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{{Infobox scientist<br />
| name = Chandra R. Bhat<br />
| image = <br />
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| birth_place = Madras, India<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1964}}<br />
| fields = Civil engineering, Transportation research, Travel demand modeling, Econometrics, Discrete choice analysis<br />
| workplaces = University of Texas at Austin<br />
| alma_mater = IIT Madras (B.Tech.), Virginia Tech (M.S.), Northwestern University (Ph.D.)<br />
| known_for = Travel behavior modeling, Travel demand modeling, Discrete choice analysis, Consumer choice analysis, Activity-based modeling<br />
| awards = W.N. Carey Jr. Distinguished Service Award (TRB), Theodore M. Matson Memorial Award (ITE), Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award (ASCE), Humboldt Research Award, CUTC Lifetime Achievement Award<br />
}}<br />
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'''Chandra R. Bhat''' (born 1964) is an Indian-American civil engineer, transportation researcher, and academic known for the development of econometric methods for consumer choice analysis, travel behavior and demand modeling, discrete choice analysis, and transportation systems planning. He is the University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Joe J. King Chair in Engineering at the [[University of Texas at Austin]]. He is currently a faculty member in the civil, architectural, and environmental engineering department, as well as an adjunct faculty member in the economics department.<ref name="King"/><ref name="Home"/><br />
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==Education==<br />
Bhat was born in [[Madras]], India in 1964. Bhat earned a B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from the [[IIT Madras|Indian Institute of Technology Madras]] in 1985 (where his father was professor of electrical and communications engineering), an M.S. in Transportation Engineering from [[Virginia Tech|Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]] in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from [[Northwestern University]] in 1991.<ref name="TheWeek"/><ref name="Education"/><br />
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==Career==<br />
After completing his doctorate under the supervision of Frank Koppelman, Bhat served as a research assistant professor and lecturer at Northwestern University’s Transportation Center and later as assistant professor at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] (1993–1997). He joined The University of Texas at Austin in 1997, where he has held positions as professor (2005–), associate department chair (2001–2007), and director of the Center for Transportation Research (2012–2018).<ref name="CTRDir"/> In 2023, he was named director of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Center for Understanding Future Travel Behavior and Demand.<ref name="UTCenter"/><ref name="DailyTexan"/><br />
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Bhat has been cited as a transportation expert in national media, including [[The New York Times]],<ref name="NYT2024"/> the [[Washington Post]],<ref name="WashPost2012"/> and the public radio program ''Marketplace'',<ref name="Marketplace2022"/> as well as in [[Newsweek]],<ref name="Newsweek2024"/> NPR’s KUT Austin,<ref name="KUT2014"/> and the [[Houston Chronicle]].<ref name="HC2023"/><br />
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== Awards and honors ==<br />
Bhat has received national and international awards. In 2024, he received the W.N. Carey Jr. Distinguished Service Award from the Transportation Research Board (TRB).<ref name="CareyAward"/> Two years earlier, he received the Theodore M. Matson Memorial Award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE).<ref name="ITE2022Matson"/> In 2017, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC).<ref name="CUTC2017"/> He was named a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Madras in 2016,<ref name="IITMNews"/> and received the Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 2015.<ref name="ASCE"/> He was awarded the Humboldt Research Award in 2013 by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,<ref name="Humboldt"/> and received the S.S. Steinberg Award in 2009 from the American Road and Transportation Builders Association.<ref name="ENRArtba2010"/> The Eno Center for Transportation listed him among the ''Top 10 Transportation Thought Leaders in Academia'' in 2016,<ref name="Eno2016"/> and he was profiled in the November–December 2013 issue of ''TR News''.<ref name="TRNews289"/> He was also featured as one of six scientists by ''The Week'' magazine in the article ''The Indian Scientific Invasion''.<ref name="TheWeek"/> From 2019 to 2024, Bhat was listed among the most-cited researchers in transportation and logistics in the standardized citation indicators compiled by Ioannidis and colleagues.<ref name="Ioannidis"/><br />
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==Research Contributions==<br />
