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Research paper thumbnail of Transport infrastructure, economic development and urbanization in India (1990–2011): Is there any causal relationship?

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2017

Development of transport infrastructure has long been taken as a major tool in promoting economic... more Development of transport infrastructure has long been taken as a major tool in promoting economic development and urbanization of a region. However, it is quite debatable whether transport infrastructure promotes economic development and urbanization, or economic development and urbanization create demand first which leads to investment in transport infrastructure. Each of the views has theoretical support. Therefore, apart from theory, empirical evidence is required to establish direction of causality, which bears serious policy implications. This study looks into different sub-sectors of transport infrastructure to find its long-run relationship and direction of causality with economic development and urbanization. It first finds the order of integration of the variables and then tries to find their causal relationship using cointegration and Granger causality test approach for India between 1990 and 2011. It uses Vector Auto-Regression and Vector Error Correction model to find short-run and long-run causality. Results showed existence of long-run relationship between transport infrastructure and economic development, and the direction of causality is from economic development to transport infrastructure in most of the cases, thus drawing support in favor of Wagner's law.

Research paper thumbnail of A multi-objective framework for analysis of road network vulnerability for relief facility location during flood hazards: A case study of relief location analysis in Bankura District, India

Transactions on GIS, Jan 14, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of A Methodology to Design a Composite Accident Index and Assess the Links in a Network Carrying Hazardous Waste: A Case Study of Kolkata Metropolitan Area

Transportation research procedia, 2016

Hazardous waste management (HWM) involves transportation, storage, handling, treatment and dispos... more Hazardous waste management (HWM) involves transportation, storage, handling, treatment and disposal of these wastes. Transportation of the wastes is the only practice in HWM which is carried out in an unregulated offsite domain. These wastes are transported from their generating units (i.e. factories) and transferred to treatment, storage and disposal facilities (TSDF) for treatment and disposal so as to cause minimum damage to the environment. The transportation activity of hazardous waste imposes huge risk on the network it uses for routing of such wastes. The risk of accident involved during routing activity of hazardous wastes occurs in a totally uncontrolled domain making it ominous. Such accidents can result in explosions, fires, toxic fumes or spills contaminating the air, water or the earth. The adjoining population exposed to such catastrophes is unaware of the procedures to handle such waste and possible consequences they pose on human health due to exposure. Thus routing ...

Research paper thumbnail of A multi-objective framework for multidimensional vulnerability assessment - Case of a coastal district of West Bengal, India

Journal of environmental management, 2019

Vulnerability assessment for disaster studies pertaining to natural hazards has evolved as a disc... more Vulnerability assessment for disaster studies pertaining to natural hazards has evolved as a discipline in itself. The multidimensional approach for the design of a vulnerability framework is widely accepted and used, where the prevalently used dimensions are economic, social, physical, environmental. Although the dimensions of vulnerability are distinct, these are commonly aggregated together to compute the overall vulnerability of a place (i.e. composite vulnerability). It is observed this practice leads to loss of information and averaging out of scores obtained from individual dimensions of vulnerability. This study proposes a new framework for assessing multidimensional vulnerability of a region in a multi-objective framework. Individual dimension of vulnerability is computed using a new aggregator function proposed in the study. The proposed methodology has been demonstrated using the case study of a coastal district (South 24 Parganas) in West Bengal, India. It is one of the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Spatio-temporal dynamics of water resources of Hyderabad Metropolitan Area and its relationship with urbanization

Research paper thumbnail of Pareto frontier analyses based decision making tool for transportation of hazardous waste

Journal of hazardous materials

Transportation of hazardous wastes through a region poses immense threat on the development along... more Transportation of hazardous wastes through a region poses immense threat on the development along its road network. The risk to the population, exposed to such activities, has been documented in the past. However, a comprehensive framework for routing hazardous wastes has often been overlooked. A regional Hazardous Waste Management scheme should incorporate a comprehensive framework for hazardous waste transportation. This framework would incorporate the various stakeholders involved in decision making. Hence, a multi-objective approach is required to safeguard the interest of all the concerned stakeholders. The objective of this study is to design a methodology for routing of hazardous wastes between the generating units and the disposal facilities through a capacity constrained network. The proposed methodology uses posteriori method with multi-objective approach to find non-dominated solutions for the system consisting of multiple origins and destinations. A case study of transpo...

