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bhat@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-4535
Office Location: ECJ 6.810

Chandra Bhat

Professor

Joe J. King Chair in Engineering

Area(s) of Expertise:
Transportation Engineering

Educational Qualifications:
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1991
M.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987
B.T., Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 1985

Technical Interests:

  • Social and environmental implications of transportation
  • Discoveries, recognized theories, and insights to examine the inter-linkages between human behavioral dynamics and activity-travel choices
  • Built environments, especially at the interface of transportation, urban policy design, public health, energy dependence, sustainable development and greenhouse gas emissions
  • Connected and automated smart transportation systems (CASTS)
  • Behavioral and planning implications of CASTS while considering cybersecurity and wireless routing
  • Investigating the potential land-use, technology adoption behavior and activity-travel behavior effects of CASTS
  • Data science and predictive analytics
  • Cutting-edge methods on data collection design and data analysis
  • Econometric choice methods
  • Predictive analytics for transportation policy analysis and forecasting

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