Bhat has published over 280 peer-reviewed journal articles.<ref name="clarivate"/> One of his chief substantive contributions is the development of the Comprehensive Econometric Microsimulator for Daily Activity Patterns (CEMDAP) and Comprehensive Econometric Microsimulator for SocioEconomics, Landuse, and Transportation Systems (CEMSELTS), both agent-based simulation platforms that have been used for transportation and mobility planning in the [[New York metropolitan area]].<ref name="NYMTC"/> His methodological contributions include proposing the use of quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) techniques for the simulation estimation of discrete choice models, later recognized by Daniel McFadden in his Nobel Prize Lecture and accompanying 2001 ''American Economic Review'' article.<ref name="McFaddenNobel"/> He also introduced the multiple discrete-continuous extreme value (MDCEV) model for consumer choice, which was highlighted by Hensher and Rose as a foundational contribution in the field.<ref name="Hensher"/><br />
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== Professional service ==<br />
Bhat served as the President of the Council of University Transportation Centers (2020–2021)<ref name="CUTCNEWS"/> and as President of the ASCE Transportation and Development Institute (T&DI).<ref name="ASCEBoG"/> He is the Editor-in-Chief of ''Transportation Research Part B: Methodological''.<ref name="TRPartB"/><br />
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==Selected publications==<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=Bhat |first1=Chandra R. |title=Quasi-random maximum simulated likelihood estimation of the mixed multinomial logit model |journal=Transportation Research Part B: Methodological |date=2001 |volume=35 |issue=7 |pages=677–693 |doi=10.1016/S0191-2615(00)00014-X |bibcode=2001TRPB...35..677B }}<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=Bhat |first1=Chandra R. |title=A multiple discrete–continuous extreme value model: Formulation and application to discretionary time-use decisions |journal=Transportation Research Part B: Methodological |date=2005 |volume=39 |issue=8 |pages=679–707 |doi=10.1016/j.trb.2004.08.003 |bibcode=2005TRPB...39..679B }}<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=Bhat |first1=Chandra R. |last2=Sener |first2=Ipek N. |last3=Eluru |first3=Naveen |title=A flexible spatially dependent discrete choice model: Formulation and application to teenagers' weekday recreational activity participation |journal=Transportation Research Part B: Methodological |date=2010 |volume=44 |issue=8–9 |pages=903–921 |doi=10.1016/j.trb.2010.02.003 |bibcode=2010TRPB...44..903B }}<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=Bhat |first1=Chandra R. |last2=Lavieri |first2=Patrícia S. |title=A new mixed MNP model accommodating a variety of dependent non-normal coefficient distributions |journal=Theory and Decision |date=2018 |volume=84 |issue=2 |pages=239–275 |doi=10.1007/s11238-017-9638-4}}<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=Mannering |first1=Fred |last2=Bhat |first2=Chandra R. |last3=Shankar |first3=Venky |last4=Abdel-Aty |first4=Mohamed |title=Big data, traditional data and the tradeoffs between prediction and causality in highway-safety analysis |journal=Analytic Methods in Accident Research |date=2020 |volume=25 |article-number=100113 |doi=10.1016/j.amar.2020.100113}}<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=Mannering |first1=Fred L. |last2=Bhat |first2=Chandra R. |title=Analytic methods in accident research: Methodological frontier and future directions |journal=Analytic Methods in Accident Research |date=2014 |volume=1 |pages=1–22 |doi=10.1016/j.amar.2013.09.001}}<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=Bhat |first1=Chandra R. |last2=Guo |first2=Jessica Y. |title=A comprehensive analysis of built environment characteristics on household residential choice and auto ownership levels |journal=Transportation Research Part B: Methodological |date=2007 |volume=41 |issue=5 |pages=506–526 |doi=10.1016/j.trb.2005.12.005 |bibcode=2007TRPB...41..506B }}<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=Bhat |first1=Chandra R. |title=An Endogenous Segmentation Mode Choice Model with an Application to Intercity Travel |journal=Transportation Science |date=1997 |volume=31 |pages=34–48 |doi=10.1287/trsc.31.1.34}}<br />
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==Books and edited volumes==<br />
* Bhat, C.R. (2014). ''The Composite Marginal Likelihood (CML) Inference Approach with Applications to Discrete and Mixed Dependent Variable Models''. ''Foundations and Trends in Econometrics'', '''7(1)'''. Now Publishers, Boston. [https://doi.org/10.1561/0800000022]<br />
* Bhat, C.R. (ed.) (2021). ''International Conference on Transportation and Development 2021: Transportation Operations, Technologies, and Safety''. Transportation & Development Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA.<br />
* Bhat, C.R. (ed.) (2021). ''International Conference on Transportation and Development 2021: Transportation Planning and Development''. Transportation & Development Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA.<br />
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==References==<br />
