Ayushman Bhatt is an assistant professor of transportation engineering at the AIT Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research interests encompass transportation’s accessibility and connectivity impacts, sustainable transportation planning, and transportation policy studies. His recent work encompasses studies of externalities caused due to transportation development on socio-economic and environmental phenomena including regional innovation, urban development, agglomeration economies, urban metabolism, and anthropogenic emissions. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at the University of Tokyo and master’s at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in civil engineering. 

 

Ayushman has previously worked as research fellow at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD); postdoc at the University of Tokyo; and research associate at Asian Development Bank (ADB) Institute, the think tank of the ADB. He has published in refereed academic journals in the field of transportation research and participated in international conferences. He also actively contributes to the research activities of World Conference of Transport Research Society Special-Interest-Group-A-4 (WCTRS-SIG-A4-High-Speed Railway: Policy, Investments and Impacts). Ayushman was born and raised at Jabalpur in India, and have subsequently lived at Hyderabad, Kanpur, Tokyo, and Singapore for education and stints of work. When not working, he enjoys solo-travel, playing chess, hiking, reading, cooking, and listening to classical and instrumental music.