Designation: Professor and Associate Director (Institutional Development)
Education:
- B Sc. (Engg.) Degree in Civil Engineering from University of Kerala (1983), in First Class with Distinction
- M. Tech. Degree in Transportation and Traffic Engineering from University of Kerala (1986), in First Class with Distinction
- Ph. D. in Transportation Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2004)
Professional Experience
- Industry-2 years (Assistant Engineer, Rubber Board, Govt of India)
- Teaching-35 years (30 years at TKM College of Engineering)
- Research Interest: Traffic Planning, Simulation Modeling, Road Safety, Pavement Engineering, Intelligent Transport Systems
- Research Citations: more than 500 in Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=w0iHGDoAAAAJ&hl=en)
- Approved research guide of the Kerala Technological University and University of Kerala
- Presently guiding 7 PhD scholars
- Principal investigator for AICTE RPS and MODROBS projects
- Resource person for FDPs at IITs and NITs
- Reviewer of journals (Springer)
Consultancy and Sponsored Projects
- Modelling and Study of the Characteristics of Motorised Two-Wheeler Traffic on Urban Roads. (Funded by the AICTE under the Research Promotion Scheme of 2008-09. Amount – 7.1 Lakhs)
- Socio-Economic Impact Assessment of Neendakara Fishing Harbour (Collaborative project with the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, completed in 2008 for the Government of Kerala. Amount- 3.5 Lakhs
- Awarded a MODROBS project for the Modernization of Transportation Engineering Laboratory of Rs. 10 Lakhs (2012-13)
- Design and Estimation of Rural Roads under PMGSY Programme in Chirayinkeezhu Block, Project done for the District Rural Road Development Agency (DRDA), Trivandrum (2006)
- Planning of a New International Terminal for Cochin International Airport, Collaborative project with KITCO (Technical consultant of Cochin International Airport Ltd.) (2000)
- Environmental Impact Assessment of Vizhinjam Deepwater International Transhipment Container Terminal Project, Harbour Engineering Department, Government of Kerala (2007)
- Distress identification and estimation in flexible pavement using image processing – Rs. 72,000 /- funded by KTU CERD (Co-PI) 2018
- Automated pothole sealer- Rs. 25,000 /- for student project of KTU CERD (Co- PI) 2018
- Development of a low-cost mechanism for pavement performance evaluation-Rs. 34,000/-funding for student project of KTU CERD (Principal Investigator) 2019
- Development of sustainable and durable pavement for low volume roads (Joint project with NIT Warangal and TKM College of Engineering) funding of Rs 25,00,000/- by Alapuzha Jilla Panchayath (March 2020)
- MODRB project (AICTE) for an amount of 10,98,039/- for the modernisation of Transportation Engineering laboratory (Sep 2020)
- Study of Emulsified Aggregate Base funded by Hincol (Hindusthan Petroleum) for an amount of Rs. 1,90,000/- (principal Investigator) Oct 2020
Awards and Honours
- Received the Letter of Appreciation in 2010, for scoring the best Teaching Effectiveness Index
- Won the prize for the Best Lecturer based on technical lecture competition held at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, in July 1996
- Invited as a resource person for the QIP Faculty Development Program (FDP) on “Sustainable Urban Transportation System Planning”, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, December 2000
- Invited to deliver a talk on ‘Research Methodology’ to the Ph.D. and MS research scholars of the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Sep 2002
- Invited to deliver a talk on ‘Mode Choice Modelling for Transportation Planning’ to the Dual Degree and Post-graduate students of the Transportation Engineering Division, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Jan 2003.