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<ref name="Education">{{cite web |title=Biography – Chandra R. Bhat, Director (former) CTR |publisher=Center for Transportation Research, UT Austin |url=https://ctr.utexas.edu/people/researchers/chandra-r-bhat |access-date=27 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="TRNews289">{{cite journal | title = Profile: Chandra R. Bhat featured in TR News No. 289 (Nov–Dec 2013) | journal = TR News | publisher = Transportation Research Board, National Academies | date = November–December 2013 | pages = see “Profiles” section<br />
| url = https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/trnews/trnews289.pdf | access-date = 27 August 2025<br />
}}</ref><br />
<ref name="UTCenter">{{cite news |title=New Transportation Research Center to Focus on Travel Behavior and Demand |work=UT Austin News |date=28 February 2023 |url=https://news.utexas.edu/2023/02/28/new-transportation-research-center-to-focus-on-travel-behavior-and-demand |access-date=27 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="DailyTexan">{{cite news |title=UT researchers launch new transportation center to analyze travel behavior, safety |work=The Daily Texan |date=22 March 2023 |url=https://thedailytexan.com/2023/03/22/ut-researchers-launch-new-transportation-center-to-analyze-travel-behavior-safety/ |access-date=27 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="CareyAward">{{cite web |title=2024 W.N. Carey Jr. Distinguished Service Award |publisher=Transportation Research Board / National Academies |date=2024 |url=https://www.nationalacademies.org/docs/D5295F8710D6BCB8557AFF9F904DD93444846F8C99D5 |website=National Academies |access-date=27 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="clarivate">{{cite web |title=Web of Science - Chandra Bhat |url=https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/AAC-6965-2019<br />
|website=Web of Science |access-date=6 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="NYMTC">{{cite web |title =Regional Transportation Plan Page C30<br />
|url=https://www.nymtc.org/movingforward/pdfs/app_c.pdf |website=New York Metropolitan Transportation Council |access-date=4 August 2024}}</ref><br />
<ref name="CTRDir">{{cite news |title=Cockrell School names new director for Center for Transportation |work=Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin |date=5 September 2012 |url=https://cockrell.utexas.edu/news/cockrell-school-names-new-director-for-center-for-transportation |access-date=27 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="IITMNews">{{cite news |title=Chandra Bhat – 2016 Distinguished Alumnus IIT Madras |work=College of Engineering News, UT Austin |date=3 February 2016 |url=https://caee.utexas.edu/news/657-bhat-iit |access-date=27 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="McFaddenNobel">{{cite journal | last = McFadden | first = Daniel | title = Economic Choices <br />
| journal = American Economic Review | volume = 91 | issue = 3 | pages = 351–378 | year = 2001 | doi = 10.1257/aer.91.3.351 | url = https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/mcfadden-lecture.pdf <br />
| access-date = 27 August 2025 | quote = Nobel Prize Lecture delivered in Stockholm, December 2000; published in AER (2001)}}</ref><br />
<ref name="Hensher">{{cite book |last=Hensher|first=David A.|author2=John M. Rose |title=Choice Modeling: Foundational Contributions ISBN 978-0-85793-727-8|publisher=Edward Elgar|year=2011}}</ref><br />
<ref name="ITE2022Matson">{{cite press release | title = Chandra R. Bhat receives the 2022 Theodore M. Matson Memorial Award | publisher = Institute of Transportation Engineers | date = 2 August 2022<br />
| url = https://www.ite.org/ITEORG/assets/File/Awards/2022/MATSON%202022%20PR_BHAT%20final.pdf<br />
| access-date = 27 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="CUTC2017">{{cite news |title=Chandra Bhat – CUTC Lifetime Achievement Award<br />
|work=Cockrell School of Engineering, UT Austin News |date=10 January 2017<br />
|url=https://www.caee.utexas.edu/news/783-bhatcutc |access-date=28 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="CUTCNEWS">{{cite news |title=Chandra Bhat Named President of the Council of University Transportation Centers |work=Cockrell School of Engineering News, UT Austin |date=29 June 2020 |url=https://cockrell.utexas.edu/news/chandra-bhat-named-president-of-the-council-of-university-transportation-centers/ |access-date=27 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="ASCE">{{cite web |title=2015 Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award |url=https://www.asce.org/career-growth/awards-and-honors/frank-m-masters-transportation-engineering-award/frank-m-masters-transportation-engineering-award-past-award-winners |website=ASCE |access-date=4 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="ASCEBoG">{{cite web |title=Chandra R. Bhat elected to T&DI Board of Governors; to serve as President |publisher=ASCE |date=11 May 2021 |url=https://www.asce.org/communities/institutes-and-technical-groups/transportation-and-development-institute/news/bhat-appointed-to-four-year-position-on-tdi-board-of-governors |access-date=27 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="Humboldt">{{cite web |title=Professor Chandra Bhat Wins Humboldt Research Award <br />
|work=Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin <br />
|date=6 May 2013 <br />
|url=https://cockrell.utexas.edu/news/professor-chandra-bhat-wins-humboldt-research-award/ <br />
|access-date=27 August 2025}}; {{cite web |title=2013 Humboldt Research Award – Chandra Bhat <br />
