarti, S., Cheung, Y. H. Y., & Ngai, W. W. K. (2019). The out-of-home activities of older people in Hong Kong: A time-use study. Transportation Research Procedia, 41, 807-810.

Giuliano, G., Chakrabarti, S., & Rhoads, M. (2015). Transport Geography. In J. D. Wright (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, Elsevier (pp. 607-615).

Academic Conferences

Chakrabarti, S. (2019). Gender differences in commute travel: New insights from urban India. Paper presented by Sandip Chakrabarti at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, 2019, Los Angeles.

Chakrabarti, S. (2019). Road investment and economic development in rural areas: Lessons from India's PMGSY. Paper presented by Sandip Chakrabarti at the 59th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), 2019, Greenville, SC.

Chakrabarti, S., & Painter, G. D. (2018). Does Inter-Urban Migration of Immigrants Affect Public Transit Demand?. Paper presented by Sandip Chakrabarti at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Washington, D.C

He, S., Chakrabarti, S., Cheung, Y., & Ngai, W. (2018). A time-use perspective on the out-of-home activities of older people in Hong Kong. Paper presented by S. He at the International Scientific Conference on Mobility and Transport, Munich, Germany.

Hong, A., Chakrabarti, S., & Zou, Z. (2018) Transit Desirability: A novel market segmentation approach for predicting customer retention. Paper presented by Z. Zou at the 2018 ACSP Annual Conference, Buffalo, NY

Chakrabarti, S. (2018). The rise of ride-hailing, and its impact on urban mobility: New evidence from India. Paper presented by Sandip Chakrabarti at the Association of European Schools of Planning Annual Congress 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.

He, S., Chakrabarti, S., Cheung, Y., & Ngai, W. (2018). A time-use perspective on the out-of-home activities of older people in Hong-Kong, Transportation Research Procedia, Forthcoming.

Giuliano, G., & Chakrabarti, S. (2018). Big Data and Policy Analysis: The Case of the LA Metro Expo Line, Transfers, Issue 2, Fall 2018.

Giuliano, G., & Chakrabarti, S. (2016, 2018). Application of the Los Angeles Archived Data Management System (ADMS) to analyze intra-metropolitan variation in highway and arterial system performance. Paper presented by Genevieve Giuliano at the 56th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland, and at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association, Pasadena, California

Chakrabarti, S., Painter, G. D., & Valdez, A. (2016). The Decline of Inter-Urban Migration and Its Impact on Public Transit Ridership. Paper presented by Sandip Chakrabarti at the 56th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland.

Chakrabarti, S. (2015). The Demand for Reliable Transit Service: New Evidence Using Stop Level Data from the Los Angeles Metro Bus System. Paper presented by Sandip Chakrabarti at the 55th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Houston

Giuliano, G., Rhoads, M. & Chakrabarti, S. (2014). New Data, New Applications: A Method for Transportation System Performance Monitoring. Paper presented by Genevieve Giuliano at the 54th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Philadelphia. (This paper was also presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association in San Diego, 2014, and at the 62nd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International in Washington, D.C., 2014

Chakrabarti, S. (2014). The Demand for Reliable Travel: Analyzing the Influence of Service Reliability on Transit Mode Choice. Paper presented by Sandip Chakrabarti at the 54th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Philadelphia.

Giuliano, G., Rhoads, M. & Chakrabarti, S. (2014). New data, new applications: using transportation system data for regional monitoring. Proceedings of the 2014 Transport Research Arena, Paris.

Giuliano, G. & Chakrabarti, S. (2013). New Applications for Real-Time Transportation System Data: Analyzing Impacts of Rail Transit Investments. Paper presented by Sandip Chakrabarti at the 54th Transportation Research Forum, Annapolis MD.

Chakrabarti, S. (2013). The Demand for Reliable Travel: Theory, Evidence, and a Research Agenda. Paper presented by Sandip Chakrabarti at the Joint AESOP-ACSP Congress, Dublin, Ireland.

Schweitzer, L. & Chakrabarti, S. (2012). Too Much Democracy, or Too Little? California's High Speed Rail and Environmental Review. Paper presented by Sandip Chakrabarti at the Symposium on High-Speed Rail & Sustainability, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA

Chakrabarti, S. (2009). Behavioral Characteristics of Automobile Parking Demand and Planning for Off-street Parking Facilities. Paper presented by Sandip Chakrabarti at the 57th National Town and Country Planners' Congress, Goa, India.

Working Papers & Projects

Analysis of the 2018 National Capital Region Travel Survey

Mobility patterns of the elderly (with Manish Shirgaokar, UC Denver)

Analysis of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana

Analysis of regional and gender differences in commute travel in India

Academic Presentation

Invited speaker at the ICUSE-2020 Conference organized by the Centre for Urban Science & Engineering, IIT Bombay, February 28-29, 2020.