- Invited to deliver a lecture on ‘Simulation of Road Traffic Flow’ to the Undergraduate and Postgraduate students of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, March 2003
- Delivered an invited technical presentation on ‘Simulation of Heterogeneous Traffic to Derive Capacity and Service Volume Standards for Urban Roads’ during the 65th Annual Meeting of the Indian Roads Congress, Bangalore, January 2005
- Invited as a resource person for the AICTE sponsored Faculty Development Programme on Maintenance, Repair and Retrofit of Constructed Facilities at the Department of Architecture, National Institute of Technology, Calicut (2010)
- Chaired a technical session of National Conference on Technological Trends (NCCT-06), Nov 17-18, 2006, College of Engineering, Trivandrum
- Chaired a technical session of National conference FACE 2007, at TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, 2007
- Moderated a technical session of Vastheya-05, National Level Technical Symposium, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kottayam, April 2005
- Chaired a technical session of NCTT-09, National Conference on Technological Trends, Nov 06-07, 2009, College of Engineering, Trivandrum
- Chaired a technical session of NCCT- 2011 National Conference on Technological Trends, College of Engineering, Trivandrum. Aug 2011
- Invited by the Government of Kerala to moderate the State Level Inauguration of the Social Auditing of PWD works in Kerala, 2010
- Invited as a resource person for the ISTE sponsored Faculty Development Programme on Paradigms, Perspectives and New Trends in Research, TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, Nov 2011
- Chaired a session of the International Conference on Modelling and Simulation in Civil Engineering (ICMSC), TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, December 2011
- Inaugurated the Civil Engineering Association of Sree Buddha College of Engineering, Pattoor, Pandalam and delivered a talk on ‘Management of road traffic dominated by motorized two wheelers’, March 2012
- Invited by the DTE as a visiting faculty to the M. Tech. Programme of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology (Government Engineering College), Kottayam, March 2012
- Inaugurated the Civil Engineering Association of Bishop Jerome Institute of Technology, Kollam and delivered a keynote address on ‘Innovative techniques in traffic management’, July 2013
- Chaired a technical session of NCCT- 2013, National Conference on Technological Trends, College of Engineering, Trivandrum, Aug 2013
- Invited to serve as the Member, Department Consultative Committee, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2001-02)
- Awarded travel grant from TEQIP II for attending the International Conference on Advances in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (ACSEE) Zurich, Switzerland, 12-13 October, 2013
- M Tech project titled “Study of Passenger Car Equivalents at Signalized Intersections” guided at RIT Kottayam won the prize for the best M Tech thesis for the year, 2013
- Invited to contribute to popular article in newspaper Mathrubhoomi (15-10-2008)
- Invited to contribute to popular article in newspaper Mathrubhoomi (14-10-2009)
- Invited to contribute to popular article in newspaper Mathrubhoomi (4-11-2009)
- Chaired a session of National Technological Congress (NATCON) 2013 at RIT, Kottayam
- Invited as a Resource person to the Colloquium on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management-CTSEM 2014, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, May 2014
- Invited to chair a session of 27 th Kerala Science Congress, January 2015
- Academic Auditor for the Kerala Technological University (2015-19)
- Invited to the Academic Audit of Kalashalingam University prior to UGC peer team visit (13-14th Oct 2017)
- Reviewer of papers for the Journal of the Institution of Engineers India (springer), 2018
- Expert member nominated by KTU the for selection of PhD scholars under NDF at Rajeev Gandhi Institute of Technology and TKM College of Engineering. (2018)
- Academic Auditor for the Kerala Technological University at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology (Govt Engg College) Kottayam (2019)
- Doctoral Committee Member of KTU research scholar at College of Engineering, Trivandrum (2019)
- Keynote address during National Seminar on ‘Recent Trends in Infrastructure Development and Disaster Management’, Baselios Mathews II College of Engineering, Sasthamkotta, Kollam, 4th Feb 2019
- Delivered an invited technical talk on ‘Emerging Technologies for Transport Infrastructure Development’ during the Inauguration of Civil Engineering Association at College of Engineering Kidangoor, Kottayam, 30th August 2019
- Resource person for the Engineers meet at Collectorate Alapuzha (Nov 2019)
- Chaired a technical session of International Conference FISAT on 15/05/2021
Membership in Professional Bodies
- Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India)
- Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Life member of the Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE)
- Life member of the Institute of Urban Transport (India)
- Member of the Indian Roads Congress (IRC)
- Life Member – Association Food Scientists and Technologists (India)
- Life Member- Indian Geotechnical Society
PUBLICATIONS
International Journals:
- Methodology for Modelling Highly Heterogeneous Traffic Flow. Journal of Transportation Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Washington, USA (July 2005)
- Influence of Bus Stops on Flow Characteristics of Mixed Traffic. Journal of Transportation Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Washington, USA (August 2005)
- Development of New PCU Values and Effect of Length of Passenger Cars on PCU, International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, Volume 2 (December 2013)
- Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete Pavement Slabs with Contraction Joints, International Journal of Structural Analysis and Design, Vol. 1, Issue 2 (June 2014)
- Theoretical Study on Constitutive Modelling of Frozen Solis, International Journal of Applied Research, Vol.1, Issue 13, Part I (December 2015)
- Experimental Investigation on Shear Strength of Artificially Frozen C-Phi Soil, International Journal of Advanced Research in Engineering and Technology (IJARET) Volume 10, Issue 3, (May-June 2019, pp. 47-56)
