Chalasani, V. Saikumar

WSP Middle East Ltd. V. Saikumar Chalasani P.O. Box 7497 - Dubai UNITED ARAB EMIRATES E-Mail:

Interests

• Data fusion techniques and applications
• Bayesian networks
• Graphical models and causality
• Travel data archiving
• Metadata - Travel D D I
• Travel survey methodologies
• Travel demand modelling

Dissertation

"Optimisation of travel demand data using data fusion techniques"

Projects

• 2003 - 2006
  OPUS - Optimising the use of Partical use of information in Urban and regional Systems
• 2002 - 2006
  ETH Travel Data Archive (ETHTDA)
• 2004 - 2006
  Travel Survey Metadata Series (TSMS)

Employment Experience

since 2001

Research assistant at IVT ETH Zürich

Education

1999-2001

M.Tech. in Civil Engineering (Transportation engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology (IITM), Chennai, India
Thesis: "Traffic segregation on urban arterials: A case study"

1994-1998

B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India
Thesis: "Planning and Design of Road and Water network for a proposed REC Employees colony"

Publications

• Chalasani, V.S. and K.W.Axhausen (2007) Zurich Case study II: O-D matrix update with multiple sources , OPUS Deliverable, D9.3, report to the EU commission, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Chalasani, V.S. and K.W.Axhausen (2006) Zurich Case study 1 : Combining travel information from multiple data sources , OPUS Deliverable, D9.2, report to the EU commission, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Chalasani, V.S. and K.W.Axhausen (2006) A report on Updated Database on Transport Information for Zurich , OPUS Deliverable, D9.1, report to the EU commission, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Chalasani, V.S. and K.W. Axhausen (2005) A conceptual model for integrating Transport and Spatial data, in R. Khan, R. Banks, R. Cornelius, S. Evans and T. Manners (eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd ASC International Conference on Survey Research Methods "Maximising Data Value - Data use and re-use", 123-135, ASC, Chesham.
• Chalasani, V.S., Ø. Engebretsen, J.M. Denstadli and K.W. Axhausen (2005) Precision of geocoded locations and network distance estimates, Journal of Transportation and Statistics, 8 (2) 1-15.
• Chalasani, V.S. (2005) Enriching household travel survey data: Experiences from the Microcensus 2000, paper presented at the 5th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, March 2005.
• Chalasani, V.S. (2004) Travel data archiving: An art of presenting and preserving travel survey data, paper presented at the 4th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, March 2004.
• Thamizh Arasan, V. and V.S. Chalasani (2004) Traffic seggregation on urban arterial: A case study, Indian Highways, 32 (8) 103-114.

Working papers and E-Collections

• Chalasani, V. S. and K.W. Axhausen (2007) Temporal fusion of the travel demand data, Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 433, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Chalasani, V. S. (2004) Travel module of Swiss Household Income and Consulption survey (1998), Travel Survey Metadata Series, 6, Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme (IVT), ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Chalasani, V. S. (2004) Mobidrive 1999, Travel Survey Metadata Series, 2, Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme (IVT), ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Chalasani, V. S. (2004) Swiss travel behaviour Microcensus 2000, Travel Survey Metadata Series, 1, Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Transportsysteme (IVT), ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Chalasani, V. S. and K.W. Axhausen (2004) Travel distances estimations from household travel survey data: The case of Microcensus 2000, Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 224, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Chalasani, V. S. and K.W. Axhausen (2004) A comparison of Swiss household travel surveys: EVE 1998, MZ 2000, and SRM2001, Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 174, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Chalasani, V. S., S. Schönfelder and K.W. Axhausen (2002) Archiving travel data: The Mobidrive example, Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 129, IVT, ETH Zürich, Zürich.
• Thamizh Arasan, V. and V.S. Chalasani (2001) "Traffic Segregation on Urban Arterials: A Case Study (Abstract)", Highway Research Record, 28, 165-166.