Shripad Vaikar

Senior Transportation Planner/Infrastructure

Practice Areas

Shripad is one of the leading transport planners in India and has worked on many central and state government funded mobility planning projects over the past 15 years. His extensive expertise with four stage modeling for macro level studies and traffic simulation assignments in micro simulation landed him as a Head of Traffic and Transport Planning area for India office. With a passion to use modeling to enable sustainable mobility, Shripad works with his staff to solve traffic issues ranging from micro to macro level with the innovative use of technology.

Experience

Shripad has technical expertise in solving mobility related issues in urban areas with the help of traffic forecasting, modeling and simulation tools. His approach involves scientifically planning future mobility networks for all type of road users including public transport, private vehicles and pedestrians aiming for least environmental impacts. Over the past 15 years he has worked for projects in US, UK and India. He has diversified knowledge in VISUM, TransCad, VISSIM, Vistro, Viswalk, Synchro analysis software.

Engagements


Certified Road Safety Auditor

Education

M.S., Transport Planning and Policy, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
M. Plan, Urban Transport Planning, SPA Delhi
B. Arch, Abhinav College, Pune University

Awards

  • Commonwealth Scholarship Award by British High Commission, Department for International Development (DFID) to purse MS Transport Planning and Policy in UK.

  • MPSC, Dy. Collector cadre runner up 2019

  • BRICs–ABC Country Programme Award by Korean Government to visit South Korea

  • National Award for Bombay Metro Station Design competition – Ghatkopar Metro Station design, 3rd National Prize by Bombay Metro One Ltd.

  • National Award for Textile Mill Land Redevelopment and Redesign Project – Textile mill land, Solapur, India