- Water Quality and Performance Assessment of Porous Asphalt Mix Modified Using Charcoal Powder, Journal of Sustainable Engineering: Proceeding Series, Vol. 1, Number 2, July-December 2019
- Finite Element Analysis of Artificially Frozen C-Phi Soil, Gouri Mohan L., K.K. Abdul Rasheed, Reebu Zachariah Koshy, International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, ISSN: 2277-3878 (online), Volume-8, Issue-4, November 2019, pp 12722-12728
- Development of Soil Freezing System and Laboratory Test Set up for C- Phi Soil,
Gouri Mohan L., K. K. Abdul Rasheed and Reebu Zachariah Koshy, Studies in Indian Place Names (UGC Care Journal) ISSN: 2394-3114 Vol-40-Issue-71-March -2020, pp 1033-1040
- Eipe P.G.I., Joseph A., Koshy R.Z. (2022) Experimental and Numerical Studies on FRC for Use in Dowel-Jointed Rigid Pavements. In: Laishram B., Tawalare A. (eds) Recent Advancements in Civil Engineering. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 172. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4396-5_69
National Journals:
- A Study of Headway Distribution of Heterogeneous Traffic on Urban Arterials. Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India), November 2003
- Simulation of Heterogeneous Traffic to Derive Capacity and Service Volume Standards for Urban Roads. Journal of the Indian Roads Congress, October 2004
International Conference:
- Energy Efficient Transportation: Problems and Prospects. International Seminar on Sustainable Development in Road Transport, (Organised by IRC in association with The Permanent International Association of Road Congresses, Paris), November 2001
- Modelling Stochasticity of Heterogeneous Traffic. Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Uncertainty Modelling and Analysis, College Park, Maryland, USA, September 2003
- A Simulation Analysis of the Effect of Bus Stops on Quality of Traffic Flow. International Conference on Transportation Systems Planning and Operations (TANSPO 2004), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, February 2004
- Modelling Heterogeneous Traffic Flow on Urban Roads. International Conference on Transportation Systems, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, April 2002
- Prediction of Longitudinal Dispersion Coefficient in Natural Channels using Advanced Data Mining Techniques. 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Science and Technology, SCET, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, March 2010
- Analysing the Options for Bus and Motorised Two-Wheeler Traffic Management on Urban Roads using Simulation. 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Science and technology, SCET, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, March 2010
- Analysis of Traffic Flow Characteristics on Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Lanes. International Conference on Recent Innovations in Technology, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology (Government Engineering College), Kottayam, Kerala, February 2011
- Developing Capacity and Service Volume Standards for Exclusive Motorcycle Lanes (EML). International Conference on Advances in Materials and Techniques for Infrastructure Development (AMTID 2011) NIT Calicut, June 2011
- Numerical Modelling of Rigid Pavement using Finite Element Method. International Conference on Advances in Materials and Techniques for Infrastructure Development (AMTID 2011) NIT Calicut, June 2011
- Effect of Buses and Motorcycles Sharing a Lane- A Microscopic Simulation study. International Conference on Modelling and Simulation in Civil Engineering, TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, December 2011
- Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete Pavement Slabs with Contraction Joints. International Conference on Advances in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, (ACSEE) Zurich, Switzerland, 12-13 October, 2013
- Development of new PCU values and effect of length of passenger cars on PCU, International Conference on Energy and Environment-2013 (ICEE 2013) Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kottayam, Kerala, India, 12th to 14th December 2013
- Research on Strength of Frozen Soils: A Review, 3rd International Conference on Modeling and Simulation in Civil Engineering, 9th to 12th December 2015, TKM College of Engineering, Kollam
- Water Quality and Performance Assessment of Porous Asphalt Mix Modified Using Charcoal Powder, 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Engineering Practices, Univetrsitas Sam Ratulangi, Manado, Indonesia, September 2019
- Application of water hyacinth as potential raw material for sustainable construction materials: a review, ICMSC, International Conference on Modeling and Simulation in Civil Engineering, TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, December 2019
National Conference:
- Study of Traffic Flow Characteristics Using Computer Simulation. National Seminar on Road Transportation in India: Emerging Trends and Techniques, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, September 2002
- Energy Based Approach to Sustainable Transportation Planning. National Seminar on Sustainable Habitat, T. K. M. College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala, August 2003 Driver Behaviour Study on Selected Urban Locations of National Highway– 47 National Conference on Focusing on Advances in Civil Engineering, T. K. M. College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala, February 2007
- Passenger Car Units for Divided Roads using Simulated Traffic Data. National Conference on Recent Innovations in Technology, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology (Government Engineering College), Kottayam, Kerala, March 2009
- Study of Thermal Behaviour of Pavements and its Effect on the Environment. 24th Kerala Science Congress, Jan 29-31, 2012
- Development of Passenger Car Unit (PCU) Values for Signalized Intersection Design. National Conference on Innovations in Engineering and Technology, Musaliar College of Engineering and Technology, Pathanamthitta, May 2013
- Artificial Ground Freezing: A Promising Technology for Better Underground Transportation Systems in Kerala. Kerala Technological Congress (KETCON-2017 Energy Technologies), Paper No. 478, MACE Kothamangalam, Jan 2017
Contact Details
Ph : +91-9847875555
Email : hodce@saintgits.org, reebu.zk@saintgits.org, reebukoshy@yahoo.com