|publisher=Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung |url=https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/vernetzen/recherche-im-humboldt-netzwerk?tx_solr%5Bq%5D=Chandra+Bhat |access-date=27 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="Eno2016">{{cite web |title=The Lists: Top 10 Transportation Thought Leaders in Academia<br />
|website=Eno Center for Transportation |date=11 May 2016<br />
|url=https://enotrans.org/article/lists-top-10-transportation-thought-leaders-academia/<br />
|access-date=27 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="TRPartB">{{cite web |title=Editorial Board – Transportation Research Part B: Methodological |publisher=Elsevier |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/transportation-research-part-b-methodological/about/editorial-board |access-date=27 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="TheWeek">{{cite news |title=The Indian scientific invasion |work=The Week<br />
|date=24 December 2017 |url=https://www.theweek.in/theweek/specials/the-indian-scientific-invasion.html<br />
|access-date=27 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="HC2023">{{cite news |last=Begley |first=Dug<br />
|title=Houston's Black neighborhoods have a disproportionate number of pedestrian crashes, UT study finds |work=Houston Chronicle |date=29 July 2023 |url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/transportation/article/pedestrian-crashes-black-neighborhoods-disparity-18257977.php |access-date=27 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="Newsweek2024">{{cite news |title=Texas Democrat pushes for high-speed rail line between three major cities |work=Newsweek |date=21 November 2024 |url=https://www.newsweek.com/texas-democrat-pushes-high-speed-rail-line-between-three-major-cities-1989323 |access-date=27 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="KUT2014">{{cite news |title=How Driverless Cars Could Change the Way We Travel<br />
|work=KUT 90.5 (NPR Austin) |date=10 March 2014<br />
|url=https://www.kut.org/austin/2014-03-10/how-driverless-cars-could-change-the-way-we-travel<br />
|access-date=27 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="ENRArtba2010">{{cite news |title=UT Professor Earns ARTBA's Research & Education Award |work=Engineering News-Record |date=1 May 2010<br />
|url=https://www.enr.com/articles/24504-ut-professor-earns-artba-8217-s-research-amp-education-award |access-date=28 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="WashPost2012">{{cite news|last=Sachs |first=Andrea<br />
|title=Toll roads toss the coins for electronic methods |newspaper=The Washington Post<br />
|date=16 November 2012<br />
|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/toll-roads-toss-the-coins-for-electronic-methods/2012/11/15/fa241d6c-29f9-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html |access-date=28 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="NYT2024">{{cite news |last=Fadulu |first=Lola<br />
|title=What to Do if Violence Breaks Out on a Train or Bus |work=The New York Times<br />
|date=22 March 2024<br />
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/us/public-transit-safety-subway-guide.html<br />
|access-date=27 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="Marketplace2022">{{cite news |title=Public transit could get a boost from high gas prices |work=Marketplace |date=10 March 2022<br />
|url=https://www.marketplace.org/2022/03/10/public-transit-could-get-a-boost-from-high-gas-prices/<br />
|access-date=28 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="Ioannidis">{{cite book |title=Updated Science-Wide Author Databases of Standardized Citation Indicators |chapter-url=https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6 |publisher=Elsevier |author=Ioannidis, JPA |chapter=Bibliometrics |year=2023 |volume=6 |doi=10.17632/btchxktzyw.6 |access-date=4 August 2025}}</ref><br />
<ref name="King">{{Cite web <br />
|author=<!-- not stated -->|date=2025|access-date=2 November 2025<br />
|title=Chandra Bhat (faculty directory)<br />
|url=https://www.caee.utexas.edu/people/faculty/faculty-directory/bhat<br />
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250809190514/https://www.caee.utexas.edu/people/faculty/faculty-directory/bhat<br />
|archive-date=9 August 2025|url-status=live|language=en-US|location=Austin<br />
|publisher=University of Texas at Austin: Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering; Cockrell School of Engineering|via=utexas.edu}}</ref><br />
<ref name="Home">{{Cite web <br />
|author=<!-- not stated -->|date=2025|access-date=2 November 2025<br />
|title=Chandra Bhat vita<br />
|url=https://www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/bhat/home.html<br />
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250921202725/https://www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/bhat/home.html<br />
|archive-date=21 September 2025|url-status=live|language=en-US|location=Austin<br />
|publisher=University of Texas at Austin: Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering; Cockrell School of Engineering|via=utexas.edu}}</ref><br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/bhat/home.html University Home Page]<br />
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