Invited to the Volvo Research and Education Foundations (VREF) 2018 Urban Freight Conference, October 17-19, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Invited Speaker, Special Session on "National Household Travel Survey in India," RATE-2018 Conference, Surat, 2018.

Distinguished Speaker, Plenary Session on "Technologies for Managing Smart Cities," Infocomm-India, Mumbai, 2017.

Speaker, "How Big Data will change planning," ACSP Annual Meeting, Portland, 2016.

Discussant, "Managing (Not Solving) Cities' Transportation Problems through Change in Policy and Investment," University of Southern California, 2014.

Member, panel discussion on "Environment and Transportation," L.A. Policy Symposium, RAND Corporation, Los Angeles, 2013.

Speaker, "Too Much Democracy, or Too Little? California's High Speed Rail and Environmental Review," Symposium on High-Speed Rail & Sustainability, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, 2012.

Other Publications

Painter, G. D., & Chakrabarti, S. (2017). The Decline in Inter- and Intra-Urban Mobility and its Impact on Passenger Travel. California Department of Transportation (METRANS Tier-1 UTC project).

Giuliano, G. & Chakrabarti, S. (2017). Application of a Regional Multi-Modal Transportation System Performance Monitoring Framework. U.S. Department of Transportation (METRANS Tier-1 UTC project).

Giuliano, G., Chakrabarti, S., & Rhoads, M. (2015). Integrated Corridor Monitoring Application: Case Study of the LA Metro Expo Line. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Giuliano, G., Chakrabarti, S., Rhoads, M., & Hou, Y. (2015). Regional Multimodal Transportation System Monitoring: A New Approach. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Giuliano, G., Chakrabarti, S., Demiryurek, U., Rhoads, M., & Hou, Y. (2015). Archived Data Management System: Web Application Graphical User Interface for Regional Multimodal Transportation System Monitoring. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Giuliano, G., Chakrabarti, S., Demiryurek, U., Showalter, C., Rhoads, M., & Hou, Y. (2015). Archived Data Management System: White Paper on Long-Term Research, Development, and Technology Transfer. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Giuliano, G., Chakrabarti, S., & Rhoads, M. (2015). Integrated Corridor Management Application: Case study of LA Metro Expo Line Phase 1. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Boarnet, M. G., Chakrabarti, S., Bostic, R., Rodnyansky, S., Morrison-Hawkins, B., Santiago-Bartolomei, R., & Wang, X. (2015). Housing Affordability and Transit-Oriented Development in Los Angeles: A Challenge and an Opportunity. California Community Foundation.

Chakrabarti, S. & Giuliano, G. (2014). Does service reliability influence transit patronage? Evidence from Los Angeles, and implications for transit policy. USC Lusk Center for Real Estate Working Paper.

Chakrabarti, S. (2014). A Review of "An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions". Journal of the American Planning Association, 80:2, 189-190

Giuliano, G., Schweitzer, L., Chakrabarti, S., Rhoads, M. & Huang, Y. (2012). Study of Existing and Planned RIITS (Regional Integration of ITS) Network Data Sources. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Giuliano, G., Schweitzer, L., Chakrabarti, S., Rhoads, M. & Huang, Y. (2012). Application of the Archived Data Management System for Corridor Monitoring, Regional Monitoring, and Incident Management. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Awards & Honors

2017 - Chester Rapkin Award for Best Paper in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, U.S. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning

2013 - Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Southern California

2009 - V.N. Prasad National Best Thesis Award (Gold Medal), Institute of Town Planners, India

2009 - Mott MacDonald Professional Excellence (Best Paper) Award

2008 - S.N. Haldar (Regional) Best Thesis Award (Gold Medal), Institute of Town Planners, India

2014-15 - C. Lowell Harriss (International) Dissertation Fellowship, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2014-15

2013-14 - Lusk Center for Real Estate Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2013-14

2010-13 - Sol Price School of Public Policy Doctoral Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2010-13

2018 - Conference Travel Scholarship, Volvo Education and Research Foundations

2014 - Conference Travel Scholarship, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning

2013 - Hagman Scholarship, 27th Land Use Law and Planning Conference, UCLA

2013 - AESOP-ACSP Conference Travel Scholarship, University of Southern California

Communications committee member, Global Planning Educators' Interest Group (GPEIG), Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), USA.

2016-17 - Member, Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Panel on Electric Battery Buses - State of the Practice, Transportation Research Board, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2016-17

Urban Transportation Monitor (Volume 29, Number 10, December 31)

, 2015

ABC News Los Angeles affiliate KABC-AM (live interview on November 23,), KCRW-FM, CBS News Los Angeles affiliate KNX-AM

, 2015