Research paper thumbnail of Transport infrastructure, economic development and urbanization in India (1990–2011): Is there any causal relationship?

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2017

Development of transport infrastructure has long been taken as a major tool in promoting economic... more Development of transport infrastructure has long been taken as a major tool in promoting economic development and urbanization of a region. However, it is quite debatable whether transport infrastructure promotes economic development and urbanization, or economic development and urbanization create demand first which leads to investment in transport infrastructure. Each of the views has theoretical support. Therefore, apart from theory, empirical evidence is required to establish direction of causality, which bears serious policy implications. This study looks into different sub-sectors of transport infrastructure to find its long-run relationship and direction of causality with economic development and urbanization. It first finds the order of integration of the variables and then tries to find their causal relationship using cointegration and Granger causality test approach for India between 1990 and 2011. It uses Vector Auto-Regression and Vector Error Correction model to find short-run and long-run causality. Results showed existence of long-run relationship between transport infrastructure and economic development, and the direction of causality is from economic development to transport infrastructure in most of the cases, thus drawing support in favor of Wagner's law.

Research paper thumbnail of A multi-objective framework for analysis of road network vulnerability for relief facility location during flood hazards: A case study of relief location analysis in Bankura District, India

Transactions on GIS, Jan 14, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of A Methodology to Design a Composite Accident Index and Assess the Links in a Network Carrying Hazardous Waste: A Case Study of Kolkata Metropolitan Area

Transportation research procedia, 2016

Hazardous waste management (HWM) involves transportation, storage, handling, treatment and dispos... more Hazardous waste management (HWM) involves transportation, storage, handling, treatment and disposal of these wastes. Transportation of the wastes is the only practice in HWM which is carried out in an unregulated offsite domain. These wastes are transported from their generating units (i.e. factories) and transferred to treatment, storage and disposal facilities (TSDF) for treatment and disposal so as to cause minimum damage to the environment. The transportation activity of hazardous waste imposes huge risk on the network it uses for routing of such wastes. The risk of accident involved during routing activity of hazardous wastes occurs in a totally uncontrolled domain making it ominous. Such accidents can result in explosions, fires, toxic fumes or spills contaminating the air, water or the earth. The adjoining population exposed to such catastrophes is unaware of the procedures to handle such waste and possible consequences they pose on human health due to exposure. Thus routing ...

Research paper thumbnail of A multi-objective framework for multidimensional vulnerability assessment - Case of a coastal district of West Bengal, India

Journal of environmental management, 2019

Vulnerability assessment for disaster studies pertaining to natural hazards has evolved as a disc... more Vulnerability assessment for disaster studies pertaining to natural hazards has evolved as a discipline in itself. The multidimensional approach for the design of a vulnerability framework is widely accepted and used, where the prevalently used dimensions are economic, social, physical, environmental. Although the dimensions of vulnerability are distinct, these are commonly aggregated together to compute the overall vulnerability of a place (i.e. composite vulnerability). It is observed this practice leads to loss of information and averaging out of scores obtained from individual dimensions of vulnerability. This study proposes a new framework for assessing multidimensional vulnerability of a region in a multi-objective framework. Individual dimension of vulnerability is computed using a new aggregator function proposed in the study. The proposed methodology has been demonstrated using the case study of a coastal district (South 24 Parganas) in West Bengal, India. It is one of the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Spatio-temporal dynamics of water resources of Hyderabad Metropolitan Area and its relationship with urbanization

Research paper thumbnail of Pareto frontier analyses based decision making tool for transportation of hazardous waste

Journal of hazardous materials

Transportation of hazardous wastes through a region poses immense threat on the development along... more Transportation of hazardous wastes through a region poses immense threat on the development along its road network. The risk to the population, exposed to such activities, has been documented in the past. However, a comprehensive framework for routing hazardous wastes has often been overlooked. A regional Hazardous Waste Management scheme should incorporate a comprehensive framework for hazardous waste transportation. This framework would incorporate the various stakeholders involved in decision making. Hence, a multi-objective approach is required to safeguard the interest of all the concerned stakeholders. The objective of this study is to design a methodology for routing of hazardous wastes between the generating units and the disposal facilities through a capacity constrained network. The proposed methodology uses posteriori method with multi-objective approach to find non-dominated solutions for the system consisting of multiple origins and destinations. A case study of transpo...