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At SCULPT Lab, we believe that research becomes real when it meets the street - and that cities are not problems to be solved, but systems to be understood. Our projects don’t start with pre-determined answers; our aim is to ensure they begin with better questions and end with a solution that can be implementable. In the end, it’s not just about publishing papers, but about making planning a little wiser, mobility a little fairer, and cities a little kinder.
Each of the projects below has a story to tell - one you’ll hear best over a cup of coffee with the PI and the students who walked the dust, smelled the risk, and felt the tension of real-world complexity. These aren’t just projects - they’re lived journeys. And like all good journeys, they leave behind better questions, stronger minds, and wiser cities.
Active Funded Projects (Ongoing and Completed Research)
Active Funded Projects (Ongoing and Completed Research)
1) Research on Multimodal Transportation Planning and Traffic Management during Mahakumbh Mela
Ministry of Urban Development, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh
Status: ✅ Completed (2025)
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH)
Status: 🔄 In Progress (2023-2026)
Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
Funding: 21.25 Lakhs INR + Ph.D. Student Fellowship
US-India Collaborative Research Programme Funded by Department of Science and Technology (DST) and National Science Foundation (NSF) - NM-ICPS Program
Status: 🔄 In Progress (2023-2026)
Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
Funding: 19.92 Lakhs INR
Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India and Austrian Federal Ministry of Education
Status: ✅ Completed (2025)
Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
Funding: 7.12 Lakhs INR
6) Developing Implementable PCU Units for Indian National Highways
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH)
🔄 In Progress (2024-2027)
Funding: 20.25 Lakhs INR
Role: Co-PI
7) Urban Commercial Freight Demand Models for Last-Mile Delivery Activity
Volvo Research and Education Foundation (VREF)
Status: ✅ Completed (2025)
Role: PI
8) Developing Immersive Virtual Environments for Behavioural Response Modelling
IIT BHU Seed Grant
🔄 In Progress (2024-2026)
Funding: 10.00 Lakhs INR
Role: PI
Other Ongoing Projects (Data-Driven Explorations)
Other Ongoing Projects (Data-Driven Explorations)
Electric Mobility
Electric Mobility
Adoption, Charging Infrastructure Planning, Routing, Performance
B2C Freight
B2C Freight
E-commerce, Last-mile Delivery Innovations, Consumer Shifts
Unique Mobility Needs
Unique Mobility Needs
People with Disabilities, Vulnerable Road Users, Traffic Safety, Domestic Tourism, Long Distance Travel etc.
Completed Projects (Prior Works with Specific Deliverables)
Completed Projects (Prior Works with Specific Deliverables)
Operational Planning of Novel Delivery Alternatives for Last-Mile Delivery
Operational Planning of Novel Delivery Alternatives for Last-Mile Delivery
Goal: Novel delivery technologies (e.g., autonomous delivery, self-service) for last-mile freight deliveries is a valuable step toward low-carbon logistics. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has put a global spotlight on delivery alternatives for contactless package deliveries, and tremendous market interest has been pushing developers to provide large-scale operations.
Freight (Trip) Generation Models for Facility Planning
Freight (Trip) Generation Models for Facility Planning
Goal: Develop freight generation (FG) and freight trip generation (FTG) models for assisting city planning agencies, while incorporating freight transportation in the overall planning process. Project findings will be useful in developing policy guidelines for freight-specific investments, operational strategies, freight movement regulations, and taxation policies for Indian cities.
Addressing the Aggregation Issues of Freight Demand Model Systems
Addressing the Aggregation Issues of Freight Demand Model Systems
Goal: Freight demand model systems typically employ 'a priori' aggregation layers for dividing establishments into hypothetically complementary groups with relatively homogeneous patterns in freight generation. Although an attractive and popular notion, the assumption of homogeneity within aggregation layers such as industry classification system is reductive in nature and requires research investigations. This project examines this hypothesis and explores the possibility of a data-driven segmentation schemes as both spatial and industrial aggregation layers.
Negative Externalities of Freight Transport
Negative Externalities of Freight Transport
Goal: Concerns over transport energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions have lately prompted significant attention towards vehicle ownership patterns and the distributional implications of climate mitigation policies. This project analyzed the determinants of freight transport emissions in India based on a fleet segmentation approach and subsequently decomposed the expenditure patterns of establishments in an attempt to internalize the external cost of freight movements.
Analysing the Gendered Mobility Needs in India
Analysing the Gendered Mobility Needs in India
Goal: This study conducted a rigorous work-place based travel behavior survey to understand the gendered mobility needs in India and decompose the main determinants behind travel satisfaction and potential mitigation measures to improve gender-based disadvantages in transport paradigm.
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